In my previous post I had estimated the value of upvote and its distribution, but did not present the details of the passive return (2% APR) to investors who park their funds as Steem Power (SP). It is also important to know how much an investor passively earns by committing his/her SP to fund Hive account@prosperist or any Hive account@zerocash project. My analysis is presented herein.

A post by Hive account@lukestokes about 2 years ago estimated the interest rate on Steem Power (SP) at 5% per week ie. 260% APR, but based on a comment by Hive account@dantheman projected it to go down to about 12% yearly over the next year.
Around the same time Hive account@deeprocks published an SP Interest calculator, which is even live today. This SP calculator estimates the SP interest rate to 219% yearly.

About 11 months ago Hive account@cantribute estimated it at 1.993% APR. Around the same time Hive account@jerrybanfield posted a video claiming 2% return every 5 days, that's a whooping 146% APR.

But the Hive account@jerrrybanfield video was about returns on authoring and curation activities and not on SP just sitting idle.

None of those references provided the current passive interest rate that SP delivers when sitting idle in the wallet. So I did the following experiment:

I selected two very high value Steemit accounts with millions in SP and zero voting or authoring activities, and recorded the change in their SP values over time. Here are the animated GIFs of the results:

1. Steem Power APR based on Hive account@misterdelegation wallet: 1.996%

2. Steem Power APR based on Hive account@steemit wallet: 1.920%

The Prosperist Pledge

If you wish to continue to participate in the ZeroCash experiment and willing to comply with the rules specified in my previous post, you can make the following pledge in your comment on this post:

“I pledge to share my SBD reward from this post with Hive account@prosperist to earn Xteem tokens @ 1 Xteem token / $0.01”

I thank all those who had cooperated and supported this cause. Special thanks to Hive account@rahemanali, Hive account@bitbulls, Hive account@benadam, Hive account@musheer Hive account@dexin Hive account@ormus who helped this pilot campaign.

For FAQ please check here
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PLEASE NOTE:
As explained here it is impossible to upvote all pledges. Those who have defaulted their earlier pledges and rated C will not be upvoted unless they comply by transferring their overdue SBDs to Hive account@prosperist. New pledgers will also not be upvoted unless majority Hive account@prosperist moderators, Hive account@zerocash members upvote them.