Hard Fork 19 (HF19) Is hours away, time to get your vote on!!
A great change is about to befall the Steemit community, an equality for all to truly use your Steem Power in the right manner. But there are key things about this HF19 upgrade that you may need to be aware of and I will do my best here to point out the important sides to this hard fork that I think everyone should be aware of. This HF will go into effect on Tuesday, June 20th, 2017 at 15:00:00 UTC (less than 24 hours)
LINEAR VOTING
HF19 is a huge benefit to those in the lower range of Steem Power ownership here in Steemit. Before this fork the factors to the system sort of leveraged more influence towards the larger Steem Power holders. This is of course understandable due to the fact they worked hard to invest hard here but concerns arose from the top down that new users aren't enjoying Steemit due to this side of the system in place. New users have found that their voting power doesn't have much effect while being a newbie so to even out the playing field, Steemit is going towards a more linear ratio to spread the potential around for everyone to upvote and impact on their choices.
This linear approach should make everyone have a more equal say as to what content deserves the voting system rewards and I suspect will further make new users content to know there is an equal opportunity for all. Some have referred to this as “1 Steem Power, 1 Vote.” So the more Steem Power still gives you an upper hand and I believe this approach should further encourage users to hold as much Steem Power and thus growing Steemit for the future.
KEEPING A WATCHFUL EYE ON STEEM VOTING POWER
Voting power seems to be a hit and miss side to Steemit I find when I chat with users. Some are aware of it and others don't realize when they vote they are depreciating their underlying voting power which takes time to accumulate back. This holds a lot in the curation rewards and if you have 100% voting power your also in turn helping others earn more and they get less and less as that voting power goes down. I won't break down where its at currently seeing its hours for the change with the HF coming but I will break it down what to expect in this area after HF and how to check your voting power stats.
AS it stands with HF19, a single 100% vote will use 2% of your remaining voting power, meaning that 10 full-power votes a day will now max out all your voting power. I believe they will let you leverage per vote how much of that power you use with a slider but don't quote me on that if its in place, its a rumor I heard. This means if you use 100% you will have to wait I believe 24 hours for your power to regain itself. That is the rough basics I heard so far.
So how do you check your voting power? steemd.com is how I do it.
https://steemd.com/@sflaherty is my stat page, you just replace @sflaherty with your username and you will get to your page. In there if you look on the menu to the left side of the page...there is a VOTING POWER listing with the percentage you remain to have. This I would keep tabs on so you know where your at anyways, HF or not its a wise tool to remember with Steemit.
TIME TO START GROWING YOUR STEEM POWER
The biggest thing about this I love is the equality about to form over the community. I believe we will see more people wanting to grow their Steem Power to give more upvotes and help each other out, and really drive hard workers out there some income along the way. The best thing you can do is save back Steem Power always with Steemit but now I believe the lower guys will start seeing the impact of their Power Ups a little swifter.
Remember, we are still in BETA here and there are probably many more amazing features to come, but I commend the dev team on this and even the steemit whales for backing it and spreading some equality to Steemit. Looks like tomorrow will be a Steemit adventure, kind of feel like a kid before XMAS here!
~sflaherty
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For those wanting to get more Steem Power, I did create an article today showing users how to mine through Nicehash and send it to Blocktrades to automatically get Steem Power for your wallets. This maybe a great read for all later, as it pertains to a way to get you more Steem Power coming in and Steem power is going to be a huge factor for your HF19 needs. Here is the link to that article:
How I Mine for Steem Power and Get Weekly SP Boosts: Nicehash ➥ Blocktrades ➥ Steemit Wallet 😁
https://steemit.com/blocktrades/@sflaherty/how-i-mine-for-steem-power-and-get-weekly-sp-boosts-nicehash-blocktrades-steemit-wallet