It was through 
Here's what I found:
There's a webpage HiveSBI.com a Hive community: Hive SBI and at least 12 different Hive accounts. @Steembasicincome is the main, and then there's 
If you send or delegate funds to any of these accounts, you will help broaden practical deployment of the Hive SBI payments. These payments take the form of upvotes on the posts of sponsored accounts.
'Sponsoring' is what occurs when you send a whole number amount of Hive to the 
What happens to the Hive you send? It's staked by the receiving account to increase the size of its upvotes — the payments.
So, I had 4.127 HBD in my savings, which I took out; waiting 3 days for that to happen. I then swapped that for HIVE using Ecency:
Once that was done I had 13.172 in liquid HIVE, which includes 0.416 that was there prior. I staked the 0.172 and then started sending transfers...
Turns out you can sponsor more than one account in a single transaction, as long as the transaction amount divides cleanly between the sponsored accounts. I didn't realise this, so made thirteen separate transactions of 1 Hive. If I could go back and do it again, I would instead send one 13 Hive transfer to
Why all the references to 'Steem'?
Because Steem is where Hive started. It's a long story and I don't know all the details, but the short version of it could go like this:
Maybe 7 or 8 years ago, a company called Steemit Incorporated started a social media network based on the idea of paying people for all the things that users on other social media networks do: creating content, sharing content, liking content, all that. There were other reasons too. Some time later, that company was bought out by a person that proved to be corrupt. This person abused their bought power in a way that threatened the independence of the community growing around the platform. In response to this, the community moved — to the same place. That is, they made a copy of the underlying platform and shifted away from the compromised version, so they could be independent, decentralised and free — again. This new place was named Hive, but in most other ways it was a verbatim copy, so projects and initiatives that were started in those days, with their associated accounts, were copied over as is.
My old account is still over there on Steemit, with broken image links and everything
The reason that the community could do this is because all the computer code underlying the platform was open source and freely available.
While talking to 
*Friendly cringe*
So that's what I've got to say so far. That's Hive Stake Based Income and that's how it's used. Can it improve the world on a local level? On it's own, no. However, we can use it as infrastructure to improve the world ourselves. People need access to resources for living. Society is so structured that money is required to access these resources. Hive Stake Based Income can be used to generate that money and people can use Hive to access that money through their accounts, converting it to fiat currency through an exchange when required.
Is there more I can say about Hive Stake Based Income? I'm not sure, but if you are, let me know in comment form.
Here's the 13 people that I sponsored with 1 Hive on 20 Jan 2024 starting from 01:58:30 (UTC):
More recently, I received a tip of 1 HIVE for sharing that a person's shadow in a photo looked to me like the Lord Farquaad character from the movie Shrek. I used that tip to sponsor one more account:
Life's absurd...
