transparencybot also does random upvotes each day for authors and posts that have not used bidbots.

so does @booster, but your bot does not even see the difference between a paid upvote or a free upvote, there is no real calculation in your software, should we have 500 transparency bots for broke people to run? STEEM is already transparent, so stop this damn over exposure of information people already have better access to then what you deliver, which is a product forced upon us and not asked for.

Of Course people will buy upvotes, that is how you MINE this blockchain and get some coins.
Do you not understand the attention economy and blockchain yet? Then FORK STEEM and make your own chain with your own rules and see if you get any tracktion.

As a SP/"MINING-RIG-POWER" Owner of course I will either rent it out or use it myself. I too can decide to not give a fuck and just do like @haejin but instead I allow the public to use my SP to trend their posts for a free market valued fee (it is an open auction 10 times per day)