The Daily Qurator #226
Welcome to the 226th Daily Edition of the Daily Qurator. Below you will find some awesome members of @qurator that worked hard to post some good quality content for all you awesome Steemians to enjoy!
The @qurator project was created to help give Steemians some extra exposure and awesome upvotes currently worth around $0.04 - $11.76!
Note: some of you have been curated twice since the start of the daily qurator and some have been curated only once. As the Daily Qurator is gaining fame with every passing day, many new steemians are asking/will ask to join us. So, expect to see posts from new users for now. When the opportunity arises, posts from older users will be curated once again
| @williamysee | coffee |
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Coffee Series 4- 3 Ways To Hand-Pick The Right Coffee Beans For You
In the previous post we talked about How to Know Your Coffee Is Over or Under Extraction? then you know how to identify under or over extraction according to the coffee taste. This post, we are gonna to talk about how to choose the right coffee bean for you, your own preference. There is no such thing called "which coffee bean is the best?", is all about your own preference
Do you know the roasts of your coffee? Do you think the darker the roast the more caffeine you're getting? Hmm, nope! Head over to read all about coffee in this post; and make sure to check the previous coffee posts by @williamsyee.
| @capatazche | steemstem |
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The Influential Mind Made Me Think Number 14: On Crowd Wisdom
In the last editions of "The Influential Mind Made Me Think" I have been discussing how hard it is to have an independent opinion of something. There are so many things around us that shape our decision making that I believe a true independent decision or choice is impossible to make. Anyone's decision making is further impaired/influenced if before sharing his/her decision, he/she is made aware of the decisions of others
Have you ever heard of “crowd wisdom”? Well if you haven't you may want to read this post by @capatazche; where a clear explanation is given. Are you an independent thinker; or do you kind of go along with the majority?
| @cryptospreads | bitcoin |
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Politicians Accepting Bitcoin
The US is gearing up for midterm elections in November. For obvious reasons... this election will be critical. Interestingly, a solid amount of the candidates are accepting Bitcoin for campaign donations which is made possible by applications like Bitpay. This isn't an exclusive list since more politicians will likely jump on the Bitcoin train after they see the success of others.
Cyrptocurrency and politics? Really? YES... it's true!! See which politicians will be accepting cryptocurrency for his or her next election. Maybe one of your congressman or senators is one of them.
| @mister-omortson | pinkyandspiky |
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I Drew A Comic For The First Time
Recently I found a blog of the artist @organduo. There are a lot of funny drawings. I decided to participate in this game. It is all the more wonderful to participate in the contest... For the first time I draw a comic. I'll tell you ... it's very difficult. However, I really liked it, and probably I will try to do something else
If you're like me you have no artistic talent what-so-ever, but @mister-omortson attempted his first try at drawing a comic thanks to a contest he saw on steemit. Not bad for a first time! Much better than I would have or could have done. Head over to see how he did it.
| @johnycrypto | crypto |
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What You Need To Ask When You Are Researching A Cryptocurrency
You probably see people talking about coins but always saying DYOR (Do your own research), this is very important if you are investing, don't blindly follow people calls, you will always depend from another person work and research when that person stop sharing what you gonna do?
What are the seven topics @johnycrypto is recommending you research before buying cryptocurrency? If you're thinking of investing into a new crypto, or even an existing one, make sure to read this post to see what you're looking for.
NEWS
We will be sending out some comments with the Tier 0 upvote. We don't think many of the members are aware that it is really easy to move up to a higher tier by showing Qurator some support. Let's hope some of the older members can move up in tiers and we can make the whole community a bit stronger. =)
Tier Updates Finalized
Tier updates are out and finalized. You can check out the post HERE.
The short version is that Tier 1 and Tier 2 requirements have changed a bit. Please review them.
A separate account has been created and 26 000 SP has been delegated to it. @qurator-tier-1-2 will be upvoting Tier 1 and Tier 2 members.
A large amount of SP was undelegated from @qurator to accommodate for the new account, BUT the upvote weights have been adjust so they should balance out. Just have to see how the Voting Power holds up with the big change.
Qurator Details
 | For more details go check out our witness page and consider voting for us. |
 | Qurator 3.0 is finally here! There has been quite a few changes. Go and check it out. |
 | Check out our Discord Channel and visit the steemit-challenges tab. There you will find an updated list of all the daily/weeklychallenges. Thanks to @stresskiller! |
Competitions!
We host weekly Photo and Food competitions. Click on the images below to view the posts and cast your votes to the nominated Qurites. You can also comment #nominatein either of the posts to stand a chance to be featured in the competitions.
| Photo Friday! | Tasty Tuesday! |
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| Toss up Thursday | Biweekly |
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 | Free for all post-promotional competition with a twist! |
With all the flag wars and drama on Steemit, we decided to go the opposite route. Make love, not war! We don't take part in flag wars, instead we have upvote wars! We highly suggest checking out our latest competition and think of your ideal strategy to win that awesome Tier 5 prize. =)
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@qustodian support bot
For those who would like some extra upvotes from the Qurator project can send SBD and their link to @qustodian. The bot will upvote your post to the value of 2.65 times the amount of SBD you send it.
