PSA: The Switch to STEEM / SBD Payouts for Steemit.com Post Rewards! (as of v0.14.2)

in steemit •  8 years ago  (edited)

It seems that without anyone announcing we've slipped into a new payout regime for post rewards on the STEEM network. This post will get you up to speed on what's going on.

What does this mean for the the writers and artists here?

STEEM Backed Dollar supply is over > 3% of the STEEM market cap currently!

Meaning...

Payout rewards have shifted to roughly 20% STEEM / 30% SBD / 50% SP on posts.

These STEEM payouts for posts aren't reflected in the wallet as of yet!

Meaning that when you check your Author Reward it won't show up...

Steem v0.14.2 Patch Notes Info

Steem Dollar Stability

Added functionality to aid in the stability of Steem Dollars. Starting when Steem Dollars are 2% of the market cap, a portional of content rewards will be awarded as Steem instead of Steem Dollars. The rate at which Steem Dollars are printed is 50% of the reward at 2% or less market cap and 0% at 5% or more market cap, linearly extrapolated from 2%-5% market cap. So, at 3.5% market cap content rewards will be 25% Steem Dollars, 25% Steem, and 50% Steem Power. source: https://github.com/steemit/steem/releases/tag/v0.14.2

Thoughts

Hopefully we don't see a tank in STEEM prices due to people dumping their tokens onto the markets but I think we should likely prepare for such an event. I know personally I've been powering up the STEEM I get for post payouts and I urge others to do the same. Not only do you get awesome interest on SP as well as SBD but it also powers up your votes and allows your votes to really weigh in.

Please don't take this as doom calling, it isn't. We have whales trying to exit currently and that's why the market is low. I'm not giving financial advice nor telling anyone to buy / sell STEEM or SBD merely expressing what I think. :)

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Nice one. I just posted encouraging this actually i think Steem Power is the way forward.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Good work! I'm just throwing the STEEM in my account. My votes will be able to feed people here eventually.

That is my mission. It feels good to recieve but it feels better to give.

I saw this briefly, but only really recognized it when I saw steem appear without being sent to me or having converted it myself. I figured this may be the case, but thanks for confirming @klye

No problem sir! Figured I'd let everyone know!

As a newb, these kind of posts that help provide a platform/economy analysis are very helpful - thank you! Reblogging & LONG STEEM!

Thank you very much for the reblog. Glad this post helps give you some info!

Well said and thanks for the info i didnt knw about this

Yeah not very many people were realizing this.. Had to make the announcement!

So that's why I got some mysterious steem in my account! I was trying to work out where on earth it had come from! Thanks @klye!

Cheers man

Good stuff man!

Thanks for your post!

You are welcome!

Steemit is still too opaque!!!

Good post and catch. These Devs and their Ninja tactics on features! Thanks!

No worries! figured I'd help spread the word to minimize confusion!

Thanks for letting us know:)

No problem sir!

Thanks for the information @kyle !

No worries!

I was wondering where that Steem came from... thanks for the info!

You are very welcome!

@kyle upped 100%
thank you for writing this !
and thank you for the tips!

Glad you found something of value in it. :)

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Is this the Black Swan event?

Good posts, thanks for the heads up because I had no clue.

Cool. I'd be happy to see the SBD discontinued, actually. I just don't have any use for it and it makes things seem to serious to newcomers. I think Steemit would be less intimidating if it felt like points in a game or play-money at first. The word "dollar" triggers people in funny ways. For some people, it may be comforting but I think it's intimidating to many others and presents a psychological barrier of sorts... guess I'll do a video on this subject later. 'Guessing it'll be a fairly controversial opinion around here.

I sort of look at the Steem Dollar as a Wooden Nickel sort of deal. It's our own currency. :)

Thanks for sharing! I had noticed the distribution of payout seems to be different already... even if it isn't showing up in our wallets yet.

Thank you very much for the information

I have followed you! Perhaps you could follow me. Defininately keeping an eye on your post. There are be many reblogs from me!

Steem On Kyle!

Thanks for the heads up klye,.

No worries madam