Yes I Have A Premium Membership

And it will be activated in version 0.16.08 but before the update initiates I would like to explain it, how it works, and why it exists.

What Is The Premium Membership:

The premium membership is simple a list of users whom will get a higher upvote than the rest by between 1.8 times and 2.0 times. So if a regular user gets an upvote of 11% then a premium member will get between a 19% and 22% upvote.

How much does it cost:

Nothing....

Wait what why?

The premium membership is going to mainly be used for the steemstem curators, there is a reason for this, and potentially as a reward for competitions. The reason for this is that the curators do not get the @curie vote meaning that they will not get as much of a reward. The other part though is potential competition winners for competitions put on by users like suesa or if there is a steemstem specific challenge.

Bot Info as of 0.16.08

Upvote value: 10.8%
Premium Vote: 20.8%
Base Bid Value: 0.001 SBD/STEEM
Following: steemstem
Voting With: steemstem-bot, thetruedm, opticcncfan, jhafso, leader5050
Investors: kryzsec
Premium Accounts: justtryme90, lemouth, suesa, trumpman, mobbs, anarchyhasnogod, zest, and ruth-girl. There may be supposed to be in here but I am not completely certain
Upvote Value (at 100% VP with 100% VW):
steemstem-bot->0.16
opticcncfan->0.03
thetruedm->0.04
jhafso->0.03
leader5050->0.03
total->0.29
Regular Upvote Value: ~0.03
Premium Upvote Val: ~0.06
In Practice Total Upvote Value: 0.51

Why the bot hasn't been upvoting:

This is what I have been staring at every time I try to restart the bot (even the old bot that worked therefore it isn't programming issue) since last night.

![connect_error.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSCsPypfdVGxDrtjgfdrvznWfHDSnyRta5gnTKuR41Bwx/connect_error.png)

This was taken when not choosing a specific node to connect to, a similar error comes p when attempting to connect directly to the steemd full node. As you can see this attempted to connect directly to the steemd node. Anyways this has been the update for the bot. If you have any questions or comments then please put them below and I will respond as soon as I can.

Edit

I have connected to non standard nodes and I am changing some configurations for the library to use standard nodes (list here) but yeah. So it is kind of working. Will talk later.