Hey BANTER!
I recently shared this post in METABBS, and thought it'd be useful here as well.
One of the most common things I see confusion about with users is the two balances shown in your internal wallet:
The top balance, your Community Balance, shows the Community Currency funds you have to use within that specific board, in this the pictured example we'll use METABBS.
The bottom balance, your Cashable Balance, shows the amount of Community Currency you can withdraw and convert to BBS Tokens.
Community Balance
Community Balance is only used internally, within it's specific board, for purchasing posts. You can earn Community Balance from selling your owned posts and from receiving Bonus Rewards. Bonus rewards are given to promote engagement within a BBS and to allow interaction with the board without first depositing money. Bonus rewards are not representative of real monetary value, therefore neither is the community balance, but it allows a system to be created where users can speculate on the actual value of a post, which is the framework behind the BBS content curation system. By purchasing a post, and thereby helping curate content, a user provides value to the platform, so the user is rewarded by earning a share of the actual ad revenue generated by the purchased post (50%). 100% of the ad revenue earned from owning or publishing posts is added to your Cashable Balance.
Cashable Balance
Cashable Balance represents your share of the actual monetary value of the content you've owned (for the duration you owned it) or published through its ad revenue (possibly subsidized through the Engagement Mining program). This is the balance that can be converted to BBS tokens in order to obtain monetary value from the BBS Network, or it can also be used to run ad campaigns on the board.
So by nature Cashable Balance is what users want to aim to increase the most, since that represents the value they've generated from ad campaigns run on the platform.
You can view a recent log of your revenue activity from ad campaigns on owner or published posts in the 'Revenue' tab of your profile:
The button in the top right will bring you to the full list of transaction activity from your ad payouts.
Hopefully this makes it a little easier to understand!
The key points to remember:Cashable Balance is the amount of your Community Currency you can cash out to BBS tokens and represents the actual monetary value you've generated for the specific BBS.
Community Balance is not representative of direct monetary value, and is used as a tool for price discovery in the BBS content curation system. You can use community balance to earn cashable balance by purchasing and owning posts.
As always, questions and comments welcome!