MAP Rewarder: Distributed Rewards to Delegators for 2 December 2018 (17.2% APR)

This week's distributed profits are 0.330%, equivalent to 17.2% APR.

Our payouts this week are significantly higher than all of the bidbots listed on iSteemd. This again illustrates the advantages of having a managed fund compared to using just one algorithm.

This post will be slightly different to previous ones; am experimenting with making it shorter!

The values below that relate to the Steem blockchain are given as 7-day averages to give a fairer picture of what has happened during the whole week.

Let's lay out the different percentages to make them clearer. These are all calculated in terms of STEEM per SP.

Value of Steemit upvotes = APR 22.5% [1]
Value of Steemit rewards payouts = APR 16.7% [2]

Distributed MAPR payouts = 0.330% (APR 17.2%) [3]
Total MAPR payouts = 0.340% (APR 17.7%) [4]

[1] Theoretical maximum value of Steemit upvotes, assuming 10 full upvotes at 100% power for 7 days, averaged over 7 days and expressed as an APR.
[2] Theoretical value of Steemit upvote rewards, assuming 25% curation rewards, 50-50 split of post payouts and SBD print rate, averaged over 7 days and expressed as an APR.
[3] MAP Rewarder distributed payout sent to delegators this week; this is 85% of our gross income.
[4] Total payouts for the week, including bonus upvotes, free full upvote, free SBI and this week's distribution. This increases our overall payouts to about 90%.

Our MAPR distribution [3] is slightly higher than the average blockchain author rewards [2].

Also, the total amount MAPR has given out as distribution, prizes and upvotes, [4] is higher than [2].

Overall, I am please with the results this week, with another increase in payouts.

Profits will be paid today to SP delegators in STEEM.

Benefits of Delegating to MAP Rewarder

A new post has been published: Delegating to MAP Rewarder: Benefits for Small SP Accounts

This gives more details on the rewards distributions plus the bonus upvotes, Free Vote Friday and Free SBI Saturday.

Any further questions, please ask.

How to Delegate to MAP Rewarder

To delegate SP to MAP Rewarder, please read our Introduction document and the recent update.

You can also delegate using these links:

10 SP, 20 SP, 30 SP, 40 SP, 50 SP, 60 SP, 70 SP, 80 SP, 90 SP, 100 SP, 500 SP, 1000 SP, Other.

If you do not have spare SP to delegate, then you can still follow our Curation Trail or Fanbase on SteemAuto (or follow us on Steem Voter), and gain some higher-than-average curation rewards.

MAP Rewarder News

I have changed the layout of our numerical data; I hope the different numbers are slightly clearer!

The curator-support upvotes have all been moved to the account @rycharde. This means curators will receive more upvotes and this MAP Rewarder account can concentrate on earning income. It also means I no longer need to show the data for such upvotes, hence some of the numbers have been removed as no longer relevant.

All our percentages are calculated like-for-like based on STEEM so that these are real returns in STEEM per delegated SP (which is also priced in STEEM).

A reminder that we have two missions: to be profitable to delegators and to support our MAP Curator Trail and thereby improve the quality of posts on Steemit; 5% of income will go to supporting the Trail.

To people thinking about delegating to MAP Rewarder, I have done some analysis about the ability to upvote every undervalued post we find and, in order to do so, we can comfortably manage about 500k SP. We therefore have plenty of room to grow.

Although we do not have a referral system, inviting new delegators will increase income to existing members. The value of the bonus upvotes depends on our SP, so the higher the SP the greater those upvotes will be!

Blockchain News

I was not a fan of increasing the ceiling of SBD from 5% to 10%. I was even less of a fan when I noticed that two mechanisms kick in at 10%; one is the obvious drop in the SBD Print Rate, which you can see is still at 1%; the other is a freeze in the official blockchain price of STEEM, currently stuck at 41 cents.

This latter mechanism has always been there, but would only have been triggered in the event that the SBD debt percentage kept rising from the previous 5% to 10% - something that would be rare once the printing rate was switched off.

There is a mechanism to "convert" SBD into STEEM; this is not the same as selling on the market, but rather exchanges SBD for STEEM then burns the SBD thereby decreasing the debt burden. However, with prices as they are now, this is a marginal call - and could lose you money.

Without going into the mathematics of it, that 41 cents is the price of STEEM you would get for converting 1 SBD. As I write this, the internal market has STEEM/SBD at about 42.5 cents. With a 3.5-day delay in the conversion process, this is a risk. You would be selling STEEM at 42.5 cents and then buying it back at 41 cents; there is a profit, but price volatility could evaporate it.

I am aware that this is in place to mitigate the profitable cycle of selling STEEM in the internal market and then converting that SBD back into STEEM. However, this is also the fastest way to get the SBD debt ratio down, which is why the printing rate has dropped.

Again, we see a new facet of the Steem ecosystem; all we can do is understand it and act accordingly. I shan't mention the SBD "peg" as it would further complicate the situation.

I notice that the SBD debt ratio is currently exactly 10%, and has been a touch below this, so we may see the end of this current situation soon. Also note that the 41 cents is a rounding up and the price does change, albeit slowly, as I've seen it drift from 40.88 to the current 40.66.

At the same time, the blockchain shows an increase in rewards creation values compared to last week; this seems largely due to an increase in the reward pool. A reminder that the Steem ecosystem remains highly profitable in STEEM terms.

As mentioned in this article, the actual earning power of the Steem blockchain depends both on activity and prices; to take advantage of future price rises means earning STEEM now so that you see an uplift in your whole wallet.

I continue to seek new sources of income to supplement our current algorithms. As always, the only certainty is change.

See you next week!

Next rewards distribution will be on Sunday 9 December.

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@rycharde manages the AAKOM project and the MAP Trail.