RE: Hey Blurt... just discovered something with your wallet...

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Hey Blurt... just discovered something with your wallet...

in blurt •  4 years ago  (edited)

I think the bandwidth fee/tax is going to be the most problematic of all the fees. pictures are not small, videos are not small. I have taken to trying to reduce my pictures in file size and that means a loss on the quality side of the image.

I understand some of the reasoning for the fees, and I hope they decrease as they are saying in the discord room. In the mean time, I feel that now I am forced to self vote on all my post otherwise they end up being posted at a net loss if no one else votes. Even with that I am not sure how much staked blurt I need in order to over come the posting fee yet or if they have a dust vote threshold.

So now I pretty much feel a self vote is needed, and post should have no more than one pictures or the cost of posting is just to much.

edit: Also I think comments on post will also take a hit since there is a fee/tax also to let people know what you think and how well you liked their post or picture. When i figure out the vote levels and how many I can make a day I and if I will not just be burning up liquid blurt then I will vote as many comments as I can to help off set the cost of the commenter.

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  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Glad to see I'm not the only one who has second thoughts on this...
You saw my discussion in Discord... under helpdesk...
And yes, there is a threshold of 0.02...
PS: I have your back on your posts... I'm following and will upvote you above the threshold...( and voting costs also 😳)

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Thanks, it looks like 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, 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

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.