Blurt does NOT "dust" (negate) small payouts!

Every vote on Blurt counts! We don't "dust" small rewards like Steem and Hive do, and I will demonstrate that in this post.

For over a week, I've been doing research and experiments about Blurt's curation, voting power, and rewards. You can read about a lot of it in this post if you're interested.

Something which came up is the concept of "dusting", which on Steem and Hive refers to the cancellation of any payout less than a certain base amount, generally $0.02 (2 cents). It seems like a minor detail, but it can have major implications. For example, on Steem and Hive you don't consistently earn curation rewards until you've grown to a certain size (to generate rewards of at least 2 cents). This makes it hard to grow... a vicious circle that discourages newcomers.

I remember when the token price was low a few years ago, and I still hadn't built up much of a following, my posts and comments often made less than $0.02, and then got dusted down to zero. Sometimes, even voting on my own posts, plus the combined rewards from a few other small voters, my posts would pay out nothing because of this rule. I had invested thousands of dollars and years of daily content creation into the blockchain, but wasn't able to grow because most of my payouts were dusted to nothing!

Blurt doesn't do that. All payouts, no matter how small, are awarded to the creator (50%) and curators (50%).

Of course, my votes are worth about $0.25 now, and in no danger of being dusted even if Blurt had that policy. But we don't. This is great news for new users! It means every vote you make is going to pay out, and you're going to get a share of the rewards. Even if you're tiny, you matter on Blurt! We also don't have downvotes here, so once you vote on a post or comment, when it hits 7 days old, the author and you will split that payout. Nobody can come along and cancel out your curation rewards with a downvote, like happens often on Hive.

On Blurt, we pay a small fee for every action, including curation. This means it's impossible to "dust" payouts, since the fee effectively guarantees a payout. Once a post or comment has any amount of pending rewards, unless all curators remove their votes, the payout will occur.

Not only will you grow faster because your post and comment payouts don't get dusted down to zero, but you grow faster because your small votes don't get dusted down to zero either, and generate you curation rewards!

Here it is in action:

There's a comment of mine from 7 days ago, just before it paid out.

There it is AFTER it paid out, showing the same amount (0.29 BLURT for the creator and 0.29 BLURT for curators). On Steem or Hive that would now say 0.00.

At that exact moment, this 0.29 BLURT payment arrived in my wallet (25% in liquid BLURT and 75% in BP).

0.29 BLURT is currently worth $0.001 USD (one tenth of a cent). Instead of being reduced to zero and added back into the reward pool (to be distributed to richer/bigger accounts), on Blurt it goes to you. It may not seem like much, but every bit helps, especially for newer and smaller users!

Just another reason why Blurt is the #1 blogchain!

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