SBI is still alive on Hive as Hive-SBI (now they call it "Stake Basic Income"). Beware, however, that there is a user on the platform that feels SBI is wrong. He thinks, somehow, that it is a "socialist" program and should be boycotted. (He obviously does not know what "socialism" truly is.) If you buy SBI, he will downvote you a "tax" of 10% of rewards on all your posts. He has many accounts, but one of them is "mmmmmkkkkkk" or some such. But yeah, Hive-SBI is a thing. Here is one of their recent posts on the Hive blockchain:

@steembasicincome/transaction-memo-guidelines-q9f1u2

I consider one of my blog posts "successful" if:

• it gets some juicy upvotes, such as when a curator from @appreciator, @curie, @curangel, etc. notices it and gives it a sweet upvote that kicks rewards into the two-digit range


• quite a number of people leave appreciative comments saying they learned something, or were entertained, or truly enjoy reading my posts


• if, after publishing it, I get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside that tells me I did a kickass job and I'm very proud of it