Or, people who earned little bits of Hive and consistently staked it in to earn a bit more on curation, learned about the ecosystem.
drop by drop and suddenly you have a storm.
My non Splinterlands posts rarely get to 1 dollar payouts. But that is fine. Those ,,peanuts'' add up together. A few days ago under your post I saw a similar story about the man who kept adding coins until he had gold coins. Those same peanuts have potential to become gold coins in the future.