I'm seeing it happen everyday! How you ask?

What 100% Power Up pays.

Say your post makes $12. Of that you get $10 after curators get their cut.

With Steem at $2.50 each, you'd get 4 steem power or $10. Now look at what you'd get from a 50/50 payout split where half is steem power and half are steem dollars.

What a 50/50 post pays.

We'll use the same scenario. You made $12 on the post and got $10 after curators.

Half goes to steem power. I.e. $5 = 2 steem power @ $2.50 each.

Half come as steem dollars. But steemit pays this as if one steem dollar equaled one US dollar. So you get 5 SBD.

To be conservative, right now one steem dollar is worth $10 US. So your 5 SBD earn you $50 US.

The same post, set to 50/50 payout just earned you $60 instead of $10.

Don't loose out on your fifty bucks!

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