I had a full day today, with guests till well in the afternoon. Then, I took the time to check and add up my crypto investments. I felt no push to do it after the guests left, but it's something I do every month and didn't want to skip it.
And here we are at the posting part. You can imagine I am "operating" on reserve energy supplies, however long they last, lol. So, this might be a shorter post, but still, maybe a good read, especially if you aren't aware of the news regarding the first LeoAds distribution.
I know there have been speculations before, but this time we probably have a date set for the first distribution of LeoAds rewards, and that is today, January 1st. As Khal mentioned, they will go mainly to stakeholders, not evergreen content creators.
To be honest, I haven't heard Khal personally mention the date, but I haven't checked all the recent communications yet. Assuming the payments would be made from the LeoAds account, we'd need to see some movements here, and so far the latest actions are not so recent:
The transactions above still show an accumulation of LEO by the LeoAds account, so not yet a distribution.
Anyway, it will come when it will come. And we will see how much it will be (it is directly proportional to our LEO stake if we have been actively using it to vote via INLEO).
Something else I found out from a recent post of the Leo team:
This is the FIRST TIME ever that Hive posts are rewarded beyond the 7 day payout window. You could have posted an article from leofinance.io 2 years ago and if it's receiving 2,000 views per month, you'd be getting paid for that article every single month... forever (as long as it keeps getting views).
So... do we have the threshold for evergreen content? 2,000 views per month... Oh well, I doubt there are more than a few, if any posts that reach that target in the history of Leofinance/INLEO, and it will probably incite a different type of content creation and marketing for those who will aim to get these evergreen rewards. Or at least I imagine that's the thinking behind the number.
I believe we will be talking about this some more, but for now, it's enough since I don't know if that number was dropped in the post as an example, to see some reactions, or if it's the actual threshold. And I don't know how the team came to that number.
Also, today is HPUD. I will keep participating in them but with the minimum powerups of 10 HIVE, which is what I did today too. Happy Powerup Day!