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...and you get Steem Monsters cards too. 

Really, the voting is just intended to be *one* of the benefits of being a @cryptogamestrat customer, but at least at the moment it's a pretty great benefit that I wish people were taking more advantage of. <a href="https://steemit.com/steemmonsters/@cryptogamestrat/holiday-special-sign-up-for-steem-monsters-and-get-two-free-cards-pus-upvotes-and-giveaways">The current signup offer</a> includes free cards, entries into drawings for more free cards, and of course you get all of the regular Steem Monsters benefits like cards, gameplay, and at the moment 10% of purchases back in Steem Power. 

But what I want to talk about in a post here is the upvoting, because I feel like there's a ton of value there that people should be taking advantage of. We don't have nearly enough users yet to use all of our voting power, and if you're a follower of my blog you'll know that drives me a little bit nuts. I hate to see an account sitting at 100%.

Just a starter-pack purchase through the <a href="https://steemmonsters.com/?ref=cryptogamestrat">affiliate link</a> is enough to get you a lifetime daily vote from the @cryptogamestrat account, which currently has 768 SP and is using all its posting and curation rewards to grow the account. (Plus I'm going to put a little more in there when it's not going to waste.) That's just short of a 2c vote at the moment.

Compare to Steem Basic Income, where $10 spent will get you 26 shares and a weekly upvote value of just six cents. If you post every day, CGS membership will get you more than twice as much value. Of course, we don't promise that vote will keep its value relative to Steem; when we get enough members the votes won't come at 100% voting power all the time. But like I said, we're a long way from that right now.

Especially since that's just a side benefit. You still get the Steem Monsters starter pack that you paid for, as well as $1 worth of SP in your own account from the Steem Monsters team. You'll get two really useful free cards from us. And you'll get strategy posts, news and updates from other cryptocurrency games, and giveaways on the @cryptogamestrat account. Plus some future customer-only benefits that I'm working on behind the scenes at the moment.

<h3>So <a href="https://steemmonsters.com/?ref=cryptogamestrat">sign up through our link</a> to get started!</h3>
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<sub>So far there's no porcupine-based Monster, but maybe soon.</sub>