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 rare 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 21 accounts that have posted within the last seven days. This is many more than we would like. Now that our sustainability multiplier is above 100%, we will be leasing SP much more aggressively to raise our voting power reduce how many accounts are impacted by our low VP.
data visualized in Power BI by 
)This shows the total number of upvotes (without respect to size) delivered in the last week. 7229 total upvotes, 1992 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 
Sustainability Coverage and VP Management
Sustainability Coverage is currently at 100% and rshares reward rate is 790,000,000 per SBI unit per day.
The rshares reward rate for bonus units (delegation reward) is not decreased by sustainability coverage. It is higher, to return curation rewards to our delegators. You can help increase the sustainability coverage (and thus the rshares reward rate on regular units) by delegating to
For more information, please read Into the Heart of Sustainability.
Upvoting Reward multipliers are currently at 1.10x until our voting power (VP) recovers to 80%.
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 5 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.
