Steem Basic Income
Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.
Upvotes by Voting Account
Our automated system selects the highest VP account that can deliver the upvote value each time. If the full vote cannot be delivered by a single account, the post may be upvoted by several accounts. Only the rshares value actually voted is removed from the member's pending upvote balance.
In cases where 20% of pending vote balance is greater than the 100% maximum deliverable upvote from all ten voting accounts, the unvoted amount remains in pending upvote balance until eventual upvote delivery. This applies to only 2 accounts that have posted within the last seven days.
For more about how upvote delivery works, please read Value Balances and Upvote Delivery.
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)This shows the total number of upvotes (without respect to size) delivered in the last week. 6916 total upvotes, 2088 accounts upvoted, 10 voting accounts! The biggest boxes belong to members that have a high enough SBI subscription level to get regular upvotes that exceed the minimum threshold.
A more common way to look at voting distribution is by vote weight. This is more meaningful when reviewed by voting account. We publish regular upvote history reports for each voting account, and the regular report for 
SCOT tokens
Steem Basic Income received 2160 PAL in the airdrop. We are using the curation and rewards to spread PAL and other SCOT tokens (#weedcash, #sct, #spt) across our full voting account structure, in order to provide SCOT token author rewards as a bonus to SBI members participating in those communities.
With PAL staked in the main account and across 4 of the lower accounts, we received comparable amounts of LEO. We have staked our LEO across the 8 lower voting accounts. We will continue to spread SCOT curation rewards to reach target token stake levels across the full voting account structure. We are open to staking additional SCOT tokens as they begin to gain traction.
Sustainability Coverage
Sustainability Coverage is currently at 100% and rshares reward rate is 790,000,000 per SBI unit per day. This has been helped by recent changes in STEEM/SBD pricing that have made SBD conversions profitable again.
If curation rewards, base SP, and author rewards each carried 33%, then sustainability multiplier would be 100%, even without help from conversion profits. If you aren't already voting consistently, you can help improve your overall rewards by adding SBI accounts to your upvote list.
You can also help increase the sustainability coverage (and the rshares reward rate on regular units) by delegating to
For more information, please read Into the Heart of Sustainability.
Enrollment
To enroll in Steem Basic Income, or to increase the level of basic income that you receive, enrollment is pretty straightforward:
Just send 1 STEEM to
We currently recommend a subscription level of at least 4 SBI to ensure an upvote is received at least once per week. Increasing your subscription level results in more frequent upvotes until you are being upvoted on every post. Then it results in larger upvotes instead.
Please check out our full transaction memo guidelines and let us know if you have any questions.
https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/transaction-memo-guidelines
The official currency for enrollment is STEEM. We accept SBD at our discretion but you do not receive extra value or any partial refund for paying in SBD instead of STEEM. If we choose to accept an SBD enrollment, we accept the entire amount. If we choose to reject it, we refund the entire amount and request you to send STEEM instead. Enrollments are processed automatically every 144 minutes.
Questions?
Please read our FAQ. If you still have questions, ask in the comments section or join us in our discord channel.
