Crowd-incubation for growth in the Steem ecosystem: Developer Delegation Day #9

Tomorrow, May 5^th, is our 9^th Developer Delegation Day after the idea's inception last August.

In case you haven't seen it before, the idea behind Developer Delegation Day is to provide independent decentralized support for Steem's development ecosystem. Here's a summary from the original post:

On the 5th of each month, community members will delegate 5 STEEM Power (SP) to a Steem developer of their choice. This regular support helps sustain and incentivize the developers who will become the backbone of the Steem ecosystem.

The idea was inspired by subscription programs on platforms like Patreon, Substack or 𝕏, where content consumers pay a small monthly subscription price to support their favorite content producers. The 5 SP amount was suggested in order to make it easily affordable for most Steem participants. In comparison to the subscription programs on other platforms, delegations on Steem have the additional advantages that they continue to accrue interest for the delegator and that they can be returned to the owner at any time.

I'm posting a day early again due to scheduling constraints, so I've already made my delegations for May 5^th.

Here are my previous delegations:

Developer Account	Last Delegation Date	Last Delegation Amount	Current Total
@michelangelo3	2025-04-04	10 SP	40.235 SP
@moecki	2025-04-04	10 SP	45.315 SP
@rexthetech	2025-04-04	10 SP	25.067 SP
@steemchiller	2025-04-04	10 SP	45.315 SP
@the-gorilla	2025-04-04	10 SP	45.315 SP
Total	2025-04-04	50 SP	201.247 SP

And here are today's updates. As with last month, since prices are low, I'm increasing my delegation amount to 10 SP.

Here are the updated totals:

Developer Account	Last Delegation Date	Last Delegation Amount	Current Total
@michelangelo3	2025-05-04	10 SP	50.325 SP
@moecki	2025-05-04	10 SP	55.416 SP
@rexthetech	2025-05-04	10 SP	35.123 SP
@steemchiller	2025-05-04	10 SP	55.416 SP
@the-gorilla	2025-05-04	10 SP	55.416 SP
Total	2025-05-04	50 SP	251.696 SP

Who's going to join me in crowdsourcing a new, independent, and decentralized mechanism for support of the platform's developers?

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^{Steve Palmer is an IT professional with three decades of professional experience in data communications and information systems. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master's degree in computer science, and a master's degree in information systems and technology management. He has been awarded 3 US patents.}

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