Earning cryptocurrency for up-voting or 'liking' content
Today is a bit of a milestone for me as I am set to pass 2000 Steem Power earned solely by up-voting content on Steem. For me, this is huge and when I started out here, I would never have expected to reach this total.
More on that soon but this video has a bit of a party feel to it and will do as the image for the post. Two minutes of a Mascleta that I watched (listened to) the other day. The iphone speaker doesn't really deal with the deafening noise too well - you'll have to come over and feel it yourself!
And this happens twice a day for two weeks!
2000 Steem Power earned in Curation Rewards
At the end of June 2017, I wrote this post, basically poo-pooing the idea that Curation Rewards were set to make you anything worthwhile as a small account.
https://steemit.com/curation/@abh12345/curation-rewards-forget-about-it-minnows
On the 29th June 2017, I owned 966 Steem Power and earned almost 2.7 SP in curation rewards for the previous 7 days. Nothing worth cheering about from a STEEM/$ perspective, but I'm glad I documented this because now I can really see the value in holding and growing the amount of Steem Power owned.
29th June 2017
Twenty months have passed since the post linked above, and now with around 18k active SP, I am looking at around 37-40 SP earned each week via Curation Rewards with Steemworld showing 164 SP for the previous 30 days. What a difference!
It's fairly obvious really, in a PoS environment, that the more (SP) you own, the more you will earn via CR, but until you see this compounding interest type thing in action over a fair period of time, it's sometimes hard to picture. That was the case for me anyway :)
And actually, I could have earned more than this total if I had played a little dirtier. Self-voting own content prior to the first vote bigger than your own, or checking the wallets of the larger bid-bots and voting blindly on (at times shocking) content are two methods to boost CR.
I also trail @c-cubed, @utopian-io, and more recently, @tenkminnows via Steemauto. And while some disagree with trails, signing up to one doesn't actually return good Curation Rewards, but hopefully you are supporting the right mission / decent content.
Auto-voting has as well had a reasonable say in my 2000 SP earned via curation. Manual curators (god bless them all) are sacrificing CR for holding on to whatever 'proof of brain' there is left on Steem. I'm not going to worry too much about not reading everything my account votes on though, especially when I look into the data for some accounts. Steemworld tells me I voted for 296 accounts last week, and none of these votes purposely landed before a bid-bot vote.
I guess the message of this post is to just keep going :) Don't worry too much about CRs to start with, but perhaps make a note each month and then hopefully after a year or two you can compare back and feel pretty chuffed with the growth attained.
Have a good weekend all
Asher
For those that are kindly interested: I've not yet had a call from the recruitment company with regards to my potentially amended start-date but have heard from 'other sources' that things could well be put on hold. What a fking bummer :(
Thats really good brother. Here is mine after a year.
No where near you.😁
You are a good man!
Nah, he's a good man. On the same level as you and dave, ftg and others. Im just trying to follow in the footsteps of the great leaders(like you) who helped me. Thank you brother.
Very kind and generous of you John. Hopefully your account will grow so that this and any future delegations are a small percentage of your stake - it needs to be held to return higher curation rewards, etc.
I am very humbled to wake up this morning and discover this. Thankyou just doesn't seem to cut it.
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There is some progress though at least :)
But yes, I only started to notice CRs creeping up after 10k SP and so i would just carry on as you are until that massive power up lands :D
As nice as it is to receive these rewards, has there ever been a time that curation rewards actually worked. I mean, has there ever been a time when the incentive for rewards resulted in a well curated front page. I don't think there has. There has only been differing degrees of bad, when Reddit seems to do it much better with only non-transferable karma points as a reward (which are nearly completely worthless, but not entirely if you're willing to sell your account for a small sum to astroturfers).
Well you know probably better than I do, but I'm going to go for a solid 'no' here.
Using stake clearly hasn't worked for the main Trending page on steemit.com, other sites look better though - steempeak for one as it rotates curie/c-squared content.
I wonder if something like 'claps' or 'likes', holding no monetary value, would be a better solution to the main page - not holding my breath for their appearance just yet though.
Wow @abh12345 ...
... I agree that is an impressive achievement! Well done!! Do you wonder about the split between upvoting posts vs upvoting supporting comments?
Start date put on hold? Sorry to hear about this. Are they reneging on a firm start date given to you earlier?
