This is an observation, unsure if its my account or all around happening with everyone's accounts
Before I get into my serious article writing today, and trust me the news has a lot to write about so I better get busy lol. But as a quick question to the community. Are you guys noticing the potential payouts on your blogs still dropping dramatically? I been price checking and since I woke up this morning the price spiked up quite decently on Steem but my account on average has been dropping dollars at a time, every hour on the hour but no votes have been taken away.
It this something to do with HF19 or is the ticker system just very slow to update? Just wanted to ask, either way it is what it is but making sure I don't have some weird issue I may need to tend to or get in touch with someone about. I have noticed anything about $100 potential payouts are dropping more dramatically, I had one that was $150 this morning and now reaching close to $120 in the matter of an hour, votes are still the same so its kind of caught my attention.
If your seeing this let me know I am not crazy lol. Just hate to see in a weeks time everyone drops to zero lol, but I don't think that will be the case
~sflaherty
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EDIT: GOT THE ANSWER I NEEDED ON THIS, NO NEED TO WORRY...HERE IS WHY THE PAYOUTS ARE DOING THAT
I am glad I posted this, got a few great answers on why our payouts are dropping. They potential payout system is on a rolling scale percentage system. So basically due to the prices being down the last few days its average is less so therefore your potential payouts are less. Once we keep a higher average for a little while your payout potentials will rise back up. Now here is an observation to add to that answer, you should get more volume in coin when your potential payouts are lower...this is just how it is in crypto so you probably will take your payout on the low side and sell for current market price and end up with more Bitcoin than your potential payout shows. This is actually a good thing, so no need to worry, it will average out in the end for you. Just had to ask, was worrying a few of my friends and myself but makes sense now. YOUR POTENTIAL PAYOUTS WILL AVERAGE BACK UP AFTER SOME TIME OF BEING ON THE HIGHER SIDE IN THE MARKET PRICES...NO NEED TO WORRY!!!