OMG! This was like the answer to a prayer when I opened it this morning -- minutes after you posted it. This looks like wonderful news -- because I absolutely agree with you that MinnowBooster is both the best minnow service on Steemit AND that it desperately needs some competition.

In some ways they don't go far enough in the advantages they try to offer -- and while they have always played fair with us, their shifting terms of service makes it hard to develop a consistent strategy of use and reliability. They are one of the most important features on Steemit. I desperately want to see them succeed.

(The "roll the dice" feature of most bid bots -- with the very real possibility that you will wind up with less than you paid in the end -- has kept us -- me and my husband -- away from them. Maybe they're a good idea, but maybe they mostly benefit their developers -- which I suppose is fair. Nobody forces you to use them. But, in the beginning, Steem currencies are too hard to come by to risk losing them if you didn't do all your calculations correctly and then get really lucky on top of everything.)

My husband and I have discussed often -- and at length -- what we would do with various options of leased steem, but nothing really looked worth pursuing -- not for ourselves, not what we could offer the community of decent content providers -- of which we definitely need more on Steemit. This post will reopen those discussions. We're already talking about it and looking into it. Thank you so much for writing and publishing this post this morning!!

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