My Hive Goals for 24 February 2025

in Paper in my Pocket8 days ago

Hello all! Another week and it’s time again to do another #myhivegoals post, a series idea started by started by @jongolson. This also doubles as my weekly progress report for #saturdaysavers, which is a fun little group that tries to motivate everyone to save and reach their goals. I’m going to look at the progress I’ve made on my Hive goals, as well as give a few tokens I’m looking at right now. If you are here for the comment SBI giveaway, well, we’ll get to that too.

Let’s start with my Hive goals.

Hive & HBD

My current goal is 60k Hive.

Last week I increased my HP by 2211.26, bringing me to 45301.55 total Hive Power. That’s 75.5% of my goal!

Now, don’t be mistaken: I didn’t actually earn that much. 2000 of it was from my wallet, bot from post earnings.

I have been sitting on 4000 HIVE, converted from my HBD when the price of HIVE dropped last year, just waiting for a good time to trade it. I used this 4000 cache to successfully swing trade on a few of those upbit pumps last year. But upbit has been penalized and the pumps have seemingly stopped, so I decided it might be time to just power up some of it. So I powered up half. Maybe I’ll do the other half next week. I figure if the big pumps start again, well, I can always do a powerdown. In the meantime, I might as well enjoy the increased curation that 2000 can give me when powered up—and you guys get to benefit from my slightly higher upvote.

Anyway, math time. 60k - 45301.55 gives us 14698.45. Divided out by the days till the first of next year, we get 47.3 Hive needed per day to reach 60k by that point.

Woohoo, I improved my position. Last week it was 52.8. Now 47.3 is still well above what I get organically from posts alone, but hey, let me enjoy the small victory for now! When it goes back up next week, I’ll be disappointed, but for now—celebration!

Second Layer Tokens

Still nothing new on my radar here. I think defi still has some room to grow, so I am thinking about buying more RUG. RUG is great because it then feeds into the entire SSUK ecosystem, paying in DBOND each week, which then pays DAB, which then pays either HIVE or more DBOND, depending on if you stake it or not. It’s a bit complex, but it works (at least for now).

But I don’t know. Just powering up Hive for now and thinking.

Silver

The silver chart for last week:

We got up to a high of nearly $34! Awesome. It drew back a little, but I think we still finished the week strongly. Let’s hope it continues this week.

For this week’s coin, check this out:

I love Godzilla. I’m sure many of you know that his name in Japanese is gojira (ゴジラ), but did you know where this name came from? The story goes that one of the workers at Toho was a big guy who everyone called first gujira and then later gojira. This was a combination of gorira (“gorilla”) and kujira (“whale”), because he was a big hairy guy who looked like a gorilla and he loved eating whale meat. This kind of playful mocking has always been common in Japan with boys. The guy who conquered Japan in the late 1500s, Hideyoshi, was nicknamed Monkey Face because he looked like a monkey. Anyway, so this worker’s nickname became first the nickname for the star of the newest monster movie and then his official name.

I added this coin to that order I talked about making last week. If you want to do the same, get it here.

Giveaway

That stuff out of the way, let’s do our SBI drawing! If you are new here, I give away 5 shares of SBI every week to commenters on this post. If you also reblog and comment you get a second entry and double the award (if you win).

So how about this week? Let’s see… last post we had comments from @akiraymd @bozz @dewabrata @doombot75 @flummi97 @imfarhad @irisworld @kaibagt [x2] @kerrislravenhill @opidia [x2] @pardinus @rukyig @silversaver888 @thebighigg [x2] @vaynard86 [x2].

And the winners are…

@dewabrata @imfarhad @kerrislravenhill @irisworld @flummi97!

Congratulations, everyone!

And forward we go! It was a strong week. Let’s see how this coming one goes!

Hi there! David is an American teacher and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku. He blogs here and at laspina.org. Write him on Mastodon.

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You're on your way, even though it takes adding in some outside Hive! Now it seems a little more manageable to achieve on a daily basis! I keep thinking I should buy up some more RUG, I never bought much because it coincided with the start of DUO and all my extra cash went towards token creation and paying for coding!

Godzilla is a pretty sweet piece of silver, I see why you added it to the order!
!BBH
!DOOK

RUG relies on defi, and right now since everything is down, it's not giving as much as it was. Still—it is cheap right now, so that's something to consider.

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Those old Japanese monster movies do have a certain charm of their own.
Thanks for the HSBI @dbooster
!PIMP

Absolutely agreed!

You're welcome!

I like that you didn't wait for HPUD and suck up to some entity for a few more votes on a post about your power up. Though at 40k, I feel you should have twice what I see on that chart in curation rewards my dude. Are you being frugal with votes or just don't have the time or? Curious on your voting habits. When you have time, if you want, we can hash out how to maximize it if you want. !PIMP !PIZZA !WINE

Thanks! No, I'm voting several posts everyday, keeping my VP hovering around 80-90%. My stats show around 8% so I was figuring that was good. I think the difference from what you are thinking might be that I am delegating out around 16k, so my effective HP is only around 29k. I think I need to go through that list and trim the fat.

wow.. congrats on adding so much HIVE! 💪😎👊

that coinn look badass!!

