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People Need about 48 HP in Order to Receive Curation Rewards

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The upvote rewards on HIVE come from interest on HIVE POWER. The value of a given upvote depends on the HP, the User's Voting Power at the time of the upvote and the size of the reward pool.

Each upvote reduces one's voting power by 2%. Voting power regenerates at 20% a day. This means one gets 10 upvotes a day.

Half of the reward goes to the author of the post and half of the reward goes to the curator.

The minimum curation reward is 0.001. If your upvote is worth less than 0.002; you will not receive curation rewards.

PeakD.com is one of best interfaces for HIVE. It lets users examine the wallets of other users. The activity page on PeakD includes curation rewards. The following link shows my activities page. Replace the word yintercept with your account name to see your rewards.

About half way down the page on right side, there is a little checkbox followed by the word "curation." Click that box and the page shows only curation rewards.

My account has about 4900 HP. I usually upvote 100% and my voting power is usually over 9%%. My curation rewards currently average about 0.115 per post. Note, I upvote comments at just 20% of my Voting Power.

The size of one's rewards varies. A general rule is that one gets 0.001 for every 48 HP in their account.

You can check different wallets and you will see this amount seems to hold true.

0.001 is a small amount, but it adds up. Voting ten times a day results in 0.01 rewards. Voting 10 times a day for 365 days results in 3.65 HP curation rewards for every 48 HP in one's account. That is 7.6% interest!

The author is getting 7.6% interest and the curator gets 7.6%. That is 15.2% interest.

This is a generous amount for an interest based reward system.

Unfortunately, since the minimum payout is 0.001 HP, most of the curation rewards for accounts with under 48 HP get wiped away as dust.

A few days ago, I examined an account that had only 40HP. Although the person had dropped several hundred upvotes, the user had never received a curation rewards. I was really sad.

The solution is to buy HIVE and power up that HIVE.

I want to go back and point out that curation rewards fluctuate. It varies by one's voting percent and the number of people who upvote a post. If you want to get a reward on every post, you probably want to have 100 HP in your account.

Before continuing. I would like to point out that one never loses HP on HIVE. The value always increases.

The problem is that the price of HIVE itself fluctuates. It could easily drop to a dime. It has in the past. The risk of buying HIVE POWER is that the price of HIVE might drop.

That said, I believe that the best approach to HIVE is to buy enough HIVE POWER so that one has a decent upvote value. You then sell HBD from one's post; hopefully, the amount you sell will be more than the HIVE you acquired.

I borrowed $480 and bought HP just for this reason. I have to pay back that loan.

Alt-Coins to the Rescue

If you want to build your account from scratch. That is you don't want to buy alt-coins. Your best bet is to concentrate on alt coins. The alt coins often have minimum payouts which are substantially lower than 0.001.

If I were a newbie starting an account from scratch. I would choose a Hive Tribe that shared my interests and concentrate on earning the tribe's token. Verify Your Brainium is a new general use forum with a decent payout. I've been enjoying CentBlog. They have a low minimum payout.

The minimum payout on LeoFinance is 0.001 LEO. You need about 2.75 LEO to start getting curation rewards.

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