Send around 0.5SBD and your link to receive upvotes.
Any extra SBD will be refunded!
Upvotes limited to one every 24 hours.
Invest in @qustodian
For those who would like to invest some Steem Power. @qustodian pays out 90% of all the SBD sent to the account. Minimum of 50SP to invest, daily payouts in SBD.
Delegations links can be found below. Please remember to leave at least 50SP in your account!
Delegation links for @qustodian (NOT @QURATOR):
| 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 1000 | 5000 |
Steemauto Curation Trail
We suggest not following the trail with 100%, steemauto has 2 ways of following a trail, static or scaled. We suggest using SCALED instead of static since static votes can add up quickly and drain VP very fast. We suggest using scaled and then maybe around 25%.
Steemauto can show us who is currently on the trail and at what percentage. Looking forward to see more Qurites joining the trail in the near future! We also reward the team players and there might be a nice surprize for a lucky trailer. =P
Steemauto guide and registration info
Want bigger upvotes? Check out Tiers and how to gain access to them
| TIER | Requirements | Perks |
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 | Basic 4 STEEM registration fee. Upvote for life from Qurator Project | Basic upvote for life from Qurator. |
 | Delegate 100SP OR Upvote 7 times a week on any @qurator posts with a minimum upvote of at least $0.03 OR pay 1 Steem per month subscription.** | Tier 1 upvotes |
 | Delegate 200SP OR Upvote 7 times a week on any @qurator posts with a minimum upvote of at least $0.05 OR pay the 2 Steem per month subscription. | Tier 2 upvotes |
 | Delegate 300SP | Tier 3 upvotes |
 | Delegate 400SP | Tier 4 upvotes |
 | Delegate 500SP | Tier 5 upvotes |
Elite Tiers
| TIER | Requirements | Perks |
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 | Delegate 1000SP+ to @qurator | Copper weight - T5 x 2 |
 | Delegate 1500SP+ to @qurator | Silver weight - T5 x 3 |
 | Delegate 2000SP+ to @qurator | Gold weight - T5 x 4 |
 | Delegate 2500SP+ to @qurator | Platinum weight - T5 x 5 |
 | Delegate 5000SP+ to @qurator | Diamond weight - T5 x 12 + Rotational Resteems |
Delegation links:
| 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 1000 | 1500 | 2000 | 2500 | 5000 |
After you click the link you will have to check the value, click next and then enter your steemit NAME and Private Active Key to delegate. Please remember to leave at least 50SP in your account!
| Members | 1313 | +3 |
| Steem Power | 4520 | |
| Delegated | 78 477 | -209 |
| Voting Power | 90.35% | |
| Upvote Weight T0(@qurator-tier-0) | 2% | $0.04 |
| Upvote Weight T1(@qurator-tier-1-2) | 1.5% | $0.09 |
| Upvote Weight T2 (@qurator-tier-1-2) | 3.5% | $0.18 |
| Upvote Weight T3 | 3% | $0.54 |
| Upvote Weight T4 | 4.5% | $0.81 |
| Upvote Weight T5 | 6% | $0.99 |
| Copper (T5 x 2) | 12% | $1.98 |
| Silver (T5 x 3) | 18% | $2.97 |
| Gold (T5 x 4) | 24% | $3.96 |
| Platinum (T5 x 5) | 30% | $4.95 |
| Diamond (T5 x 12) | 72% | $11.76 |
| Witness rank | 77 |
Median Steem Price when Upvote values were calculated: $3.24 (+6.93)
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I feel honored to be mentioned in this post, thank you so much!
You're welcome! Keep up the good work :)
@qurator thank you for featuring my post! Respect all you do for the Steemit community.
You're very welcome :) and thank you for the support!
Congratulations @qurator!
Your post was mentioned in the Steemit Hit Parade in the following category:
When registering, do you need to put your name in the memo? With or without an @? Are you only able to register yourself?
It can be with and without @. It makes no difference :)
You can also send registration fee for someone. Then you put their user name in the memo.
I love how @mister-omortson managed to draw a funny comic for the first time! If he continues, his skill level will grow exponentially. Thank you for mentioning my #pinkyandspiky drawing contest. This week participants have to draw piglet Pinky and hedghog Spiky driving a tractor. Here are the details if someone wants to join: https://busy.org/@organduo/pinky-and-spiky-drawing-contest-week-5-win-sbd-and-laugh-more#@izaid/re-organduo-pinky-and-spiky-drawing-contest-week-5-win-sbd-and-laugh-more-20180428t022732398z