We have decided to honor pre-fork subscriptions on the new blockchain, and even make available an option to fully migrate to the blockchain of your choice (details below under refund policy). From the time fork, new enrollments will only apply to the chain on which they are funded.
{Please be patient as we gradually release Hive SBI materials and then update the reference links for all the posts linked in this FAQ. At publication, they link to the original Steem Basic Income materials.}
First, you can simply send 1 HIVE (or more - whole numbers only, no fractional units will be allocated) to 
Second, delegate HP to
Third, participate in some of the many contests run by fellow SBI members. This is not only a great way to potentially win some sponsored units, it also can help you network and grow your following.
To sponsor more than one member, please check our full Transaction Memo Guidelines and let us know if you have any questions.
The official currency for enrollment is HIVE (HIVE SBI).
{We accept HBD at our discretion (usually when they're closely priced, or when HBD is stronger) but you do not receive extra value or any partial refund for paying in HBD instead of HIVE. If we choose to accept an HBD enrollment, we accept the entire amount. If we choose to reject it, we refund the entire amount and request you to send HIVE instead.}
@steembasicincome with the correct spelling of the name. Please specify the name you mistakenly put, as well as the correct name. These are reviewed manually, so please give us a few days to fix it and confirm.
We periodically check for misspelled or broken transactions and fix them, but somewhat infrequently. To ensure timely processing of your enrollment, please check your balances before sending and check again after 3 or more hours to confirm that your enrollment was processed.
If it has been at least three hours, you can check your enrollment by typing !sbi status in a comment. You can also check your Hive SBI levels in your PeakD wallet.
How frequently you receive upvotes depends on your subscription level and posting frequency, so you might not receive an update on every post you make! You can read more about our upvote delivery in Value Balances and Upvote Delivery.
There are multiple ways to check your subscription level:
!sbi status in it.Regular subscription units last forever. These are the most common units, gained by sending HIVE or by being sponsored. The exception to this is if your account is blacklisted for spam, plagiarism, or illegal activity. If your account was already blacklisted before the Hive fork, then your subscription is not migrated to Hive.
Bonus units gained from delegating HP remain in place until you cancel the delegation.
Yes, your Hive SBI subscription can be terminated at sole discretion of Hive SBI for one or more of the following reasons:
@buildawhale and 
@steemcleaners blacklists to help identify bad actors. If you get blacklisted by those account you will lose the benefits of your Hive SBI subscription.First, ensure that you have an active subscription by checking the number of units that you have using the tools mentioned above.
From the !sbi status result, check if your rshares balance value is less that $0.06. If so, you need to accumulate more pending balance to hit $0.06 before you get the next $0.02 upvote. If you have reached this threshold but still did not get the upvote, contact the Hive SBI team through discord here. You can read more about our upvote delivery in Value Balances and Upvote Delivery.
Hive SBI has many different accounts; 
The upvote value given by Hive SBI is determined by the amount of rshares in your pending upvote balance. There are multiple ways to get bigger upvotes from Hive SBI on your posts:
@steembasicincome. You get temporary "bonus units" when you delegate to @steembasicincome. These bonus units give similar benefit compared to regular Hive SBI units. Currently, you get 1 bonus unit for each 2 HP delegation to @steembasicincome. You must already be enrolled in Hive SBI to receive benefits for delegation.@steembasicincome, do I get anything?No. Phasing out of upvoting bonuses for Steem Basic Income was announced 27 October 2019. We do not plan to bring upvote bonuses to Hive SBI.
Some members get good feelings when they support Hive SBI with upvotes. Your results may vary.
@steembasicincome?@steembasicincome. These bonus units give similar benefit compared to regular Hive SBI units. Currently, you get 1 bonus unit for each 2 HP delegation to @steembasicincome. Bonus units will be removed if you withdraw your delegation.
There are a few types of units that Hive SBI uses, representing different subscription benefits.
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@holger80) automatically, but may be assigned to users that help improve the project.rshares are the unit that Hive uses to calculate rewards. Whenever you upvote, the witness checks your VP% and HP to calculate how many rshares your upvote is worth. Hive SBI uses rshares to track your pending upvote value. Pending upvote value estimates returned by any of our tools are calculated from your rshares at the time of inquiry, but the actual value of your pending upvotes is dependent on HIVE prices and reward pool behavior.
Yes, that is the best way to get in touch with us. Here is a link to the discord server: click here
There is a wealth of information in the #Read-me-first, #updates, and rules channels, or if you need more help, just post your question in the #help channel and a member of the team will be happy to assist you.
We will publish a detailed post about our post-fork refund policy soon. Our previous refund policy is still a good reference.
All pre-fork subscriptions (excluding accounts that were already blacklisted at the time of fork) have been split into separate Steem Basic Income and Hive SBI subscriptions. On either fork, you can request a liquid refund by sending 0.003 transaction memo to Liquid Refund request.
Since your subscription is forked, requesting on one chain will result in a partial refund of half the amount provided by the refund policy. As the liquid refund policy only covers enrolled units, outstanding sponsored units will be transferred to the other chain (adjusted for price difference; please see italicized edit below) (adjusted for price difference; please see italicized edit below). If you request on both chains, it will result in receiving the full Liquid Refund detailed by the refund policy.
To transfer your remaining subscription from Steem Basic Income to Hive SBI (or vice versa):
Send 0.003 transaction memo, to Transfer Refund Request and your remaining subscription will be transferred to the other chain. (Edit: relative STEEM/HIVE prices will be taken at the time your transfer is processed and you may receive a different amount than you had on the other chain - this helps keep each program properly capitalized and fully sustainable).
Please make sure you are using nodes that interact with the chain that you are leaving when you send this request. Note that any subscription units transferred this way will be treated as sponsored units for any future refund requests, regardless of their original provenance.
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