Steem Basic Income - Updated Transaction Memo Guidelines
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.
New Transaction Memo Guidelines
Thanks to amazing development help from @holger80 (click to support his work by voting for him as a witness), we have been making great progress on our development roadmap again.
We now have a test system in place that is building member records from transaction history. That makes now a good time to refresh and update our transaction memo guidelines for enrollment memos!
You only need the @ and username of your sponsee in the transaction memo (e.g. @josephsavage). It's fine to send a list, but we prefer a comma after each name. (@josephsavage, @sneakyninja). Please keep a balanced share count per member if you send a list (i.e. 2 STEEM with 2 names, 6 STEEM with 3 names, 9 STEEM with 3 names, etc.). If you want to sponsor multiple members with different share counts, please break it into separate transactions.
These examples are both perfect! Comma separated @ list, with the number of sponsees matching the amount of STEEM, or separate transactions with 1 STEEM sent for each member are both perfect. Model your transactions after either of these and you will be fine!
This is great, too! We will recognize the 5 STEEM and add five shares to both sponsor and sponsee!
These were fine during manual processing, but to simplify the development for automation, we need a more consistent format. Specifying 'sponsorship' or explaining your transaction is no needed. The @ is optional if you are sending a single name, but to ensure accurate processing, please always include it for each user-name in a list.
Please do not include other wording in your enrollment memos, especially names of other users that are not the persons being sponsored!
We also support special sponsorship transactions. Many members for their contests have asked about setting a separate sponsee as the 'sponsor' for the second share. This is supported via '@sponsor:@sponsee'. For example, a transaction comes from @josephsavage with a transaction memo that reads "@katysavage : @babysavage". This would be interpreted as @katysavage sponsoring @babysavage, even though the transaction came from @josephsavage.
You could also use this to submit enrollment transactions through @blocktrades or other exchanges. If you withdraw to @steembasicincome with transaction in this format, you can still receive credit for sponsoring (or sponsor people anonymously by having neither name be from you!)
These updated guidelines facilitate the automation for enrollments. We are making good progress toward automation, but enrollments are currently processed manually.
The official currency for enrollment is still STEEM. We are not currently accepting SBD for enrollments. Please allow up to 7 days for your enrollment to be processed..
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Hi @steembasicincome. Thanks for the update. I sponsored @funbobby51 10 days ago and have not seen that the addition of our shares has been processed. Are you running behind or was it missed? Thanks.
We were running behind and have been working to catch up. This should have been processed now and welcome transactions sent.
Got it. Thanks!
I used to be able to enter the username in the tool. It doesn't let me anymore....
You have to make a copy of the tool into your own Google Drive now. We had some vandalism issues and had to shut down making changes to our copy.
Thank you. Worked like a charm.
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To support your work, I also upvoted your post!
I didn't receive any upvotes from sbi3 for my posts yesterday. I wonder why. Is there any way to find out why? Thanks!
Looks like your vote is back today. So, maybe there was a hiccup somewhere yesterday. I really don't know what happened, but don't worry about it. Thanks!
We are currently using @steemauto for upvote delivery on most of the pools, and they were experiencing some server issues for a few days. Everything should be working now.
I see. So, that's where the problem was. Thank you for your reply. Much appreciated.
I see automation on the horizon. 👍👍
This is good new guys. Keep it up this is a good project.
Thanks for your support!
Great to see the community continuing to grow; think it may be time for me to have another contest/giveaway when I roll over 500 followers!
Keep up the good work-- one of Steemit's best initiatives!
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Thanks for your support! We think it's a good initiative too, but there may be some bias in our opinion... ;)
Don't go on vacation or take a break folks; you'll lose your income.
That limitation does exist in our current design, but we have a plan to resolve that problem once our full automation is ready.
Thanks for the info! Thumbs up!
Money laundering! O.o ;)
Theoretically, you could already do that through @blocktrades. Somebody interested in money laundering would find this to be an unnecessary complication. Particularly because we do not support on-demand refunds in most scenarios. It would be much easier (and have shorter recuperation times) to launder through bid-bots.
But bid-bots (and the chain) show where from and to the money went.
In case of exchanges you have to look at the cahin AND into the exchanges.
For blocktrades it is also a 1=1 transfer each time, you always know where a certain amount wnet to??
What if somebody used blocktrades to exchange LTC or another crypto into SBD and had it sent to a bid-bot with post in the transaction memo? Do they offer enough transparency that it could be traced?