Helping myself while helping others

I woke up this morning without any idea what to write about. I knew I should write something useful but this time my head was blank. Sometimes the new idea for the post comes to me the night before and I make a draft so I won't forget and to be ready to write in the morning.

In order to get some ideas, I decided to do some curation on Palnet. It was then when I came to the post by @ackza about how @ackza bought some PAL and is undecided whether to stake them or keep them liquid in hopes of selling it if there is a sudden spike in price.

I can't tell anyone what to do. Everyone has to do independent due dilligence and make up their mind but I have earned 1.473 PAL over night and staked it right away.

The reason I did this is very simple. On Palnet, contrary than on Steemit right now, unless HF21 is activated, we have 50/50 curation split. This means 50 percent of our upvotes go to the author and 50 percent are distributed among the curators.

So when I upvoted @ackza's post with my 10 percent upvote, 50 percent of this upvote will land in @ackza's wallet 7 days from the moment the post was published. The remaining 50 percent will be split between the people who upvoted it. So I would probably get not only some of my PAL back but also a portion from other people's upvote on @ackza's post.

This model encourages curation very much and actually helps authors to earn more because their posts will be read by more people.

This is why I am staking every PAL I earn, mine or buy. The more staked PAL I have, the more I can help other people while helping myself too.