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.
We are up to eight pools, so your upvotes could come from 
Thank you all for your support! Upvotes that we receive from members are an essential component to keep delivering a sustainable basic income!
img source: http://www.steemreports.com/top-voters/@steembasicincome
All members that upvote consistently are rewarded with a bonus increase in their voting weight. To get the best benefit, we recommend using 
We have improved the targeting so that members get full bonus if they upvote each update, even if we miss a few days. In the last 28 days, we have posted only 10 updates, so a full upvote bonus is currently based on providing 10 full updates (or equivalent- some members provide partial upvotes but also upvote comments from
We use some of the fixed-return upvoting services (a la 
The average upvoting bonus is 36.63% but our weekly update income is only 9.9% of the amount that we pay out in upvotes each week. With daily updates, that would be 29.7%, which still falls short of our average upvoting bonus. Paying out more upvoting bonus than we earn from updates indicates that most members are gaining more from their upvote bonus than we are earning from their upvotes.
Our weekly sustainability goal is for the average upvoting bonus to be roughly 40%, and for our update income to be 40% of what we pay out in upvotes each week. Beginning June 3rd, we resumed self-voting each update. Since most programs on Steem charge a 15 or 25% management fee, we believe that a 10% self-voting target on top of 5% management shares is reasonable.
If you want to get involved, or to increase the share of basic income that you receive, enrollment is very straightforward:
Just send 1 STEEM to
Please check out our full transaction memo guidelines and let us know if you have any questions.
https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/steem-basic-income-new-transaction-memo-guidelines
The official currency for enrollment is STEEM. We are not currently accepting SBD for enrollments. Enrollments are validated manually, and currently take 6-7 days to process, as we are still catching up from a recent family camping trip.
We had a great experience at the #steemcreators conference in April and we are excited for what is in store this September! This is a fantastic opportunity to network with other Steemians and learn skills to improve your Steem performance.
Purchase your conference tickets Here and don't forget to book your place for the Steem Creator's Concert after-hours event featuring 
We would love to see you there!
@josephsavage's presentation on Steem Basic Income from the last conference:
Please read our FAQ. Most questions are addressed in our FAQ or in the resources that it suggests. If you still have questions, ask in the comments section or join us in our new discord server.
To review your share counts, we explain our tracking sheet here, or you can use our new tool which will be explained in detail in an upcoming post.
