Steem Basic Income
Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.
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[Editor note: Speaking of great value... you can now check your SBI levels on-chain by including !sbi status in your comment or post. We're still tweaking the language, but the calculations seem to be accurate.]
Contests, Giveaways and Raffles!
We’re into the swing of the holidays in many parts of the world. I’ve seen a few of the recurring contests mention they may take a break over the next few weeks to enjoy them. So if you don’t see an updated contest, check out their previous one to see if it mentions they are on break and when they will be back. We’ll be doing a check on them after the new year just to be sure everyone is up and running again too, but in the meantime it’s worth looking up your favorites to see what they are doing.
As for our regular listing, it’s full of good stuff. You can help give ideas to the Steem Monsters team, you can share your favorite travel photos or what you last cooked on the grill. There’s also some easy to enter ones where all you need to do is comment or ask questions. Super easy to get SBI shares this week!
Remember if you want your contest listed, the best way to get noticed is to post it in the contest channel in the SBI Discord server.
Please try to think about your submissions and reward these great hosts with quality submissions. If you enjoy somebody’s contest format, check their feed for more, and follow them so you don’t have to wait for our listing to come out!
If you want to see more contests before we mention them, check the #steembasicincome tag in Trending or New and see what's happening! We also have a contests channel in our Discord server.
Each contest may have its own rules, so please read the contest post thoroughly before entering.
Today’s featured contests
We have an ever growing list of recurring contests after the numbered list below. One of our members suggested we have a special section featuring some of the recurring contests each time. We agreed and here it is!
What is it?
Inspired by a game she played with the kids at her niece's birthday one year, this game is straightforward. She posts an image, and you guess what it is. The rules are simple enough, guess right and win an SBI share.
Thank you economy
Every week you can visit the Thank You Economy contest and tag someone who has helped you. When you do, both of you could win SBI shares from the ever growing prize pool!
And now for the contest list
https://steemit.com/steemmonsters/@sparkesy43/celebrating-steem-monsters-season-4-with-a-contest-no-upvote-no-resteem-no-follow-required
There are just a couple of days left to give input on a new combat type in Steem Monsters and win some SBI.https://steemit.com/contest/@lightcaptured/travel-photo-contest-edition-1
Share your travel photos according to the theme and you could win SBI shares.https://steemit.com/contest/@pundito/euro-jackpot-contest-17-win-up-to-32-sbi-and-receive-a-part-of-the-steem-bounty
The Steemit-style Euro lottery is open again.https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@cryptictruth/free-upvote-for-life-contest-svvjdgpy
No one has guessed yet! Check it out and comment soon before the contest ends.https://steemit.com/deutsch/@germansailor/weihnachtsspecial-50-x-steembasicincome-anteile-zu-vergeben
50 SBI shares up for grabs for people in the German community.https://steemit.com/busy/@hairyfairy/so-short-story-77-words-sbi-contest-kratky-pribeh-soutez-o-sbi
Write a short 77 word story using the prompts for your chance to win.https://steemit.com/free/@exator/trashtosteem-sbi-giveaway-2
Support a clean planet and enter this raffle for SBI shares.https://steemit.com/teamsouthafrica/@braaiboy/meatymondays-17-dec-2018-win-upvotes-steembasicincome-and-incinboost-shares
Meaty Monday’s needs your barbecue images! Share what you’ve made for your chance at the 9 SBI prize pot.https://steemit.com/dpoll/@braaiboy/your-favourite-social-media-platform
What is your favorite social media platform? Share your opinion for a chance at some SBI shares.https://steemit.com/partiko/@d00k13/ask-me-anything-contest--best-questions-win-steembasicincome--dragging-you-up-with-me-week-16-2grtis6d
Ask anything, but make it interesting and you might win SBI shares.
Check out these recurring contests too!
Quite a few industrious Steemians run contests regularly. Here is a list of the ones we know about at the moment. All of these have been running for months so you can count on their posted schedule.
Be sure to check each account and look for the contest name as the links change each week. Also remember to read the full contest description as the rules and prize values sometimes change.
The folks over at 
A Favorite Freewrite You Read contest runs every Tuesday for just 24 hours. You need to read some freewrites written (you can read this post to see what they are), and then comment on the contest posts about which ones you liked best and why. If they choose your comment you win shares of SBI.
Recommend your Favorite Freewrite Poem is a poetry version of the Favorite Freewrite contest and it runs every Friday. Make a comment about a freewrite poem you loved and you could win SBI shares. But be quick! When Friday is over, so is the contest - until the next week that is.
We-Write is a new challenge where two writers create a single story using the freewrite prompt. It runs every other Wednesday with a prize of 4 SBI divided among winners.
