There are many ways to delegate Steem Power on Steem blockchain, one of them is with Steemconnect.
Delegating Steem Power
First, decide how much Steem Power you want to delegate and convert it into Vests.
What are Vests?
Steem Power is essentially Steem held in a fund. Vests are Shares in that fund.
Use this calculator to convert Steem Power to Vests.
I want to delegate 900 Steem Power so I will go to site and enter 900 Steem amount in respective field, and it will show up Vests amount.
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always calculate Vests before delegation, since Steem to Vests rate flunctuates
Once you get Vests amount, change details in the link given below.
https://steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=youraccount&delegatee=otheraccount&vesting_shares=vestsamount VESTS
Where "youraccount" is delegator — who is delegating Steem power, "otheraccount" is delegatee who is receiving delegation and "vestsamount" is Vests amount (i.e. Steem Power) you are delegating.
I (@libert) want to delegate Steem Power to @shivohum2015 so link will look like this.
https://steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=libert&delegatee=shivohum2015&vesting_shares=1839880.6565 VESTS
(Remember, there is space before VESTS word)
Go to the link and it will show you what you are going to do (Ha!).
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Click confirm and enter your active key (or master password but that's not recommended).
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Shh...don't look at my password
Click Sign In and you will get congratulations message.
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Checking If Delegatee Got Delegation
I have OCD, so you know.
go to https://steemd.com/@yoursteemusername and it will show you the delegation.
For example, https://steemd.com/@libert
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Undelegating Steem Power
There is already a very good guide on that by @raised2b, so I will just link it here.
Once you undelegate Steem Power there is 7 days cool down period, that means you will have to wait 7 days to get Steem Power back in your account after undelegating it.
If you have doubt or any kind of feedback, let me know in comments!
This was an awesome tutorial!! One thing in the following command :
https://steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=libert&delegatee=@shivohum2015&vesting_shares=1839880.6565 VESTS
For delegator there's no "@" before the username, but it's there before the username of the delegatee. Is that how it's supposed to be or was that just a slip of a character from the command?
I realized that command works same with or without "@". But, I have edited the post to avoid the confusion. Thank you for the catch :)
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Hey! I've tried the steps and I cannot undelegate. I keep getting an error message.
Hi, this tutorial might be needing an update.
Please go to: https://steemworld.org/@yourusername >> delegations >> outgoing >> and click on cross next to delegation you want to remove.
Let me know if you need any further help.
Thank you! Wow. That was so much easier than the other tutorials. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
Hey @elvielins see the tutorial above. It worked!