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Today's edition of The Daily Sneak is curated by @josephsavage. @josephsavage is the regular editor for The Daily Sneak, but very rarely provides the curation himself. He very much prefers to reward guest curators!
@josephsavage is also the program manager for @steembasicincome. @steembasicincome strives to use the Steem reward mechanisms to create a sustainable basic income for everyone.

Let's get to the highlighted content!

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Manna Update: The Time Is Almost Here

@taskmaster4450 has been providing regular updates and information about Manna. This is an important update... it's time to go sign up if you haven't- Manna is coming soon! Manna is an interesting basic income initiative that is funded by donations to a non-profit. We're keeping a close eye on it.

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How Much SBD Are You Losing Every Day?

@themanwithnoname talks about post promotion and then walks through a paint-by-numbers example of bidding bot usage. It turns out that even with a pretty good usage strategy, bidding bots are just barely profitable. I've written previously about paid upvotes as futures contracts, and this highlights that really well.

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Calling all Minnows!

I love initiatives that help minnows to get traction and increase their success on Steem! This is a new initiative that is just starting out... use the tag and they will review your posts and resteem it if they think it's good! Free resteems for quality content for minnows? @markkennard, thanks for showing us this fantastic initiative!

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Legally Yours & Steem Cartoon : Protecting Your Intellectual Property II

Last, but definitely not least, we have an overview of copyright law (part of a multi-post series) from @perennial. It's important to realize that while we're posting to a public, censorship resistant blockchain, we should still be respectful of copyright laws. If you think they can't be enforced, just wait until the free image-hosting from Steemit is subjected to a neat stack of cease&desist letters! So check out this post for some guidelines that will keep you out of trouble (and maybe help you decide whether something should be upvoted or flagged).

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Conclusion

Today's selections were brought to you by me, @josephsavage, your resident editor for The Daily Sneak. I don't often curate the highlighted selections myself, but when I do I find the best! Well.... obviously I would think that. So let me know what you think in the comments- and visit the posts and let their amazing authors know what you think, too!

Each of these highlighted articles receives full upvotes and resteems from @sneakyninja. As an added bonus, @sneakyninja sponsors featured writers for Steem Basic Income!

Submission Requirements

1. You can choose from 2 to 5 articles for your entry. Submissions with only one selected article will be ignored.
2. All articles chosen for curation need to have been published within the last 5 days before your entry. It may take time for me to publish your curation, and curated articles need to be within the reward window when your submission is published.
3. You cannot submit your own post for curation. Selections from nsfw will not be accepted.
4. Selected posts should have less than $50 in total rewards and have not previously been curated by The Daily Sneak.
5. We try to spread the love around, so while selections from authors that have been highlighted before are welcome, they might not be included if the author's last inclusion was recent. Similarly, if you include two articles from the same author in one submission, we will typically highlight only one of the two.
6. Be sure to include your personal bio for me to introduce you to readers, and make sure that each selection has commentary. This can be just a few sentences about why you think the selection is worth our attention, or what is great about it - something that will make people want to click through the headline and check out the actual article. English is preferred, but other languages will be considered as long as English translation is included.
7. Please use this web form to submit your entry. https://goo.gl/forms/VH2MGIMEgqZmd9ef1
8. Including image links to the source article is not required (and we prefer to leave some mystery if photography is highlighted and the article has only one photo.) However, we like to include images in The Daily Sneak, and not including any image links may decrease the likelihood of your submissions being published.

If you include more than 2 articles in your submission and not all are approved for publication, your submission may still be published into an edition of The Daily Sneak, as long as at least 2 articles are approved. This could happen for several different reasons. If you are unsure why an article was cut, please review the submission guidelines again. If you are still unsure, feel free to ask politely why it was cut.

Submission Reward

A brief biography of each guest curator will be included in the edition that uses their submission. In addition, each guest curator will receive 1 SBD for each article from their submission that is highlighted in The Daily Sneak. That's up to 5 SBD for each accepted submission!

Right now @sneakyninja's upvote is not worth as much as we are paying for guest curation. Why do we pay so much for guest curation? We believe that quality curation is very important to Steem. Paying our curators well encourages them to spend more time reviewing content and picking out the best pieces!

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