Thanks :)
Yes actually, I didn't mention in the post that rewarding comments will likely earn less curation than up-voting Posts in the first 10-15 minutes of their existence. You will see that the Curation Reward hunters rarely up-vote comments with any weight, unless the comment is their own of course :)
Yes, and sadly it is in my contract that if work does not start, then they are under no obligation to pay. Feeling a little frustrated at present to say the least!
Hmmm @abh12345 ...
... I don't know how you view this, but I think that is unfortunate. You and I both know of some very good "content creators" who are adding value to posts through what they put into supporting comments ...
I think the effort put in should be rewarded, just as posts are rewarded. Hard, of course, to be real precise on exactly how to weight it vs. posts, but definitely worth something. I see a lot of very good comments which never receive any "support" at all ...
For sure. Some of my posts are more about what I'm providing in the comments (data, graphs, etc) and I do see some excellent and informative comments without a vote.
Sadly though, CR is usually small in comparison, and so many choose to aim for posts with their votes.
I have just received confirmation that the contract is on hold. Now what to do?!
Very sorry to hear this @abh12345. Life is tough enough, without the added complication of unfairness/ lack of integrity, etc. ...
Well sir, for your sake, I hope other and better options present themselves very quickly!
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Separately, very sorry to hear your contract apparently is not being honored. Frustration is certainly understandable. I hope it is all favorably resolved in the very near future!
The mother F&£#&£S!! The recruitment company I mean.
Curation rewards, particularly since that last hardfork are sure worth it now even if you have a relatively low stake in the hundreds. It's free money!
Yeah, and a nice section in the contract:
Which basically tells me i'm fucked :)
Curation Rewards though, how long until I don't have to work and can live off these?! :)
Ooft, yeah. That is a swine of a line!!
Hehe, I have been wondering the same. One day dude, one day!!
Covered their arses from all kinds of pumps right there!
One day, in 2025 :)
They deserve a special pumping!!
Bring out las bombas!
hmm, I learned the word bicycle pump last year but having just checked google translate with las bombas, it's saying 'bombs'.
This is interesting because the other day I went through security at the town hall and they wanted stuff out of my bag, i mentioned la bomba as being a possible culprit. OOPS! hahaha
Vamos a bombando!! :0D
Yikes, my Spanish is quite poor. I had a Spanish teacher from Valencia. He was very good bit also quite prudish which was hilarious.
You will be a marked man!
Sounds like one of those parties I've never been to!
Being prudish in your class his luck was rather out!
So did earn more with curating than I did with writing. For you 😁 but for me also 😁.
Curating is still an undervalued way of inreasing your SP!
Keep it going Asher! You are steady on your way to the next level. Will support you all the way with my small tiny upvotes!
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Some really enjoy the curation game and take it quite seriously, I think it's good to have an eye on things but also try not to slip to the dark side so much too.
Thanks for the support, next stop 5k! :)
2000 curation is a lot. I think I am around 0.7SP a day. I took a hit when I stopped self-voting, but I am over the addiction now and I feel better. Shamefully, I still use bid buying services. I don't know if 'proof of brain' rules out bots cause I guess computers and AI are brains even if they are better or worse than mine.
Cheers. You write some of the most thought-provoking stuff on $steem and definitely deserve every SP you earned.
Yeah it feels like a huge amount for just clicking a button (or having a bot do it for me).
Self-votes will help as you can usually time them perfectly (by checking your auto votes received and under-cutting them), but yeah, I'd rather use that vote elsewhere still.
Thanks for the comment, I don't feel my content is great - certainly not written that well but occasionally the topics could be interesting to some. Cheers!
I currently earn about 10 SP each week. My active SP is about 4400 SP. I autovote a handful of people whose content I'm very familiar with. I sometimes change my vote afterwards to give them a much bigger vote if they come up with something particularly good. Otherwise I manually curate. I do self-upvote at about 14-15 minutes but I don't think that's particularly dirty a thing to do. Oh, and I use @ocdb, too which has had the effect of adding maybe 3-4 SP to my weekly curation rewards.
