Steem Basic Income

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

Support from Members

Thank you all for your support! Upvotes that we receive from members are an important component to continue delivering a sustainable basic income!

Here is a visualization of our incoming votes for the last week.

_{source: http://www.steemreports.com/incoming-votes-info/?account=steembasicincome&days=7}

5.4% of our total value received was from our low 1.22% self-voting. 14.22% of our sustainability coverage is provided by author rewards. Ideally it would be at least 33% (or high enough that our self-vote percentage is higher than our percentage of total value received from that self-vote.)

As would be expected with the changes in the reward pool, our sustainability coverage from upvotes has declined, while our coverage from curation rewards has gone up. Our downtime has muted the impact of rising curation rewards, but they will climb significantly once we reach one full week of continuous operations again.

Upvoting Bonuses

Each time we receive author rewards for a post or comment by any official SBI account, we check the value that each member added to the reward. That value will be added to the member's balance, with a multiplier of 1.10x. This essentially works as a 'vote bank', allowing you to bank your extra voting power that you're not using, and then have those rshares returned to your own content.

For example, if you upvote this update by $0.10, then $0.11 would be added to your balance when the post pays out. You are rewarded directly for your contribution to the long-term sustainability of the program! You do still have to be enrolled in @steembasicincome to receive this benefit.

This is a great way to boost the Steem Power for program accounts. If your program (or account) does any self-voting to build a permanent SP base, please consider upvoting @steembasicincome each day instead.

(Official SBI Accounts: @steembasicincome, @sbi2, @sbi3, @sbi4, @sbi5, @sbi6, @sbi7, @sbi8, @sbi9, @sbi10, @sbi-booster. Our automated system dynamically selects the best account to deliver your upvote at the time of upvote delivery.)

Steady Growth

We currently have 4525 members that have posted or commented within the last 28 days. Members that are not posting continue to accrue their pending upvote balance, and upvotes will resume automatically when they return. There are currently 258198 subscribed units in the program, up from 254572 last time we published this report.

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Sustainability Coverage and VP Management

Sustainability Coverage is currently at 78.02% and rshares reward rate is 616,329,871 per SBI unit per day.

In addition to regularly upvoting our updates, you can help increase the sustainability coverage (and thus the rshares reward rate on regular units) by delegating to @steembasicincome.
For more information, please read Into the Heart of Sustainability.

Enrollment

If you want to get involved, or to increase your subscription level, 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 unit in the program. You can sponsor any active Steemian, it does not have to be a current member.

In effect, when you enroll, you are 'curating' another account to receive ongoing support, and at the same time receiving curation rewards - an equal level of ongoing support. 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/busy/@steembasicincome/transaction-memo-guidelines

The official currency for enrollment is STEEM. If we choose to accept SBD without refunding it, you do not receive extra value for it. Enrollments are processed automatically every 144 minutes.

Questions about Steem Basic Income?

Most questions are addressed in our FAQ or in these helpful resources. If you still have questions, ask in the comments section or join us in our discord channel.