Hi guys, welcome back after "successful" HF20 deployment. Let's get straight to business ;)
Voting Power Depleted
HF20 introduced a bug that basically made voting power of almost every steem user drop to about 15% levels. You can read about it on the @steemitblog post here:
https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/update-on-unexpected-voting-power-behavior
During the implementation of the Resource Credit system, voting power was rescaled and no scaling factor was added to ensure a consistent user experience. This was an oversight on our part and for this we apologize. Again, this behavior is a one time issue that will resolve itself over the next 5 days.
This basically means that @tipU won't be able to vote for the next 3 days which imples no profit generated for the SP delegators and investors. Please note that almost every steem user and service, including all other voting bots, is affected by this bug. It's gonna be interesting to see how the trending page looks without them for the next few days ;)
There's gonna be some small profit coming from the curation rewards but it's far less (about 7%) than the profit generated from vote buyers.
According to the current calculations, the voting will resume in 65 hours from now.
Swap Functionality
Just a reminder - you can send any amount of STEEM or SBD to @tipU with memo: swap and @tipU will automatically resend you the other currency (STEEM to SBD and SBD to STEEM).
The exchange price is the same as on the internal market as @tipU actually trades the amount of SBD/STEEM that you send (simple trading bot). The functionality hasn't been officially announced yet but it's ready to go - feel free to test it. More info:
https://steemit.com/bot/@tipu/tipu-testing-swap-quick-sbd-steem-exchange
New Feature
Investors will now be able to choose how often they want to receive the payouts. By deafult it's every 24 hours but it can be changed to any value between 1 hour and 240 hours (10 days).
To do this, simply send 0.001 SBD to @tipU with memo: pay every X hours where X is the amount of hours. I'm waiting for the HF20 dust to settle so I can properly announce and describe the feature. Of course with voting paused, it won't work as intended but it's good to know that it's already implemented :)