RE: STEEM's Bidbot Business Income Analysis 2018 YTD
Hi @paulag, great follow-up to the previous report! October seems to be again a strong month for the bots, but we'll have to wait for the data before drawing final conclusions. From what I've read elsewhere, vote buying profitability had better times than now. I haven't had a chance to look into it myself - did you have a look by chance? The changes to curation rewards are (or will be) interesting with HF20. While it previously was highly profitable to have a bot vote shortly after post creation (with close to 0 curation rewards for the bot), this advantage is now gone with HF20. Authors could maximize their rewards by having the bot votes shortly after the selfvote, but at least several minutes after creation - and this automatically means also better curation rewards for the bots.
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I think for October I only took the first 15 days so its a partial month. I wanted to included it to see if HF20 had any major impact but other than that I would have excluded it.
I have not looked into the profitability of vote buying, but I have also heard that its under a bit of 'pressure'
What would be interesting to add would be a follow up on the post you did a few months back on what portion of the rewards pool bots and autovoting distribute, I wonder has that changed much now?
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