Happy to hear that it has helped :)

I have often wondered where the rewards we received on our posts comes from. Up until now, I usually thought it came from investors stakes.

The Hive rewards pool

The concept of the Hive rewards pool is a little complex. But once you wrap your head around it, it will make sense.

The Hive blockchain prints a certain amount of freshly minted HIVE tokens every day as inflation. These freshly printed HIVE tokens go into what's called the rewards pool, a dedicated fund that must be divided up between Hive bloggers on a daily basis.

It's up to those who have Hive Power, essentially those who own the network itself, to decide how this daily rewards pool should be divided up. They do this by upvoting content.

Do you see that those with large HP balances can give a higher upvote? This is because as they own more of the network, they in turn get more of a say in how the rewards pool is distributed.

The LEO rewards pool

As a layer-2 token, LEO uses the exact same process of a rewards pool to distribute LEO on a daily basis.

So when you choose to join a community, you not only earn HIVE on layer-1, but also the layer-2 token such as LEO. This is as simple as posting from leofinance.io or tagging the post with a finance related tag.

The process of those with a larger LEO stake getting more of a say in how the LEO rewards pool is distributed, is exactly the same as on Hive itself. leofinance.io then uses LEO rewards to display content rather than HIVE. This is why you will see completely different blogs on the LeoFinance trending page than what you see on Hive itself.

If you can understand and take advantage, you can see that the layered nature of Hive can make blogging here a very lucrative endeavour!

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