How to get a 100% whale vote on your post: use Whaleshares! A SteemGig Contest entry
Whaleshares is a way to make a whale vote on a Steemit post. It could be a great option for those Steemians who need to get more visibility, improve their Steem Power and earn higher rewards.
To get a whale vote you just get Whaleshare tokens and send them to a whale using whaleshares.net service.
Whaleshares differ from other recent post boosting initiatives in two important aspects:
- You can get a whale vote with as much voting power percents as you wish. One Whaleshare = one percent, 100 Whaleshare = 100 percents! With that much your post could make to the hot page.
- You don’t necessarily need STEEM or SBD to get Whaleshares as is the case with other boosting projects. You can win them for free in a contest like this or exchange using other cryptos you happen to have.
In fact, if you buy Whaleshares with a cryptocurrency other than STEEM/SBD, you actually contribute to the Steem ecosystem because you bring value into it.
By using Whaleshares you also help whales to keep their Steem Power high by eliminating the need to power down, which is also beneficial to the Steemiverse as it helps the price of STEEM go up.
So Whaleshares is a win-win solution both for minnows and whales. This post will show you how to get and use them to boost your posts.
1. How to get Whaleshares
There are two ways of acquiring Whaleshares: winning them in a contest or buying them for bitshares or other crypto.
To win Whaleshares keep an eye on #whaleshares tag for coming contests or ask around in the project’s Discord chat.
To buy Whaleshares:
- If you don’t yet have a bitshares wallet, get one at openledger.
- Convert your cryptocurrency to bitshares using blocktrades.
- Exchange bitshares for whaleshares using bitshares exchange.
Blocktrades is a simple and quick exchange service. You could use another exchange, but @blocktrades method is so fast and straightforward.
So, after you get a bitshares account, first go to Blocktrades:
And then go to your Steemit wallet:
Don’t send STEEM/SBD directly to @openledger (there are older guides suggesting that). I tried it and it didn’t work. Openledger’s Deposit feature didn’t work for me either.
If you have a crypto other that STEEM/SBD, exchange it for bitshares using blocktrades or other service you like.
After you get your hands on bitshares, convert them to Whaleshares using bitshares exchange.
2. How to use Whaleshares
So, by now you are a proud Whaleshares owner. Now go to whaleshares.net and generate a memo for the transaction, then come back to your bitshares wallet and send your Whaleshares to a user named whaleshares with that memo. Remember, one Whaleshare = one percent of voting power and you can send any amount up to 100 Whaleshares.
So first you prepare your memo at whaleshares.net:
And finally you send Whaleshares:
Always use whaleshares.net to generate a memo because the memo contents could change as the project evolves.
Currently there are two whales available for voting, @officialfuzzy with the Whaleshare token and @fuzzyvest with the Beyondbits token (which works the same way as Whaleshare but has a bigger Steem Power for the same price for limited time).
Notes
- Always check a whale’s voting power before using Whaleshares / Beyondbits.
- Double check everything and try a small amount first.
- I didn't calculate the profitability of using Whaleshares as there are many factors at play.
- I disclaim responsibility for possible mistakes and losses which could happen from the use of this tutorial.
Useful links
Special thanks to @eirik for pointing me at @blocktrades.
Your feedback and ideas on Whaleshares project and website are more than welcome!
Related post: 5 Most Important Tools To Make Your Steemit Account Grow
Is there a way to trade between whaleshares and beyondbits?
Tried that but the order wasn't fulfilled in an hour so I cancelled it.
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Cool guide mate! We need as many good guides as possible to grow our discord channel. Thank you!
And it is very cool that you have found blocktrades! :)
Thanks @eirik for this creative service!)
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I disagree with this whole thing. Paying Whales to promote your articles?
What happened to things competing on relative merit?
Why turn Steemit into a pay-for-eyeballs enterprise? I can just go on Facebook and get ads to do that. I shouldn't have to revert to that behavior here.
It just seems dishonest and artificial to me. Just like regurgitating old posts under the guise of them being "new". If you are creative, you don't need these tricks, you just post things that are worthwhile and original.
It saddens me to see this kind of thing, honestly.
Leaving other reasons aside, post boosters solve an important problem. When a newcomer writes an elaborated post putting her entire soul and many hours of work into it and gets a few cents, it hurts. On the other side, getting a few dollars, even of you've put some into it before, feels if not worth then at least reasonable, because facebook pays nothing anyway.
I know I'm new, but someone can vote on a post at any time after its created, correct?
If someone is consistent in posting quality content, doesn't that yield followers who then check what else that person has been up to?
I don't understand why getting money up front should be the motivation. That seems counter to the overall message I've been reading about "don't concentrate on the money as a beginner" that I see posted everywhere.
You either believe in your posts, or you don't.
Using something to pump up their visibility is just dishonest trickery. Let it rise or fall on its own merits.
When you are new, you don't have much visibility. People would be glad to upvote you if you create good content, but they can't know your're there. That's why an initial boost is important. If one has not much friends on Steemit and doesn't want to play the "vote2vote" game, then boosting is definitely an option to get some initial visibility.
But "purchased" votes can be put on anything. Someone could write a 2 sentence post, then just pay a bunch of people to vote on it, massively increasing the payout, whether it deserves it or not.
Looking at the comments on this post, I'd say there are far too many of these "paid voting services" as you've got what? FIVE? SIX? And this post has earned $37 in less than a day for it.
I feel it discourages those of us who are putting out consistently good content and not paying people to vote. VP is more precious after HF19, so are all the whales just gonna start selling it? Gotta say I side with @talltim on this one.
@thatsweeneyguy I am experimenting with post boosters to compare the results. I'm not a minnow outside Steemit and 38 dollars isn't something I am chasing for)
Thanks for explaining all these. It was all mystery for me until now.
You're welcome!