With the constant lower STEEM price it makes it harder and harder to sweep up dust. The voting power needed to push a comment above the threshold is holding us back immensely. A few weeks back we managed to reach a whopping 26K in SP, but at the same time, it was frustrating to see that we couldn't handle any more dust.
Hopefully we will see a higher STEEM price moving forward.
Dustsweeper's cost model is built to provide no profit from the vote itself. The money paid in is returned via the upvote, and the profit comes purely from the saved dust.
In a recent update, an error was introduced in the cost calculation, causing around a 50% discount to the vote cost. As a user, don't worry! You basically got an early dust Christmas present. :)
We basically depend on the subscription money to be able to pay for delegation, but we hope this won't have a too big of an impact on our operation.
The lower STEEM price is making the payout percentage higher than before. When we started
In these tough times, we are especially thankful for all the support we've got. If you are reading this, please be sure to thank this cool bunch of Steem users:
@gamer00 - 3000 SP
@abh12345 - 200 SP
@dynamicrypto - 100 SP
@preparedwombat - 100 SP
@johndoer123 - 5 SPIn addition, 
We have added some requested features to
The $help command now includes information how to top-up your account and how to send a gift to another user. It currently looks like this:
We have also extended the $stats command to include the current status of the account and the last time it was checked for dust.
When the $stats command was updated a few days back, the last line initially included the "last vote time" instead. That was a mistake and was only true for accounts in an inactive state. The time is correctly referring to the last time Dustsweeper tried to sweep the account for dust, even if no dust was found.
We have modified the data collection and will include "last vote time" as well in 1-2 weeks.
If you still haven't done so, please come and join us on Discord!
The 
Here the latest Dustsweeper statistics.
With the current demand and the low STEEM price, we are averaging around 1 dust vote per user, per day.
ps. If you wonder about the cool 
Dustsweeper is an initiative supported by Witness 
Seeing a 2 cents profit turn into dust doesn't sound like much, but for someone new, it can make all the difference.
