7-13-2020
Posting picture could be very problematic on blurt until they reduce fees, which likely will not happen to soon. I'm still going to give it another week , maybe two.
Three days ago I transferred 40 liquid blurt, I did two post, voted ten witnesses, started a power down, and cast several votes and now I have 37.694 liquid blurt.
That is 3.306 blurt used.
Author rewards pre-fee = 0.249 BLURT POWER
Curation rewards so far = 0.000 BLURT POWER
The rewards are all pre Fee days so far. So I'll take a look again next Monday and see how it all balances out.
So not really a viable option, but I will see where it all goes over the next few days or weeks. But right now it does not seem to be a very cost effective system for me being only a small account.
My first non picture included post.
I did notice that my liquid balance had been dropping, but I have no idea what each kind of transaction even costs. Does seem though, that if the fees are that high, it will discourage post creation and definitely engagement. And that sort of defeats the whole purpose, doesn't it?
I think it does, I am going to try not to add any more liquid, and look at it again after a full 7 days has passed to see what the results are, and I just realized I did not note the amount of Blurt power I have so thanks for the response, so in seven days from now I will check the balances and compare.
Current Blurt:
There now I have a real starting point and time.
@bashadow @denmarkguy
I tried today (see my last post) and the total fee was 0.012 Blurts... so the fees went down... hopefully this is the level they will keep...
The fees should go down. They are actually adjusted by the witnesses. Each witness votes for two fees. There's an operation fee and a bandwidth fee. The operation fee is a flat fee that gets charged for every operation. The bandwidth fee gets charged depending on the amount of data contained in an operation, so a huge post costs more than a short post.
You can check this page and see what each witness has set for fees.
https://witness.blurt.tools/
The resulting fee is the median of all the fees set by the witnesses.
I noticed today that a vote costs 0.002 Blurt. It was a lot more than that a few days ago when the fees first came out.
With there being a fee for every transaction, and I am just guessing that claiming rewards in the wallet is a transaction, just like powering up or down, that pretty much means no curation rewards for the small accounts. Pretty much no net reward for voting. The only accounts that seem to be benefiting from voting/curating are the larger accounts.
That being said, I am still here, still evaluating the cost effectiveness. Maybe I should join the dobartim crowd at least they are making 6.00 + on most of their post. (not gonna happen)