# Allow anyone to pay dividends?

**URL:** <https://forums.counterparty.io/t/allow-anyone-to-pay-dividends/3846>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [October 1, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/allow-anyone-to-pay-dividends/3846 "2017-10-01T17:52:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![JPJA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/jpja/32/1324_2.png) [@JPJA](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/JPJA)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/allow-anyone-to-pay-dividends/3846/2 "2017-10-03T05:12:43Z")

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User demand:  
The current dividend implementation is used about once every two days. With flexible dividends, I guess we’ll see quite a bit more usage. Nevertheless, if someone writes up a CIP and development gets funding, then - yea - let’s do it!  
(if only removing the owner-only requirement, then no funding needed)

Dividend parameters:  
Dividend is one very specific case of a mass-send. Why not add some flexibility to it:

- Receive proportional to holdings (how it works today) OR everyone receives same absolute quantity (e.g. [one PEPE card to each holder of PEPECASH](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/change-in-dividend-payments/3852))
- Pay dividend only to balances above X (currently not possible to specify, ie zero) OR pay dividend to top N balances only

Fees:  
The fee now is 0.0002 XCP per recipient ($0.002). Is this reasonable? Remember that it only takes one bitcoin transaction to potentially send to 1000s of recipients. Distributing your token to 1000 recipients would cost only $2, and a hundred thousand would be $200.

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