This week's distributed profits are 0.375%, equivalent to 19.6% APR.
Total rewards to delegators, including bonuses, are 0.398%, or 20.7% APR.
Also, announcing the launch of our new MAPX token. Please read New MAPX Token for Upvotes and Value Growth for details and how to receive 1 free MAPX token worth 1 STEEM.
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 21.1% [1]
Value of Steemit rewards payouts = APR 15.9% [2]
Distributed MAPR payouts = 0.375% (APR 19.6%) [3]
Total MAPR payouts = 0.398% (APR 20.7%) [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] and now almost as high as [1]..
Overall, our returns remain good and, as expect, have levelled off for now. Note that author returns have nudged lower compared to last week and upvotes value remains flat to lower. This is due to volatility in the SBD price around US$1.
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 50 SP. Any delegations below 50 SP will not be accepted.
To get similar benefits with a minimum of about 1 STEEM then see our new MAPX token below.
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 Monday 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.
New MAPX token launch
This is the launch of my new token, managed in a similar way to MAP Rewarder but with two distinct differences:
The key features that differentiate the MAPX token and MAP10K account from the existing MAP Rewarder project are the low entry cost and the increasing value due to compounding earnings.
New MAPX Token for Upvotes and Value Growth
I shall also be giving away random MAPX tokens during June.
10 bonus MAPX tokens are available, with 1 token each to the first 10 buyers - there are now just 3 free tokens left.
There is also now a TOKENOMIX CONTEST to win free MAPX tokens - see the 
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
We have experienced a wonderful run up to over 20% APR over the last few weeks; every week was expecting it to plateau and this week we have, indeed, levelled off at just under 20%. Given that the blockchain values for both an upvote and author-rewards are coming down, this is still a great return. Adding in all the bonus upvotes, free random upvotes, SBIs and MAPX tokens, we have distributed over 21% APR in profits. This is more than most users achieve even from self-voting.
Good to see increased social activity on the blockchain and development of new dapps. However, such activity is not yet reflected in the reward pool, which remains just below 900k STEEM. I do not see any definite trend downwards as yet. 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. 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.
On a positive note, good to see the developments with PALnet and Steem Engine. It is still early days and I hope to see that renewed activity start to impact the reward pool.
The coming HF21 will be another disruptor; I shall have to write about it. Very briefly, we may see an increase in rewards but it won't be double as the reward curve will lower even further low-value posts.
The only certainty is uncertainty... but it can be managed.
See you next week!
Next rewards distribution will be on Monday 1 July.
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