Update:

I'm standing 110% behind what I said and to show everyone that the payment has been done internally, I've copied out and summarized the part of the code that does exactly that.

Now - this is as far as I will go to proof that I'm a man of my word and when I say that I'm paying for the v ote I bought myself, that I mean it!

try {
    /*
    let asset = SBD or STEEM
    let weight = custom weight
    let author = custom author
    let permlink = custom permlink
    */

    
    // Get Post
    let post = await get_post(author, permlink)

    // Get curation
    let curation = calc_curation(post.created)

    // Calc the ratio to pay based on USD price of STEEM & SBD - 2nd argument is the wanted ROI (0% in this case), which is undefined in a normal bid-round
    let ratio = calc_ratio(curation, 0)

    // Get account data from blockchain
    let account = await get_account('smartsteem')

    // Calculate current votingpower
    let vp = await calc_voting_power('smartsteem', account)

    // Calculate current vote_value
    let vote_value = await calc_vote_value_from_account('smartsteem', vp, weight, 'SBD', dynamic.reward_fund, dynamic.reward_fund_claims, dynamic.sbd_price, account)

    // How much the vote is going to cost
    ratio = vote_value / ratio

    // Vote on Post
    let result = await vote(author, permlink, weight, true, 'smartsteem')
    if (result) {

      // Paying out delegators
      for (let delegator of await get_all_delegators()) {

        // Custom share for delegators based on profit_share - 0.95 are the 95% profit shares
        let share = (ratio * 0.95) * (delegator.profit_shares / 100)

        // Either round on 3 dec after comma or 8 based on if the amount >= 0.001 SBD / STEEM
        share = share >= 0.001 ? round(share) : __round(share, 8)

        // If asset is SBD => add to sbd pending profit
        if (asset === 'SBD') {
          delegator.pending_profit += share
          total_pending_profit += share

        // If asset is STEEM => add to steem pending profit
        } else {
          delegator.pending_profit_steem += share
          total_pending_profit_steem += share
        }

        // Saving delegator
        await delegator.save()
      }
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error)
  }

The sponsor payout is then updated for https://smartsteem.com/delegators

You're the biggest vulture there is on steem, Hive account@abh12345.

Let me tell you something: I will not give into bullying and false facts.

I paid for my bought vote internally - which was added to the delegators revenue inside the database.

There was no time to send it as transfer because blocks were not synced due to node-problems.

One of the positive features of this rule is to allow curators to be able to pick up some rewards on the post - a large early vote increases the author rewards percentage substantially, by reducing the curation rewards percentage.

That is YOUR reason why we introduced the curation limit - not mine or smartsteems!

The 30 minute rule is to make sure that bidders can calculate accordingly. Otherwise some users will bid right at the end of a bid-round and destroy the whole round for everyone else.

The code for the manual vote is smart enough to calculate that an earlier vote results in a higher vote-price due to less curation.

Which means: delegators received even more money from the manual vote.

To everyone else who reads this:

Are you really going to support a bully who is straight up disliking the fact that I'm running the most caring voting-service & bid-bot?

Smartsteem is paying out 95% of the profit. (smartsteem.com/delegators).

Payouts are once per day - on the blockchain. (https://steemd.com/@smartsteem)

The rest is happening behind the scenes in a database.

I have never and will never give myself free votes from smartsteem without payout delegators.

PS: I will remove the self vote before the end of the payout (but only if there are no downvotes which I need to counter). This vote is simply for visibility reasons.