GOZILLA!

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How cool is this drawing of the Godzilla coin! I found this story interesting, I didn't know it yet, it's really good

!PIZZA
!BBH

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow! While it is not earned, boosting it up is great.

Nice work.

Reblogged

Thanks!

please count me in
@akiraymd
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Congrats on working toward your goals. Mine are quite modest. I don't really have any here, except to keep growing and to keep being a positive influence. I'm quite a bit older than you (than most people on Hive) so that makes sense.

However, I would like to say that I checked out laspina.org. What a joy! I spent a semester studying Japanese classical literature in grad school. It was the kind of course that stays with you. It was a long time ago...1978 or '79, I think. My youngest was 6 months old when I started and I went to keep my sanity :) Anyway, I loved Japanese literature. I remember Kagero Nikki, and Ugetsu Monogatari off the top of my head. I will be visiting your blog again and enjoying your poetry. Just thought I'd touch base on that.

Thanks for checking out my webpage and glad to hear you enjoyed it. I don't give it nearly as much love as I should, but I do try to post there at least a few times per week with original haiku or translations. And that's wonderful that you enjoy Japanese literature. I am familiar with both of those, but I've read neither. As I'm sure you can imagine, very often some of these old haiku (especially pre-Shiki) love to refer to literature, so I end up being exposed to a lot of it myself as I follow the research. It's always a very fascinating journey and I have to fight with myself not to include all the details when I do my posts.

Cool piece of silver, reminds me that I do need to get to Tokyo soon, been on my list for a long time. Visited Japan 20 years ago and really enjoyed it.

!BBH

It's been a while then. You need to get back here!

Yes definitely, stayed in Kobe last time I was there, really want to do Tokyo and a bullet train ride like every tourist 😃

!BBH

Be careful with the bullet train—once you ride on it, you'll never want to use any other mass transit or drive either. The experience is just that good!

Yahooo! Thank you!
I haven't heard about SUK token before but it is a good reason to check it out! Thank you for the info!

!BBH

No, SSUK not a token but is the person behind the tokens I mentioned (RUG, DAB, and DBOND).

Oops sorry! I misunderstood it... And tbh I knew about tokens but didn't know about their founder. Shame on me...

!BBH

wow 2k HP... your numbers are always awesome. I will have to wait for another month to get my life settled first then start investing back into HIVE

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By then, Hive may have fallen back to a quarter, so it's a good plan!

Count me in please. @flummi97

Thanks for the HSBI token.
Ahh, buying and selling during price pumps is a nice way to build Hive.

!PIZZA
!BBH
!CTP
!ALIVE

Also harder to do without those easily predictable pumps and dumps, hence I powered up instead of doing it anymore.

congrats to all winners and to my sweets @irisworld 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

@opidia, my dear! How are you doing? I miss you so much! I tried to message you on Discord, but it seems you deleted it. How are you doing?
!BBH

let me send you friend request, i got in but i dont really use discord.
🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺

Which messenger do you prefer? Or we can try ecency chat as well :)

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is'it ecency discord ?
send me link 🌹

Nope . If you use ecency website or app to access your hive account, so there is a chat inside the website.

Just go to the ecency.com and login to your account :)

You get more replies writing nothing, than I do writing what I write... It doesn't really shock me...

writing nothing

I don't think attacking people is really going to help your cause out very much. I put a fair amount of effort into tracking and compiling the stats I give in these posts, many people are motivated by them, and I give to the community both with generous upvotes on comments and units of HSBI, which no doubt helps increase interaction.

My Hive Goals for 24 February 2025
dbooster (77)in Paper in my Pocket • 15 hours ago
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It appears that everyone else can see what you wrote, but for some reason your post is blank except for the Title and your Replies... Others seem to see something... For some reason I'm not seeing anything written... No, this was not an attack...

Hmm, that's strange. What Hive frontend are you using?

I'm on the original Hive...

So hive.blog then? Ahhh... you're right! It's blank. What the heck...? I suspect most people use peakd, which is why they can see it. But I'm going to have to fix this. I wonder what the problem is. Hmm... Anyway, thank you for making me aware of the problem!

So hive.blog then? Ahhh... you're right! It's blank. What the heck...? I suspect most people use peakd, which is why they can see it. But I'm going to have to fix this. I wonder what the problem is. Hmm... Anyway, thank you for making me aware of the problem!

Edit: I figured it out. hive.blog is broken by Youtube's iframe html tag. I'll report that in their discord. But also, I will have to figure out a workaround. I like including the drawing video, but maybe I'll have to start just giving a link to it.

I'm glad I made you aware of the problem... It all seemed very odd to me...

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