This week's distributed profits are 0.355%, equivalent to 18.5% APR.
Total rewards to delegators, including bonuses, are 0.369%, or 19.3% APR.
This is significantly higher than every bidbot return as shown on iSteemd. The modal class for leases on Minnowbooster (now Dlease) is currently 16-18% APR. It is thus more profitable for many users to delegate to MAPR than most other sources of passive income, especially for modest delegations.
I shall monitor these, as always, and make any adjustments needed. This is the advantage of having a managed fund compared to using just one algorithm.
The values below that relate to the Steem blockchain are given as 7-day averages to give a fairer picture of what has happened during the whole week.
The week is defined as Monday to Sunday, with this payout taking place on the Monday immediately after the weekend; payouts may sometimes be on a Sunday as future rewards coming in over the last few hours are easy to check.
Let's lay out the different percentages to make them clearer. These are all calculated in terms of STEEM per SP. When comparing different passive income sources, make sure you make a fair and honest comparison in STEEM per SP so that the amount staked and the income received are in the same currency.
Value of Steemit upvotes = APR 21.4% [1]
Value of Steemit rewards payouts = APR 15.4% [2]
Distributed MAPR payouts = 0.355% (APR 18.5%) [3]
Total MAPR payouts = 0.369% (APR 19.3%) [4]
[1] Theoretical maximum value of Steem upvotes, assuming 10 full upvotes at 100% power for 7 days, averaged over 7 days and expressed as an APR.
[2] Theoretical value of Steem upvote author rewards, assuming 25% curation rewards, 50-50 split of post payouts and SBD print rate, averaged over 7 days and expressed as an APR.
[3] MAP Rewarder distributed payout sent to delegators this week; this is 85% of our gross income.
[4] Total payouts for the week, including bonus upvotes, free full upvote, free SBI and this week's distribution. This increases our overall payouts to about 90%.
Our MAPR distribution [3] is much higher than the average blockchain author rewards [2].
Also, the total amount MAPR has given out as distribution, prizes and upvotes, [4] is much higher than [2].
Overall, our returns remain good and are slowly growing, but need to adjust strategies if SBD moves well above US$1. Note that the both upvote values and author returns have nudged down compared to last week.
Profits will be paid today to SP delegators in STEEM.
Benefits of Delegating to MAP Rewarder
A new post has been published: Delegating to MAP Rewarder: Benefits for Small SP Accounts
This gives more details on the rewards distributions plus the daily bonus upvotes, free random upvotes and free SBIs.
A reminder to new delegators to check the above post as it explains the partial payouts done during the first week of delegation. Given that rewards can take up to 7 days to come through, I think it is a fair return on SP whose rewards will only be seen in the future.
Any further questions, please ask.
How to Delegate to MAP Rewarder
To delegate SP to MAP Rewarder, please read our Introduction document and the recent update.
You can also delegate using these links:
[10 SP], [20 SP], 30 SP, 40 SP, 50 SP, 60 SP, 70 SP, 80 SP, 90 SP, 100 SP, 500 SP, 1000 SP, Other.
Please note that the minimum delegation is now 30 SP. Any delegations below 30 SP will not be accepted.
Small delegations may be opened up again in the future if the overall fund increases significantly.
As described in the updated document, the distribution of MAPR benefits has been designed so that low value delegators have the potential for significantly higher benefits as a percentage of their SP; higher value delegators receive higher benefit amounts but not as high in percentage terms. The weekly distributions are, however, proportional to the delegated SP.
In order for this to work mathematically and to maintain the stability of the fund, delegations below 100 SP have been capped for some weeks now. Once a particular SP slot has been filled, we shall no longer accept delegations at that level. If and when slots free up, we shall announce it in one of these Sunday posts.
If you do not have spare SP to delegate, then you can still follow our Curation Trail or Fanbase on SteemAuto (or follow us on Steem Voter), and gain some higher-than-average curation rewards.
MAP Rewarder News
I have changed the layout of our numerical data; I hope the different numbers are slightly clearer!
The curator-support upvotes have all been moved to the account 
All our percentages are calculated like-for-like based on STEEM so that these are real returns in STEEM per delegated SP (which is also priced in STEEM).
A reminder that we have two missions: to be profitable to delegators and to support our MAP Curator Trail and thereby improve the quality of posts on Steemit; 5% of income will go to supporting the Trail.
To people thinking about delegating to MAP Rewarder, I have done some analysis about the ability to upvote every undervalued post we find and, in order to do so, we can comfortably manage about 500k SP. We therefore have plenty of room to grow.
Although we do not have a referral system, inviting new delegators will increase income to existing members. The value of the bonus upvotes depends on our SP, so the higher the SP the greater those upvotes will be!
Also, don't forget that we have changed the Friday and Saturday features into daily upvotes and SBIs; well, almost daily, as even that is part of the randomisation.
Blockchain News
I am pleased with the increase of the weekly distributions from 17.9% APR last week to 18.5% this week, and adding in all the bonus upvotes, free random upvotes and SBIs, we have distributed some 19.3% APR in profits.
A reminder to those of you without enough SP to delegate, that you can increase your own curation rewards by following the 
I continue to have concerns about the STEEM price and the extent of power-downs. On the face of it, our algorithm is immune to both, however, power-downs mean less vested SP being used to upvote; this is reflected in the reward pool edging upwards again. It is becoming important for the whole economy that those users with vested STEEM, meaning SP, actually use it even if they are not online or not blogging regularly. Setting an autovoter at, say, a minimum of 95% of VP means you'll be making some extra passive income and be able to manually upvote when online.
The only certainty is uncertainty... but it can be managed.
See you next week!
Next rewards distribution will be on Monday 20 May.
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