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.
@steembasicincome's first member interview!
He created the Dynamic Steemians. SBI has been fundamental to their community!
This interview was conducted by 
On Steem he shares his music, translates pertinent articles from English to French and manages the Steem Québec (
@soushi888: What do you think about Steem and Steemit?
I saw a problem but found a solution to it.
The bid bots!
I was seeing 300% returns in Dec/Jan of 2017/2018, thus getting my liquid earnings back... And most of my profit in SP. However, the platform grew too quickly and ROI was no longer as easy to achieve with bid bots, so I found an even better solution in 
Not knowing what the issue was, I looked for safer alternatives as I wanted to do more than post promote. 
I took one look and understood math enough and saw his account with no flags and 
Later, I found out DTube was taking 25% of rewards. I was pissed as I felt conned, especially for a platform that took 6 hours to upload a 5 min video that half the time wouldn't load anyway, plus more often than not my videos were deleted.
I would probably still use DTube if they were more upfront with their policies. I really enjoy reading the creator’s posts, as he really is crazy smart and cares immensely about the Steemit platform.
@soushi888: What kind of steemian are you? Would you like to tell us about your project Dynamic Steemians (
@dynamicsteemians)?
This is what I love about Steem; that you can work and improve and learn every day and actually earn money. However, it's a bid bot world right now on Steem, with the exception of a few groups emerging to nurture the proof of brain concept Steemit was intended for...
I never was exposed to any groups that wanted to help or properly explain what the rules were. It was always a random whale fight or weird Grumpy Cat rules you never really understood because they were always changing.
I created Dynamic Steemians in direct response to joining a group that has good intentions but did not really nurture the “proof of brain” concept for Steem. It really discouraged me and a lot of others in the group. Essentially this group was just throwing money at people and trying to make them dance and perpetuating the bid bot “Steemit is only about money” perception. They even had a bot giving 135% returns which was obscene to me.
So I created a server to model my view of what I wish was taught to me when I first started, and to stop people from making the same mistakes I made… like shit posting and promoting.
@soushi888: How do you understand the Steem Basic Income programs? What do you think about it, his (
@josephsavage’s) impact on Steem? Notably by comparing it to bid bots :p
Steem Basic Income has allowed me to take the risk out of investing money I don't have (and time it takes) to use on bid bots. Steem Basic Income was especially key because when I started using DTube and having my money being taken the price was also dropping, so post promotion became extremely not lucrative.
It really made me irritated because there was no education or warnings to new people other than Grumpy Cat, which was just a vague warning that a lot of people misunderstood or never really understood at all.
I was able to clearly see the money I was losing and how I was losing it, especially after I found out DTube was taking a percentage.
Steem Basic Income takes a lot of risk out of the equation, other than potential Hard-Forks that could disrupt payout systems.
I'm not trying to instill fear but without proper communication from the Steemit people on solutions to clear problems happening in the platform, one can only be left to assume things.
But I am not worried about any of this, because
Which is why I am excited about the future Steem Basic Income improvements.
Soon we will not even have to post every day to see our SBI upvotes, we can engage with the community and comment, which is currently my strong point.
@soushi888: How did you join the program? Did someone sponsor you?
@soushi888: Ho nice! And now, in how many pools are you?
@soushi888: Thank you. How does SBI help your project?
It has allowed me, the manager and founder, to have greater financial flexibility in providing some sustainability through "perks" to help employ a few individuals in Nigeria with SBD payments. One in particular is trying to buy a mobile phone with his daily work for us.
@soushi888: Very interesting! So it has a direct impact on the living of your community!
At one point, 13 SBI shares provided a 0.13 upvote daily for a Nigerian member. Now that was huge. It adds up and encourages more Steemit activity. I've been informed that 1 STEEM can buy 3 meals in countries like Kenya and Nigeria. I'm sure there's a certain amount of relativity, i.e. quality of food, but it's still promising.
@soushi888: Do you participate/organize SBI contests?
@soushi888: Ok, let's go for the last questions, but not the least: How do you see SBI evolution?
It will evolve and always for the better as he designed it that way and only has the best intentions for everyone a part of it. He truly believes in it and Steemit.
@soushi888: Do you have a suggestion for him?
Take maternity leave with the wife.
Enjoy this amazing time with wife and child.
It won't last.
@soushi888: Thank you very much for all your pertinent answers! I wish success to all your community!
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