Congrats! No matter what people say, rep 70 is a BIG deal. I know many say rep is a bit redundant, but if you worked hard in Hive, it's a testimonial of all those years of work.
The earlier decades are easy to achieve and often we don't take much notice of it. But its a big and long step from 60 to 70, many develop themselves and grow their network during this period. Its a well deserved celebration!!
Hey, @livinguktaiwan.
Well, thank you. I appreciate the well-wishes and the sentiment.
I'll have to go back and dig up when I made what since I did keep track of all of those things. There have been different dynamics going on at different times during my time on STEEM/HIVE, and so the meter moved a little faster or a little slower in places depending on those dynamics.
Muse, at its shortlived height, was very good for my rep (and stake building), and then, incredibly, the change away from the linear curve and the 50/50 split helped for a quite a few months after that.
So, getting through the 60s seemed a little easier, although I know each new number and series of numbers becomes increasingly harder to achieve.
As you say, though, if nothing else, the rep generally can be considered a measure of one's longevity and stick-to-it-ness. Not always. I don't think it happens so much anymore, though, since a lot of what I mentioned that plagued STEEM doesn't seem to affect HIVE as much.
I guess we'll see what happens if they end up changing the vote window and other various and sundry payout deals.
I do have to say, though, going from a minnow to a dolphin was a much bigger party. :)