RE: The cloak of visibility: Bidbots and other lies
On the 12.3.2018 this was created by the blockchain for rewards
STEEM 47698
SBD 47958.43
sourceOn the same day: 2018-03-12 was sent to the known bidbots.
7,328 STEEM
47,245 SBD
sourceThat means on that day, only 700 more SBD and 40,000 more STEEM was created than sent to bidbots. Those bots than voted more than what was sent and collected curation.
OK seriously that is completely insane. I knew that the bid bots were making serious profits, but this is without question an insane profit to be earning.
You have said over and over that you don't like the bots, but putting the numbers together like this is what I needed to see.
That's it, my current post will not get any bid bot action and I will resist the urge to do future ones. Going to spend more time on content vs trying to time a bid bot. Do like seeing the large payouts each time, but really it's just been a refund of my money.
When I saw it, I couldn't believe it. I still think I am missing something. I put the sources there for others to check just in case.
I'm going to have to look at the numbers later when I have time. But guessing you did your homework so trusted them.
@thedarkhorse, it's a real eye-opener right??!! My gut has been telling me that it's not in our best interest to use, but that's not much of an explanation for someone who uses them and disagrees with me...and I'm not talking about you here! Thank you @tarazkp for giving me the numbers to dispel the myth that so many hold here!
Oh I'm guilty of using them and trying to play catch up to all the larger accounts on here. Really want to get myself to a point where my online/digital income streams allow me to travel the world. Goal right now is a 2 year time frame and I'm not counting on steemit for any of that. Would be amazing to grow this to something that would be an additional stream of income to make these travels even more enjoyable. So using the bots to push posts up made sense to me. But these numbers are truly mind blowing. Talk about the rich get richer.
You're only guilty of trying to improve or accelerate you and your families travel plans.
That pretty much says it all!!