When I look back at past months, I can't ignore the fact that there was a serious trend when it came to my activity on hive and this trend was not positive. It was rather the contrary. Every month, I seemed to be doing a little bit less than the moth before and it's something that I wanted to turn around. With this background, I'm quite happy about my activity in February 2025...
11 posts and a lot of researching
Let's not forget that February is the shortest month of the year, so I'm quite happy to have written a total of 11 posts on Hive. This is quite above my average of 6 to 9 posts per month in 2024. I managed to create quite a lot of content mainly because I was doing active research outside of the hive ecosystem. In February, I researched Solana, Sui, Sonic, Base and Hyperliquid chains. I've discovered a lot of things and made some nice errors that were worth documenting in the form of posts.
Why researching outside of hive?
Just to make things clear, Hive is my home on the internet and it's my place to go for most of things. However, I have recently had the feeling that I was a bit caught in the hive bubble and didn't really know what was happening outside of it. So I let my curiosity free reign and I started to learn and experiment. I set a budget for it and did some risky stuff but also some other things that I plan to keep going. It was enriching and I believe that it will help me for my work on Hive as well.
My 2025 Goals
At the beginning of each month, I try to get an idea of how I'm evolving on Hive. I've set some goals that I want to achieve until the end of 2025 and I try to keep track of it to see whether I'm doing enough to reach them.
At the end of 2024, I wrote a post in which I listed my goals for 2025. By the end of 2025, I want to reach 80'000 Hive Power and 16'000 HBD. So far 62 days have past since I've set my goals, or 16.94% of the year. This means that I should have collected 16.94% of the tokens to reach my goals. I look at it like my benchmark. If I'm above the benchmark, I'm doing well. If I'm below, I'm not on track to reach my goals.
| Token | Start level | Today | Goal | Increase % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 72'024 | 73'611 | 80'000 | 19.89% |
| HBD | 15'005 | 15'077 | 16'000 | 7.2% |
When I look at the numbers above, I think that I'm doing quite well in terms of Hive Power. I'm about 3% above benchmark which is good and I managed to do that without a power up. It's organic growth from post and curation rewards.
For HBD, it's another story altogether. In January, I was already 7.3% behind benchmark and now the gap has grown to 9.7%. I have to say here that I used my HBD interests for my experimentation on the other blockchains and that is probably the reason why I'm so far behind. I earn about 180 HBD interest per month. So if I manage to not use these interests for a couple of months, I will probably make a big jump... Let's see how things evolve...
With @ph1102, I'm running the @liotes project.
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