Thank you to everyone trying out the bounties.
Bounties are a way to reward your readers to comment on your post, whether you are running a contest, want a question answered or are just want encourage more interaction. You can simply send any amount to 
If you are new to the concept check out how bounties work here with this link . There are tutorials in various languages.
News about this report
@laconic is going to make it easier to follow bounty post by re-steeming the ones with over $1 bounty reward. So if you are a bounty hunter, go and follow his account.
We have launched a new version of steem-bounty. The data is stored in a new database that will allow us better to have the bounties shown via a web-ui. The existing bounties will still be paid out as before and all the new bounties will be picked up by the new functionality.
It has been over 7 days with the new version, so from now on we are only going to include bounties from the new version.
About 70 bounties have been paid with the new system.
One of the things we have changed is the way we show results. We are now presenting all bounty information in one thread, in order to not spam the blockckchain and every comment and to allow a better overview. Do you like this new way better than the old one? Every person still gets their own transaction with their custom message, so overall no information should be lost. Here is an example:
fortunately we are getting close with the website. I think in 1-2 weeks it should be done and then finding bounties will be much more fun and easier. Here is a sneak peek..
We have a telegram channel. If you have any question or need some help this will allow us to respond more quickly. You can join here: https://t.me/steembounty
We are currently trying to update this report every other day. Given that bounties run 7 days mostly this should be a good frequency and balance between spam and giving everyone a chance to participate in each bounty.
Minimum bounty size we will include in this report to 0.1 STEEM or SBD. There may be many bounties cheaper than this, however in the interest of spam avoidance we decided to exclude them from this list here.
New bounties come currently with a 1% fee. We do this to test if our fee system is working and may switch this on and off during the beta. We hope the 1% is small enough for no-one to care if it is on or off.
Over 500 bounties have been created. We are delighted that so many people have used it. In our next version we will be able to give more detailed stats as well.
Currently the below screenshot from the new UI shows you how many bounties are active and their value:
Abuse
If you see anyone abusing the bounty system in any way, please let us know in the telegram channel. This has not happen much but we are happy to deal with it and the fast way for us to react will be via telegram.
You can join here: https://t.me/steembounty
Check this report to find bounty-post
Since there is no easy way to search for bounty posts, we will create these lists of bounties on a regular basis, so make sure to follow the
Some posters use the "bounty" and "steem-bounty" tag, so you can look for those as well. If you create a post an plan to use a bounty, make sure to add a bounty tag and ideally announce in your post or via the headline that you are providing a bounty.
Remember in order to qualify for a bounty reward you must write a comment to the bounty post, which needs to be a top level comment (direct response to the post).
Newer Bounties 5-7 or later
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Thank you very much for your attention and we hope you will vote for us as witness!
In order to do so you can go to:
https://steemit.com/~witnesses
And enter the "steem-bounty" account into the text field and click vote.
Or use steem-connect to vote directly for us as Steem witness!