# Welcome to Hive SBI

## Overview

Hive Stake Based Income (Hive SBI) is an account-based curation program. You sponsor accounts for regular ongoing curation, and then you receive back curation rewards as upvotes on your own content. This empowers both accounts to earn a sustainable crowdfunded basic income.

Members regularly accrue pending balance, and when their pending upvote balance is high enough, they receive an upvote on their latest post (or next post if their latest post is older than 24 hours), from one or more of our curation accounts.

## Quick links

{% content-ref url="overview/how-does-it-work" %}
[how-does-it-work](https://docs.hivesbi.com/overview/how-does-it-work)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="overview/what-should-you-do" %}
[what-should-you-do](https://docs.hivesbi.com/overview/what-should-you-do)
{% endcontent-ref %}

## Get Started

We've put together some helpful guides.

{% content-ref url="fundamentals/frequently-asked-questions" %}
[frequently-asked-questions](https://docs.hivesbi.com/fundamentals/frequently-asked-questions)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="fundamentals/transaction-memo-guidelines" %}
[transaction-memo-guidelines](https://docs.hivesbi.com/fundamentals/transaction-memo-guidelines)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="fundamentals/pending-balances-and-upvote-delivery" %}
[pending-balances-and-upvote-delivery](https://docs.hivesbi.com/fundamentals/pending-balances-and-upvote-delivery)
{% endcontent-ref %}

## Hive SBI Member Interviews

Gain inspiration from seeing how others are using Hive SBI to support their Hive journeys!

{% content-ref url="member-interviews/freecompliments" %}
[freecompliments](https://docs.hivesbi.com/member-interviews/freecompliments)
{% endcontent-ref %}

### SBI Member Interviews

Before Hive SBI, there was Steem Basic Income. Here are the original interviews that were published on Steem.

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| ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [tcpolymath](https://docs.hivesbi.com/member-interviews/tcpolymath) | [contrabourdon](https://docs.hivesbi.com/member-interviews/contrabourdon) | [enginewitty](https://docs.hivesbi.com/member-interviews/enginewitty) |
| shadowspub                                                          | freedompoint                                                              | r2cornell                                                             |
| solominer                                                           | mariannewest                                                              | tattoodjay                                                            |
| rishi556                                                            | jonnyla08                                                                 | ecoinstant                                                            |
| eturnerx                                                            | josephsavage                                                              | reinaldoverdu                                                         |
| holger80                                                            | dosdudes                                                                  | improv                                                                |
| andrewharland                                                       | f3nix                                                                     | dynamicgreentk                                                        |


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