Steem Quick Tips - Delegating the Easy Way

Delegating Steem Power used to be tedious, because we had to manually calculate how much VESTS are needed to delegate a given amount of Steem Power. This has now become easy with Vessel and SteemConnect.

Vessel Method

Vessel is a desktop wallet created by @jesta. It's constantly being improved and updated. Last update post is here. The tool has added support for entering directly how much SP you want to delegate, and it will automatically calculate how much VESTS that translates to.

SteemConnect Method

This method requires three parameters in the submission link:

• delegator
• delegatee
• vesting_shares

The neat part is, vesting_shares accepts two symbols, either VESTS or SP.

For example, if we try to delegate using this link (using drakos as delegator and delegatee, as a test), without putting any symbol:
https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=drakos&delegatee=drakos&vesting_shares=100

We get this error:

So to delegate 100 SP (205227.135132 VESTS) from account1 to account2, we can simply enter this link in the browser:

https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=account1&delegatee=account2&vesting_shares=100 SP

Instead of (the 6 decimals are important for the VESTS):
https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=account1&delegatee=account2&vesting_shares=205227.135132 VESTS

Both links will work, but using SP is quicker and easier to understand than VESTS.

NOTE

There's a space between the amount and the SP/VESTS symbol. The browser will convert that into %20 so don't panic if you see that happen. We end up with something like this:
https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=account1&delegatee=account2&vesting_shares=100%20SP

Undelegating

To undelegate, set the delegation to 0. For example:
https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=account1&delegatee=account2&vesting_shares=0 SP
Or
https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=account1&delegatee=account2&vesting_shares=0.000000 VESTS
(the 6 decimals are important)

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