Proxies

Steem lets you set a voting proxy using the command:

set_voting_proxy "my_account" "proxy_account" true

Since voting is essential in Steem, some questions this raises are:

• Are votes proxied both for witness voting and post voting?
• Are proxied votes for posts treated the same as a direct vote in terms of curating rewards?

If the answer is yes for number two, it would make sense for professional curators to compete for proxy votes from big shareholders in order to increase their own influence and efficacy, and it would in turn be interesting for big shareholders to proxy their votes to known successful curators in order to increase their earnings.