Is there a limit in a day to the number of accounts I can sponsor in Hive SBI? How about sponsoring my wife and second son's accounts? Is this allowed?

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I think around two days ago, I came across two Hivians who are somehow related to Hive SBI. I struggle to understand how this token works, so today I am doing a test by sending one $HIVE to @steembasicincome sponsoring @greywarden100. However, these questions bother me:

 
> Is there a limit in a day to the number of accounts I can sponsor? How about sponsoring my wife and second son's accounts? Is this allowed? 

 

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There is no limit. You can even sponsor yourself.

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Really? So did they already change the policy? I thought they don't allow sponsoring your own account.

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Hmm, I don't think I'm mistaken about this, but haven't used SBI in a long time. Let's ask @josephsavage for some help. :)

Anyway, sponsoring yourself kind of defeats the purpose of sponsoring another account. But you can sponsor people you know (and repeatedly). I know @jongolson used to reward members of the CTP community with SBI units in the past.

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Self-sponsoring has never been supported (a transaction memo specifying the account the transaction is from will cause the transaction to error in our system and no units will be granted until we can get in and manually assign the sponsee).

Sponsoring wife, family members, etc. is fine.

The answers to these questions (and more!) are available in our official documentation at https://docs.hivesbi.com

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Self-sponsoring has never been supported

I don't know why I was in error about this. Anyway, that's not how I used it back in the day... Glad it's cleared up!

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Yeah, I just saw it yesterday. I received SBI several times from @jongolson in the past and he also sent me one two days ago.

!PIZZA

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Good to know that you sponsored 1 HIVE each to the Hive accounts of your wife and son. 🤓😏

!PIZZA !CTP

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Self-sponsoring has never been supported (a transaction memo specifying the account the transaction is from will cause the transaction to error in our system and no units will be granted until we can get in and manually assign the sponsee).

Sponsoring wife, family members, etc. is fine.

The answers to these questions (and more!) are available in our official documentation at https://docs.hivesbi.com

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Great question !

As far as I know, there's no limit, either daily or in total. The more people contribute to the project, the more HIVE it'll generate to deliver earnings. Plus, for each SBI you buy someone you get a bonus unit of your own. There are people with thousands of SBI's - one day I'll get there ! 

The way it works is that each user's SBI's generate a vote value which gradually increases over time. When they post, some of that vote value is used to create an upvote. The vote value stored is reduced by that amount, and carries on building up. There is a minimum upvote, but once you've got a few SBI's that really isn't an issue unless you're making huge numbers of posts.

It's worth remembering that you're buying SBI's, so it's a permanent transaction, not like a delegation that you can recall when you want. You also need to take a long view; it'll probably take a year or two before the earnings delivered covers the initial cost of the SBI's, but after that it's all pure income.

A good place to look is https://www.hivesbi.com/ - you can see how many units and bonus units you've got, plus estimates for your next vote and total delivered so far.

All in all, I'm a big fan of the SBI project. They are a great way to give rewards to people and give something back to the community; I aim to sponsor about 4 SBI's a week (2 for creative writing in the Worldbuilders community, and from 1 to 3 in the #SaturdaySavers weekly author rewards).

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