ULOG 117 - Myth busting: The Steem Witnesses and the Reward Pool

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I went to the post office at lunch time to send a package of black turmeric to a customer. As I walked back to work, I thought it could use that walk time to make a little video explaining one misconception I believe some Steemians still have about the rewards the witnesses receive and their relationship with the Reward Pool used to pay out for content authoring and curation.

In a nutshell, every day, the system generates some STEEMS which are split into three parts:

• 75% goes to the Reward Pool for rewarding content authors and curators
• 10% is distributed between SP holders (kind of an interest for powering up)
• 15% is used for paying witnesses for signing blocks

So as you can see, the witness rewards (actually called Producer Reward) are not taken from the Reward Pool. So paying the witnesses does not affect the payout amount authors and curators are receiving.

One thing I forgot to add in the video is the following.

At payout time, the amount in STU (Steem Token Unit) is distributed in the following manner:

• 75% is paid to the author
• up to 25% is distributed only between curators. The curators can include the author if the author has self-upvoted. This curation reward is NOT distributed to witnesses, however, a curator can also happen to be a witness but this is different.

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Previously on my Ulog:

• Witness Earnings Report - 2018-10-22
• First HF20 success at taking down a spammer?
• ULOG 115 - What I think of Fiskars X21 axe and X7 hatchet
• ULOG 113 - TGIF

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Credits

• The image at the top has been generated with the Canva app using my own photo.

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