It would be so sweet to be able to earn, say 10 SP per day simply by curating when STEEM is at $15 a few years down the road. That's like earning a living by reading stuff that you like. :) But I'm afraid a stable STEEM price in the double digits will be further in the future than that. It would take a monthly active users numbering in the tens or hundreds of millions with their attention effectively monetized and/or hundreds or thousands games or other type of paid content creating a organic i.e. non-speculative demand for STEEM.
This will reset/kill any curation for the old and new vote - just making sure :)
In the grand scheme of things it isn't, carry on :)
I agree that this sort of daily income is years down the line, but not impossible though. One Clash of clans would be a good start, and I don't think we'd need many of these to send STEEM flying.
I know. When I change my vote, I do it for the user I'm voting, not for myself.
Clash of Clans had been downloaded 500 million times by October 2018 according to Wikipedia. A Clash of Clans on the Steem blockchain would send STEEM flying but only if onboarding were made super easy.
For sure. The account created at the time with a Claimed Account token would be ideal. Not impossible, I'm waiting for this day :)
On a good note, you at least have some mind numbing booming and exploding to hear every day for two weeks twice a day. I hope you have ear plugs, and nose sulfur filters. ;-}
It does add and compound pretty good actually when you look at it. I have been on steemit now about 18 months over-all SP curation earned was 47SP, that breaks down to just a little of 2.6 SP a month. Now for the last 30 days SW says I made 7.34 SP, and the last 7 days 1.5 SP. So with the increase of Steem Power, (powering all those tiny curation/author rewards up), the numbers grow. I am looking forward to the day they grow a lot lot more.
About the job, well a lot of times when things like this happen, something better comes along, an offer out of the blue, or one of the others you contacted say "Hey, you still available?". Enjoy the adventure, don't let it get you down.
I was wondering why my nose was itching so much - you could have a point here!
Glad to hear you are noticing the rewards creep up, i think it does add a little more game to Steem - and I do like games :)
Thanks for the words re: the job, given me a bit of a boost in these trying times. Let's see what happens.
All Time 74.58 692.70
Last 30 Days 20.36 78.34 24.29 11.19 67.83
Last 7 Days 4.98 25.84 0.00 4.57 18.78
I don’t know if you can make out above from steemworld. But as time goes on and SP increases so does the rewards I am receiving.
Sorry to hear about the delay in the job. I hope it works out soon. Real soon
Well it's going OK with your new SP level I think - tough though as a 100% manual curator to pick-up the same as the autos.
Yeah, real bummer on the job - it looks like i'll be heading somewhere else for the time being. Thanks.
edit: By the way, you now have enough RCs to claim an account.
Fancy owning your first Account token? :)
LOL and that means what. I never heard of it before. and this token is where ?
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The token is stored with your account on the chain.
You can create it here: https://app.steemconnect.com/sign/claim_account?creator=wolfhart&fee=0.000%20STEEM&extensions=[]
It will use most of your RCs, but all other transactions are tiny compared and so you wont be 'silenced'. They will take almost 4 days to recover to 100%, then you should be able to do it again (if the RC cost has not increased).
edit: You will need to copy the link, including the []
thanks. I will save the link for future reference.
I don't think I need a new account yet. this one keeps me busy. and 4 days to recover RC is hugh.
Unless I can think of a cool account name like , ASHER ;)
First off regarding the gig...total letdown if they slam it in yer shitter. Would you get reimbursed fir the trip and all that or would you just be boned?
Second...awesome to point this out. Guessing not enough people look at this actively (I do!). While I haven’t been taking notes per day, I am aware of how it’s slowly growing and compounding. It’s kinda exciting to watch in a strange way. Help me keep on trucking.
Anyway, more people should take note and check their numbers as it might give more motivation to kick some ass here a bit more.
As always sir, great post.
Based on the call I've just had, I'm feeling rather slammed in the shitter!
They did mention partial reimbursement, nothing concrete though - like the role as it's still not 100% off or on?!
Curation is part of the Steem game, and it's good to gamify things for personal interest I think. Glad you are looking out for yours, I guess they have bolted up in recent months as you have been stacking :D
Thank you sir!
Damn. That’s harsh. Hope it somehow all works out. Ugh...
Yeah, I’ve bought a lot along the way though. Whenever I can I’ve been adding to the stacks which have helped in growth. Looking forward to when I can boast numbers like yours! 😜
This will be pretty soon looking at your SP! With some mixed and manual voting you should be looking at 130-150 SP a month?