Actually, you should take the 50/50 rewards because the price of SBD is about $7 instead of $1, which you can trade in the Steemit internal market - which you can navigate to from the wallet - for more Steem than by Powering Up.
Let me explain: let's assume you have a post with a pending payout of $2 according to Steemit. With today's market price, if powered up, you'd get about 1/3 of Steem exluding the curation rewards for upvoters.
Now, with 50/50 rewards, and assuming your post would earn $2, you'd get 1 USD worth of Steem, which is about 1/6th at the moment, AND 1 SBD which is worth about $7 which you can trade in the market for about 1.1 Steem with the current prices. So, a total of about 1.3 Steem, against the 0.33 Steem from Power Upping. About 4x more.
This is because the 'potential payout' doesn't actually show the trues USD value with a SBD at $7, instead it assumes SBD being at $1 which it was initially used to be at. In the future there might be something done for the SBD pegged back to $1 but I don't expect that to happen soon. The price might also come back down by itself from the new SBD created from post payouts, but I don't know. But as long as SBD is above $1 it's more profitable to take 50/50 payouts.
There are some plug-ins that show the actual value of pending payouts in USD with the SBD prize taken into account.
Tldr; take 50/50 rewards, trade SBD into Steem and power it up, which grants you more than '100% Power UP' -rewards from a post.
So yeah, new users might not be aware of this SBD case because its price surge happened already a while ago and hasn't been discussed as much lately.
Thanks for this info. Still learning as we grow :)
No problem :)
This is quite insightful. You're definitely correct, I wasn't aware of the SBD case or the price surge, you should definitely consider doing a write-up on it because I was completely unaware. One would assume that 100% would yield more, but based on your info that is far from the case, at least at present.
Hmm.. a reminder post might be appropriate because there many new users since the SBD price increase.