Steem Basic Income

Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.

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Contests, Giveaways and Raffles!

In this edition of our contest updates you’ll find quite a variety of ways to get SBI shares. There’s everything from answering a simple question to taking photos and going for walks. Steem may be down, but Steemians are still having a blast earning and giving away Steem basic income shares.

Please try to think about your submissions and reward these great hosts with quality submissions. If you enjoy somebody’s contest format, check their feed for more, and follow them so that you don’t have to wait for our listing to come out!

If you want to see more contests before we mention them, check the #steembasicincome tag in Trending or New and see what's happening! We also have a contests channel in our new Discord server.

Each contest may have its own rules, so please read the contest post thoroughly before entering.

1. https://steemit.com/dosdudes/@dosdudes/sbi-contest-5-stress-win-1-share-of-steembasicincome
   Share your secrets of stress management with @dosdudes and be rewarded with an entry in an SBI random draw.

2. https://steemit.com/contest/@erikklok/tour-de-france-contest-stage-21-champs-elysees
   Tour de France fans cycle over to this post and guess who wins stage 21. The first one to get it right wins a share of SBI.

3. https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@dosdudes/sbi-contest-4-discord-win-1-share-of-steembasicincome
   Another great contest by @dosdudes.

4. https://steemit.com/contest/@ntowl/whats-the-best-movie-made-from-the-worst-book-tell-me-for-a-chance-at-sbi
   My very own SBI contest. Ever seen a great movie made from a really bad book? Tell me about it for a shot at 2 SBI shares.

5. https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@elleok/steem-basic-income-72h-raffle-13-win-lifetime-upvotes-on-all-your-posts-once-more-increased-prize-pool
   @elleok’s raffle just keeps growing! Get there fast though as there’s only about 48 hours left.

6. https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@sanderjansenart/steembasicincome-give-away-contest
   @sanderjansenart doodled something...and they want you to tell them about it. Read the whole post and comment as directed for a chance to win.

7. https://steemit.com/contest/@bengy/steemitbasicincomegiveawayhobbies-nq4gbm3coc
   Share your hobbies in the comments for a chance at SBI shares.

8. https://steemit.com/wednesdaywalk/@tattoodjay/wednesday-walk-battery-park-city-by-the-water-plus-steem-basic-income-share-giveaway
   Take a walk and take some pictures. Be sure to read the details to see what qualifies to enter this contest by @tattoodjay

9. https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@heyimsnuffles/giveaway-bitcoin-litecoin-ethereum-guess-the-close-for-sbi
   Into crypto? Read @heyimsnuffles’ post to learn more and see how to win an SBI share.

10. https://steemit.com/contest/@braaiboy/wysjouvleis-and-win-steembasicincome
    Guess what’s cookin! Whatever it is, it looks yummy. Read @braaiboy’s post to see the details and how to win.

Check out these recurring contests too!

Quite a few industrious Steemians run contests regularly. Here is a list of the ones we know about at the moment. All of these have been running for months so you can count on their posted schedule.

Be sure to check each account and look for the contest name as the links change each week. Also remember to read the full contest description as the rules and prize values sometimes change.

@freewritehouse

The folks over at @freewritehouse run three contests each week. All of them are designed to encourage community engagement and highlight other's work. Besides the prizes from the @freewritehouse account, they are always interested in hearing from anyone who will sponsor a contest and so they can offer even bigger prizes.

A Favorite Freewrite You Read contest runs every Tuesday for just 24 hours. You need to read some freewrites written (you can read this post to see what they are), and then comment on the contest posts about which ones you liked best and why. If they choose your comment you win shares of SBI.

Recommend your Favorite Freewrite Poem is a poetry version of the Favorite Freewrite contest and it runs every Friday. Make a comment about a freewrite poem you loved and you could win SBI shares. But be quick! When Friday is over, so is the contest - until the next week that is.

We-Write is a new challenge they’ve just started in the last few weeks. It runs every other Wednesday (next one is July 25th) with a prize of 4 SBI divided among winners.

Finish the Story Contest

This weekly contest is run by @f3nix. He recently launched the @bananafish account which now hosts the contest which runs every Wednesday. He posts the beginning of a story, and you finish it. Then you post your complete story for everyone to read. The winner, as chosen by the @bananafish god, wins SBI shares. The important thing to know about this contest is that it's an ongoing creativity workshop, so if you miss one deadline you can participate in the next.

Paying it Forward

In the spirit of helping new Steemians, this contest focuses on curating great content and is run by @thedarkhorse. It runs weekly on Mondays and asks that you find two "High Quality Original Content Blog Posts" to recommend for curation. Four judges decide which recommendations were the best and multiple winners get SBI shares. Follow @thedarkhorse to see the latest contest post and read it for full details.

ZapFic Writing Contest

Zapfic

Like super short stories? Try writing one in 232 characters or fewer for your chance to win SBI in this contest run by @felt.buzz. Every Wednesday he posts a new prompt to use for your very short story. Be sure to read the rules on this one as you'll need a Zappl account to qualify, but your stories will be automatically posted to Steem too.

NOTE: Contest images used with permission from their owners.

How to get on the recurring contest list

Do you run a regular contest that you’d like to see in our recurring contest section? We have some simple criteria you need to have to be included:

SBI shares must be part of the prizes given out.
Contest needs to be running 5 weeks or 10 contests on a consistent schedule, whichever comes first.

If you think your contest qualifies let us know in the comments or on our Discord channel and we’ll check it out.

Instead of trying to be thoroughly comprehensive (and then end up not publishing) like we have before, we have only included the most recent contests (skipping duplicates). If we missed yours, feel free to share it in the comments for our readers to find, and to stop by our Discord server to post it in the contests channel.

Enrollment

If you want to get involved, or to increase the share of basic income that you receive, enrollment is pretty straightforward:

Just send 1 STEEM to @steembasicincome. Include the name of a Steemian to sponsor in the transaction memo (preceded by @). You and the person you sponsor will each receive 1 share in the program. You can sponsor any active Steemian, it does not have to be a current member.

If you're unclear, please check out our full transaction memo guidelines and then let us know if you have any questions.
https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/steem-basic-income-new-transaction-memo-guidelines

The official currency for enrollment is STEEM. We are not currently accept SBD for enrollments.

Writer Bio

This Contest listing was prepared for us by @ntowl!

@ntowl is a freelance copywriter who plans on being a best-selling author. Her writing is all over the web, but most of it belongs to other people who paid her to write it. She recently she launched an editing service for Steem blogs. You can read how it works in this post:
https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@ntowl/how-to-use-ntowl-s-steem-blog-editing-service

Upcoming Steem Creators Conference!

Come meet us and many other talented Steemians in Toronto this Fall!

We had a great experience at the #steemcreators conference in April and we are excited for what is in store this September! This is a fantastic opportunity to network with other Steemians and learn skills to improve your Steem performance.

Purchase your conference tickets Here and don't forget to book your place for the Steem Creator's Concert after-hours event featuring @wolfnworbeikood and many other amazing creators!!!
We would love to see you there!

Here is @josephsavage's presentation on Steem Basic Income from the last conference:

Questions?

Please read our recently published FAQ. Most questions are addressed in our FAQ or in the additional resources that it suggests. If you still have questions, ask in the comments section or join us in our discord channel. To review your share counts, we recently introduced our new SBI Member Lookup Tool.