Finish the Story Contest is run by 
Mizu No Oto is founded on the belief that every image has a haiku. It’s an 
Paying it Forward
In the spirit of helping new Steemians, this contest focuses on curating great content and is run by 
ZapFic Writing Contest
Like super short stories? Try writing one in 232 characters or fewer for your chance to win SBI in this contest run by 
Steemit World Map Challenge
Travel the world with your fellow Steemians in the #swmchallenge run by 
Caption Contest
Help celebrate digital art by creating creative captions for the week’s selected picture. Read all the rules carefully to be sure your entry qualifies for the SBI prizes.
Punday Monday
From the creator:
What is Punday?
Punday is the best day. It's the day we post a topic upon which you are invited to pun in the comments for a chance at SBI shares. You get to read all the incredible puns, and you can try your hand at puns, and you can just bask in the warmth and love that punsters offer. I am your Puntender, and I serve hot puncakes with Mapun Syrpun.
Pirate Sunday
Come help tell the adventures of Captain K, a fictional character with a quite a history! To enter, read the current post and previous stories, then write your own version of what “piratey” things he gets up to next.
What is it?
Inspired by a game she played with the kids at her niece's birthday one year, this game is straightforward. She posts an image, and you guess what it is. The rules are simple enough, guess right and win an SBI share.
Thank you economy
Every week you can visit the Thank You Economy contest and tag someone who has helped you. When you do, both of you could win SBI shares from the ever growing prize pool!
What does today mean to you?
Here’s the description from the contest creator:
This is a weekly contests to giveaway SBI shares to the winner(s) - the best "one out of six" from "qualified #ccc entries"
The theme of your post-entry is to -
- present a personal story,
- illustrated with at least one relevant photograph taken by you, the contestant,
- about the day or the days surrounding it.
It is set to be a weekly contest on Wednesdays, although, on some special occasions, it will be pre-announced due to a special day such as a holiday.
So, far, this contest has inspired some wonderful memories in these entries.
72 Hour Raffle
Entering is easy. Just make a comment for one entry in the random draw. Upvoting and resteeming gets you two more entries. One winner is guaranteed an SBI share, and if many people enter there could be more! So spread the word.
SBI & GRC Contest
Love free stuff + crypto + science? This contest is for you! Simply resteem this post, upvote, comment and follow me to enroll. And get a chance to win 1 SBI Share and 50 GRC (Gridcoin).
Steemexplorer’s Daily
A winner is selected at random from each daily contest and a share awarded to the respective winner with a results post showing the wallet transaction from 
The comments that people can leave to gain entry can be anything useful, as little as teaching something helpful with markdown format, their thoughts on certain upvote services or apps like partiko for example, things like 
Free Raffle For SBI + CSB
This contest runs every Monday with a prize of one SBI share. It’s easy to enter, just repeat the weekly phrase in the comments and you’re done!
An easy and fun way to win SBI shares 🔖 (con traducción en español)
Your upvote counts! 👍🏼 An anticipatory and strategic game where the best estimate wins 🔮
Just guess the final payout - but watch out for some simple rules.
An easy and fun way to win SBI shares 🔖 (con traducción en español)
Your recommendation and upvote counts! 📜👍🏼 An anticipatory and strategic game where the best estimate wins 🔮
Guess the final payout and share a post you recommend to read - but watch out for some simple rules.
Wednesday Walk
Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of and share a post on a Wednesday with the #wednesdyawalk tag for a chance to receive an SBI share
NOTE: Contest images used with permission from their owners.
How to get on the recurring contest list
Do you run a regular contest that you’d like to see in our recurring contest section? We have some simple criteria you need to have to be included:
- SBI shares must be part of the prizes given out.
- Contest needs to be running 5 weeks or 10 contests on a consistent schedule, whichever comes first.
If you think your contest qualifies let us know in the comments or on our Discord channel and we’ll check it out.
Instead of trying to be thoroughly comprehensive (and then end up not publishing) like we have before, we have only included the most recent contests (skipping duplicates). If we missed yours, feel free to share it in the comments for our readers to find, and to stop by our Discord server to post it in the contests channel.
Enrollment
If you want to get involved, or to increase the share of basic income that you receive, enrollment is pretty straightforward:
Just send 1 STEEM to
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/steem-basic-income-updated-transaction-memo-guidelines
The official currency for enrollment is STEEM. We are not currently accept SBD for enrollments. Please allow up to 7 days for your enrollment to be processed.
Writer Bio
This Contest listing was prepared for us by 
https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@ntowl/how-to-use-ntowl-s-steem-blog-editing-service
SBI Writer's Group Needs Your Help
A few spots are available for interested writers to join the SBI writer's group.
You do not already have to be a member of Steem Basic Income to take up this opportunity, but a basic working knowledge of SBI would help.
Here are some examples of previous interviews created by members of the SBI writers group. As you can see from these examples, we let this lapse for a while, but we are ready to take it to the next level!
Interview with @dynamicgreentk
Participating writers receive payment in SBI units, along with a writing credit on articles and updates published on
Full information about the program is available here. If you are interested, please direct message me (
Questions?
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