The shares purchased give you a Lifetime Daily Upvote based on your total shares. This is for the owners 50% of the total voting power.

50% of the voting power goes towards the minnow building program and will be used to grow minnows.

Now I think we need to talk to @hitmeasap about the program to bump you to Minnow right away. You give back to the community so much and know you deserve the support of others. 24 steem is nothing and if they agree to do this I will kick in the first 5 steem (@thedarkhorse account).