I've been using 
Beneficiaries have been around for a while now, and are a great way to share out author rewards to accounts. I've used them to reward people for their help with ENGAGE, as well as to send a little to the DAO.
Below is my first payout from
Although I read the announcement, follow-up post, and 'Liquified risk and reward' post from Taraz prior to using the service, I somehow missed:
When you write the post you just have to set
Ooops. What I expected to receive was the HBD and the HIVE as Hive Power, the normal payout when using 50/50. Anyway, I powered up the HIVE and made a mental note to speak to 
That time has now passed, and the suggestion I wanted to make was that the rewards should be paid in HBD and HP. My reasons for using the service were and still are:
The first point is a personal opinion, I've been told it's bs but I'm pretty stubborn and do read other (better) travel posts. Yes, I could set a cap on payout, or send a % to NULL/DAO, but that seems out of fashion at present and being able to set a custom author/curator share sounded pretty cool. More on why it might not be so cool shortly.
A comment on the first post that I used the service for, said in jest because there was no DV from this account, brings me on to another point and a post by 
the curangel upvote code was updated to prevent upvotes on posts that set a liquifying service as beneficiary.
Although I delegate to
So that's fine by me, apart from the fact that I have a lot of respect for the owner/manager of
While the existence of likwid has been unfortunate already, its use has been so small that having an own check for it didn't occur necessary. As reward.app "improved" on the concept by combining it with a vote buying mechanism,
With regards to likwid, I used the service on Steem for a few weeks while powering down. Unfortunately they got screwed with the account theft and so I lost a weeks worth of payouts in doing so. Using
The second point relating to vote buying I can see the argument for. It would not be hard for a coder to check which posts have set a beneficiary to
Also, an author might choose to highlight in the title or first lines of their post that they are using the service, and thus attract curators skimming the various feeds. Indirect vote buying?
As I said earlier, my goal was and still is to reward me a bit less and you at bit more, but it seems that it is more complex than that.
So, what do you think? Is a person using
Do you think the default payout should be HBD and vested HIVE?
And what if there was 'some kind of lottery, where for example a percentage of my rewards could be put aside and then be applied on a random post sometime in the future, but no one knows which post.', as stated by Taraz in a comment on announcement post. Would that be like indirect vote buying also?
I think I will continue to experiment with
Cheers
Asher
