The Curation Reward Is HIGHLY Dependant on your steem power. and also your voting power. If you have under 20 steem power you have to be really early to make much from upvotes.
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I have been first (second if you count author) up vote on about 10 posts that have broken over 5k and still have no curation rewards. Would you know why? Any help would be so helpful.