There are a lot of different ways to earn and learn. I had a desire to help out with a new token issuance, (I don't think I have ever been on ground floor of a change of token thinking), and that desire has taught me quite a bit. I have learned the importance of liquidity for tokens on Hive-Engine, they may have a valuable number but that is on paper not in ability to trade the token(sell).
It has been a long time since I put any HIVE into the Hive-Engine platform, but I have recently sold and taken out 200 Hive for the project that I totally do not understand. It is a trust token. I trust the person from past and current social history with them so was willing to try and help even if it means a loss.
What I am learning is that, yep, I am going to hit that 10,000 HP year end goal, no doubt about it.