You got a 31.39% upvote from @ocdb courtesy of @tcpolymath!

I read somewhere recently that besides the 25% for curators, Dtube takes a comission for using its service, I'm not sure how it works but the person who wrote that article said that if that's the case, maybe is more convenient to upload the videos in youtube and later put the links in a regular steemit post. I don't know, I haven't do the maths involved as you did so if you look into it later I'll be waiting for your conclusions.

It is an interesting idea and could hint at some ways an SMT may support curators. It still doesn't resolve the beneficiary questions I have (at least most) as this benefits the curators. If this attracts a lot more curators  on a post, then maybe it will be worth it for a poster but for a larger account getting organic votes, it would still be very expensive to 'lose' 25%. With so few organic curatating SP in the waters, 25% is very expensive perhaps.

Edit: I m going to add the link to my post the other day in case anyone wants to read what I am talking about.

https://steemit.com/steem/@tarazkp/potential-problems-with-app-beneficiaries

Thanks for your informative most about dtube.

          I think if someone wanted to make a lot of money, then they could offer a 5% service. Advertise it as such, make sure the people can see the 5% fee they charge. Then they can state on their page, we do not time your video out after 7 days, you may relink the video and post every 7 days without worry.

          As far as I know other than **the people** on steemit, there really is not a rule against reposting your own work. You are violating no rules. So the inability to continue to gain on going rewards from a video or any posting is entirely due to people's **fear** of the downvote.

          A Video Storage/Viewing service that allows repeat posting for rewards, while initially may have a lot of content downvoted, eventually the service would reach haejin levels and people will just give up the down voting. After all no **rules** were broken, or violated. 

          So the reality to limited rewards for any post is only the fear of being downvoted, or blacklisted, because there simply are no rules against re-posting.

"This means that total curation on dTube posts is in the range of 40%"

To me, this is new information, so thanks for ferreting it out.

The 25% fee looks more reasonable in that light, as it no longer looks like it is vastly more expensive to "dLive," if in fact the extracted value is going into increasing the circulation.

Instinctively, I do prefer the "dTube" brand to the "dLive" brand, because a brand that says "live" but mostly isn't live, isn't communicating optimally. 

Your post muddies the waters again in my mind as to which is better to use lol.

I've tried to use DTube, but I find it very flakey. The last time I uploaded a video it took about an hour (for a 3 minute video) then once I tried to finalize the post, it told me I needed to upload a video and, suddenly, the video that I waited an hour for was gone. That has never happened to me on YouTube.

Thanks for the mention @tcpolymath! I only wish I had a few more people watch the cool drone videos I posted. Hahaha. Such an tiny reward for the hours it took, but such is the life of a nanoplankon! Feel free to check out [my new post if drone videos are your cup of tea...](https://steemit.com/steemstem/@snowyknight/2civvenk). 

Thanks again for the cool post and wow you are up to $88! That is amazing!

Too bad D.Tube hardly ever works. Makes it hard to curate honestly if you can't even look at the content.

Ooh. I've been poking around this just recently just to see what's happening. I found this post: https://steemit.com/dtube/@dtube/curation-and-economic-update

which confirms what you are saying. Moreover, it is saying that the beneficiary amounts are distributed in proportion to the rshares of the curator. No sqrt penalty, just direct deal. Pretty interesting result, so the overall effective curation seems to blend some early-voting bonus with linear staking curation.