# Steem Basic Income
Steem Basic Income is a voluntaryist social experiment to bring a crowd-funded 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.

<h1>3rd Party Intro Video</h1>
@ecoinstant, from Writers Group, was [interviewed this week](https://steemit.com/dtube/@snook/gy4gx5x975c) by @snook. The interview is about a contest series he is running, but because he is giving substantial SBI prizes it turned into a brief overview of how SBI works. If you have nagging questions about the mechanics of SBI, check out this intro video. 

Leave any questions in our comment section below, and please let us know whether it's a good addition to our [Helpful SBI Resources](https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@steembasicincome/helpful-sbi-resources) post!

<h1>Control Your Votes</h1>
Members interested in more dynamic SBI value management can opt to have any post/comment skipped by including `#sbi-skip` in the tags, saving their pending upvote value for posts that they expect to perform  better. You may also request us to pause your votes, but it will require a second request to activate them again. Your value will continue to accrue in your pending vote balance even while delivery is paused.

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<h2> Upvotes by Voting Account </h2>
Our automated system selects the highest VP account that can deliver the upvote value each time. If the full vote cannot be delivered by a single account, the post may be upvoted by several accounts. Only the rshares value actually voted is removed from the member's pending upvote balance. 

In cases where 33% of pending vote balance is greater than the 100% maximum deliverable upvote from all ten voting accounts, the unvoted amount remains in pending upvote balance until eventual upvote delivery.

For more about how upvote delivery works, please read [Value Balances and Upvote Delivery](https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@steembasicincome/value-balances-and-upvote-delivery).

<h2>Outgoing Votes</h2>

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<center><sub>(@steemsql data visualized in Power BI by @josephsavage)</sub></center>

This shows the total number of upvotes (without respect to size) delivered in the last week. 5527 total upvotes, 1295  accounts upvoted, 10 voting accounts! **Almost 67% of active enrolled accounts have never sent *any* STEEM for enrollment.** They were sponsored by other Steemians that support our vision of creating a crowd-funded voluntary basic income.

<h2>SCOT tokens</h2>
We have decided to simplify our SCOT tracking by consolidating all tokens into the new @sbi-tokens account which trails the other voting accounts. Here are the tokens currently staked on @sbi-tokens.

Token | Staked | VP
---|----|----
PAL ( #palnet ) | 2805.422 | 49.98%
NEOXAG ( #neoxian ) | 3085.037 | 72.48%
#MARLIANS | 100.263 | 73.9%
#SCT | 15.574 | 75.01%
MOT ( #mediaofficials ) | 3965.45 | 77.02%
ZZAN ( #zzan ) | 63.287 | 77.69%
#ACTNEARN | 988.95 | 77.91%
#LIFESTYLE | 6.759 | 82.21%
UFM ( #upfundme ) | 117.637 | 86.54%
SPORTS ( #sportstalk ) | 3733.638 | 89.43%
#SONIC | 501.943 | 95.42%
#BATTLE | 578 | 97.74%
#CTP | 44.45 | 98.6%
LEO ( #steemleo ) | 1177.741 | 98.77%
GG ( #steemace ) | 1803.03 | 99.16%
#SPT | 11839.894 | 99.83%
NATRL ( #naturalproducts ) | 1321.855 | 100%
#JAHM | 573.069 | 100%
CCC ( #creativecoin ) | 448.84 | 100%
RHB ( #realityhubs ) | 435.751 | 100%
#INT | 257.201 | 100%
#STEM | 171.427 | 100%
WEED ( #weedcash ) | 144.111 | 100%
#TUNES | 31 | 100%
#NGA | 23.25 | 100%
#IV | 20.388 | 100%

We will continue to keep tokens staked on @sbi-booster as an added incentive for members to reach the 40 unit target that we believe provides the best user experience.

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<h2> Enrollment </h2>
To enroll in Steem Basic Income, or to increase the level of basic income that you receive, enrollment is pretty straightforward:

Just send 1 STEEM to @steembasicincome. Include the name of a Steemian to sponsor in the transaction memo (preceded by @). You and the person you sponsor will each receive 1 share in the program. You can sponsor *any* active Steemian (excluding yourself), it does not have to be a current member. Multiples of 1 STEEM are also fine (e.g. 5 STEEM with one name means 5 SBI for each of you).

Increasing your subscription level results in more frequent upvotes until you are being upvoted on every post. Then it results in larger upvotes instead.

Please check out our full transaction memo guidelines and let us know if you have any questions.
https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/transaction-memo-guidelines

The official currency for enrollment is STEEM. We accept SBD at our discretion but you **do not receive extra value** or any partial refund for paying in SBD instead of STEEM. If we choose to accept an SBD enrollment, we accept the entire amount. If we choose to reject it, we refund the entire amount and request you to send STEEM instead. Enrollments are processed automatically every 144 minutes. 

<h1> Questions about Steem Basic Income?</h1>
Most questions are addressed in our [FAQ](https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@steembasicincome/frequently-asked-questions) or in these [helpful resources](https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@steembasicincome/helpful-sbi-resources). If you still have questions, ask in the comments section or join us in our [discord server](https://discord.gg/VpghTRz). 

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