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RE: Is it possible to use Steemit without accruing interest payments?
The steem dollars have been earning 0% interest for quite a while now. You can't avoid receiving SBD for comments, but if ypu are worried, or if the interest rate becomes nonzero again, you can just immediately convert those steem dollars to steem power.
Oh great, that makes it simple! When would interest payments get made? Is it on a monthly basis? Or do you have to be pretty vigilant to transfer your funds into steem power asap?
I'm not positive, usually they are made once you make a transaction, but it's been a long time since I have received interest since the rate has been zero for so long. Also, I'm not intimately familiar with Muslim culture, but I think the INTENTION of the rule against interest would not include these types of payments. They are really just called interest, because it's easier to understand it in terms of rate of return when the interest rate is nonzero, but no one is actually paying you interest. It is more like mining cryptocurrency with proof of stake in a sense. All of the SBD "interest" that you earn is newly created from that days reward pool and a portion of it is given to reward those who hold steem dollars. Trust me, my friend, there is no usury about this process and you are not taking money from any other person, it is part of the reward mechanism, and it was called interest because it's easier to understand it that way.
Ah, thanks for that. I was a bit confused because if I was receiving interest from it, I wasn't entirely sure who I would be loaning it to. It sounds to me more like dividends from owning shares than interest earned off a loan. I'll have to do more reading!