@tipU Investors Report: 27.03.2018 - Curation Reward Payouts, Increasing Profits, Code Upgrades

Hi guys,

This post is intended to inform @tipU investors (users who delegated SP to @tipU or invested STEEM/SBD) about current development of the service.

Code Upgrades

In recent days two major changes were made:

• the income is added to each investors account after each vote, not at the end of the day. This ensures that the person who delegated/invested just before the daily payout won't receive profit (because his delegation did not generated any income yet) which would lower payouts to other investors
• the @tipU vote value is now calculated based also on reward pool variables, not only current steem price. This allows to better calculate voting power needed for each vote and lowers the chance of "overvoting"

Checking Pending Payout

Because at any given moment @tipU will now know the amount of profit for each investor, it will be possible for investors to check their pending profit payout by sending simple message to @tipU. It's a small thing but some investors may find it useful, I should finish coding it in a few days.

Paying Curation Rewards To Investors

This feature was not officially announced yet because it's still in development but basically 50% of all curation rewards will be paid out to investors. This feature is generally intended to increase investors payouts and attract new ones :)

Increasing Profits

Now the most important part ;) If I would like to generate more profit from upvotes, the easiest way would be to lower the upvote multiplier which currently is at 2.5 (this means that if someone pays 1 SBD, he receives 2.5 SBD upvote). But the 2.5 upvote profit is kinda trademark for @tipU and lowering it could discourage a lot of vote buyers.

So currently I'm focusing on increasing the curation rewards, as they are part of the payouts. The idea is simple - allow higher upvotes for authors, who generate more curation rewards. The upvote multiplier will stay at 2.5 but max allowed upvote value will be higher for best authors (for example 5 SBD instead of 2 SBD currently).

In theory this should help to promote better authors who create better content because better content gets more upvotes and by this allows for higher curation rewards (of course timing of the upvote is still important). Promoting valuable content is also very good for steem ecosystem.

So in a couple of days I should finish coding the tracking algorithm that will tell @tipU how much curation rewards each author gives on average. Of course I will take into account only posts that were upvoted by @tipU.

The alternative way is to try to predict post value before upvoting but this requires stuff like AI machine learning :) There is already a bot that tries to do it, you can check it out here:
https://steemit.com/@trufflepig
Maybe we can join forces?

This sums it up, please feel free to ask questions if you have any :)

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If you would like to invest @tipU, please check out this post.

@tipU pays 100% of income to investors (no fees) + on top of that also 50% of curation rewards. Kinda best deal on steem ;)

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