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There is a minimum amount of either author or curation reward that a post or comment must earn for you to get paid. I didn’t know this when I started and wondered why my smallest rewards didn’t show up in my wallet after seven days. If your rewards earned are less then 0.020 you don’t get paid. Those rewards are called “dust”. That’s frustrating because that reward of 0.019 might be your first author reward, but it doesn’t get paid to you. Sadly all you need is 0.001 more to get paid.
 Fortunately there is a solution called “dustsweeper”.

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You get rid of dust rewards with a program called “dust sweeper”. “Dust sweeper” is a bot; A bot is an automatic computer program which performs a function or carries out a transaction. If you pay the “Dustsweeper” fee, the “dust sweeper” ”bot” checks each of your post author rewards, your curation rewards and your comment rewards on day # 6 and if any are less then 0.02 and it upvotes them enough to get paid. This eliminates the “dust rewards”. So now you get paid a little for each post you write or comment you make. And l think these small payments mean a lot when your new. 


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How does it work?
You pay 1 SBD and the bot uses your money to upvote your posts at the dust reward level until it’s almost gone, then it messages you in your wallet to pay some more. 
You might be thinking your just getting your own money back, but that’s not the whole story. The upvote is added onto the existing upvote rewards which are less then 0.02. So you get your money plus the upvotes. Which is a net gain every time. 
Follow this link to sign up✍️:

https://steemit.com/community/@palikari123/dust-sweeper-turn-dust-votes-into-profit



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References

1. Dust sweeper Explained: 

https://steemit.com/community/@palikari123/dust-sweeper-turn-dust-votes-into-profit

2. Dust sweeper FAQ: 
https://steemit.com/dustsweeper/@dustsweeper/dustsweeper-

3. Dust sweeper update: https://steemit.com/community/@danielsaori/dustsweeper-update-send-gifts-to-users