# Steem Basic Income Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a 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. ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmY4DpJXh5QTmUn57rHcepKvNSHnRME7PJ7tX8JMDuAGgt/image.png) Many of our members use the #steembasicincome tag for their contests, so check there for contests that we might not have resteemed! # Still Going Strong We are up to eight pools, so **your upvotes could come from @steembasicincome, @sbi2, @sbi3, @sbi4, @sbi5, @sbi6, @sbi7, or @sbi8**. We currently have 3148 members that have posted within the last 28 days, and many more members that have not. Unfortunately, members that are not posting are not receiving upvotes. There are currently 27078 'shares' in the program, and it grows every day. ## Support from Members Thank you all for your support! Upvotes that we receive from members are an essential component to keep delivering a sustainable basic income! ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdoRqLrLT5peVVLrxbxKh2y43o1abrZsbGpzAPNC2u2dH/image.png) *img source: http://www.steemreports.com/top-voters/@steembasicincome* All members that upvote consistently are rewarded with a bonus increase in their voting weight. To get the best benefit, we recommend using @steemvoter or @steemauto. This is based on upvotes in the previous 28 days. If you have just started auto-voting our updates, it may take a full month before you see your full bonus take effect. We have improved the targeting so that members get full bonus if they upvote each update, even if we miss a few days. In the last 28 days, we have posted only 10 updates, so a full upvote bonus is currently based on providing 10 full updates (or equivalent- some members provide partial upvotes but also upvote comments from @steembasicincome). We do not currently include upvotes on comments from pool accounts toward your bonus, but those upvotes still improve sustainability. We use some of the fixed-return upvoting services (a la @minnowbooster), and you can see their impact in the chart. It helps boost long-term sustainability, as you can see in our 28-day SP rewards, which are gently trending upward again, with spikes when promoted posts payout: ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSMJgzBCDk3CAuLj71aCHhxwF9Xkcp3w9c3iKSv4PSbqW/image.png) *@steemsql DB, with visualization in Power BI* # Self-voting Updates The average upvoting bonus is 36.63% but our weekly update income is only 9.9% of the amount that we pay out in upvotes each week. With daily updates, that would be 29.7%, which still falls short of our average upvoting bonus. Paying out more upvoting bonus than we earn from updates indicates that most members are gaining more from their upvote bonus than we are earning from their upvotes. Our weekly sustainability goal is for the average upvoting bonus to be roughly 40%, and for our update income to be 40% of what we pay out in upvotes each week. Beginning June 3rd, we resumed self-voting each update. Since most programs on Steem charge a 15 or 25% management fee, we believe that a 10% self-voting target on top of 5% management shares is reasonable. ## Enrollment If you want to get involved, or to increase the share of basic income that you receive, enrollment is very 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, it does not have to be a current member. Please check out our full transaction memo guidelines and let us know if you have any questions. https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/steem-basic-income-new-transaction-memo-guidelines The official currency for enrollment is STEEM. We are not currently accepting SBD for enrollments. Enrollments are validated manually, and currently take 6-7 days to process, as we are still catching up from a recent family camping trip. ## Upcoming Steem Creators Conference!

#### Come meet us and many other talented Steemians in Toronto this Fall!
We had a great experience at the #steemcreators conference in April and we are excited for what is in store this September! This is a fantastic opportunity to network with other Steemians and learn skills to improve your Steem performance. Purchase your conference tickets [Here](https://steemcreators.com/qsot-event/cc/09-05_2018-900am/) and don't forget to book your place for the Steem Creator's Concert after-hours event featuring @wolfnworbeikood and many other amazing creators!!! We would love to see you there!
##### Here is @josephsavage's presentation on Steem Basic Income from the last conference:
[![Thumbnail](http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcxWAShS1n32r1DjkX5hWaY8VWrixiGYE8g7Q9miZowD8)](https://dlive.io/video/steembasicincome/4eb6aba0-4ceb-11e8-aa5b-83da28bb4ae3) ## Questions? Please read our [FAQ](https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@steembasicincome/steem-basic-income-frequently-asked-questions). Most questions are addressed in our FAQ or in the resources that it suggests. If you still have questions, ask in the comments section or join us in our [**new discord server**](https://discord.gg/VpghTRz). To review your share counts, we explain [our tracking sheet here](https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/steem-basic-income-membership-update-pulling-back-the-screen), or you can use our [new tool](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iNnXUcFpt3tHZOk5dDCb21_VZFfvQN31yW7dKyebZsI/edit#gid=0) which will be explained in detail in an upcoming post.