In less than a month I will have been on this blockchain for seven whole years. I joined up a few months after it started when @the-bitcoin-dood suggested I give it a look. We had been on the Tsu platform that just got shut down. That one paid users from advertising income, but there was no blockchain involved. I made a few hundred dollars there over a couple of years. I donated some to charities and spent a little on things for myself, but it was not sustainable. When I saw this new site I could see how it had the potential to be much better. It did not rely on a single corporation and the value would be up to the crypto markets.
I am loathe to mention the 'S site' as it leaves a bad taste. When it was sold we could see things were not looking great, but the community was able to fork the blockchain to create Hive. My old account got censored for criticising the new management. I was still able to extract my funds, which I sold for $HIVE. That gave my account a big boost as every Hive account based on an existing one got equivalent tokens.
I do not hold significant amounts of other crypto. I have various Hive Engine tokens, but that is just a few hundred dollars. I have bought some $HIVE, but the bulk of it comes from posting and curation rewards by being active almost every day.
When I first joined up I had plenty of posts that made nothing. Meanwhile some others made thousands from a post as the rewards algorithm was different. I think at one point I needed 1000SP to give a vote of 1c.
Over the years I have seen the value of my account change massively. It has sometimes gone up or down by thousands of dollars overnight. As I have to wait to power down I just have to ride it out. The peak value was nearly $200k in late 2021, but it is worth a lot less now. If this platform can achieve its potential then I think it could go much higher.
I keep a log of various statistics for my account in a spreadsheet, but we have access to various tools online.
HiveStats shows what I have made recently.
On HiveBuzz you can see your rank for various factors. There are now 168 accounts with at least 100k HP. I hope to see that increase. Some familiar names are just ahead of me. We would have a lot more, but many people moved funds into HBD savings to get the nice income from that. I prefer to have HP that allows me to distribute rewards.
I rank higher for other things:
- 87th for comments
- 39th for replies
- 64th for upvoted
- 129th for reputation. I hit 78 last week
I do love statistics, so these are great facilities.
So what is my next milestone? It will take a long time to get to another significant number. It could take years just to double my HP, let alone reach Whale level (~560k). Getting my reputation to increment would take at least a year. I would like to get my effective HP to 100k as I delegate to various other accounts.
Of course I love that I can earn from Hive, but I have no immediate plans to power down. I would like the $HIVE price to be much higher before I consider that, so I should have a while to keep powering up. I get that others need the money now and that is fine. Hive is making life better for many people and that is really important.
Hive is all about potential. Anyone can make it here if they put in the work and do not try to game the system. We do have cliques, but I do not buy most of the stories about big accounts trying to keep the small ones down. There may be exceptions as online anonymity can be exploited for bullying. We get more upvotes than downvotes, so I think it balances out on the positive side.
Hive five!
It's a good milestone and one that takes effort and consistency. Well done, and well deserved.
Cheers!
Congrats, feels great to see Hivers who've been so consistent over the years stick to their activity and reach these milestones. Thanks for everything you've done for minnows and UK based users and everything else. Let's see where we're at after 10 years!
Cheers! I have gone all-in with Hive, but then I think it is worthy. We are part of a revolution, but still under the radar for now. I'm getting on, so I hope success does not take too long :)
Ehh, the way you run makes you at least 20 years younger! :D
LOL! Well I do beat some younger folk. I'm racing against age these days.
an example for everyone, congrats mate
Cheers mate. I really want Hive to succeed, so do what I can to help. We cannot afford to just look for personal gain if we want that.
!BEER
Congrats dude! Its a great feeling hitting the 100K milestone. And seven years too soon. I think my seven year anniversary is Wednesday or something.
Heres to another seven and another 100K!
I would hope things are very different by 2030, but we have a struggle to get recognition.
We do. Heres hoping!
Excellent and well deserved and a great number to achieve. I hope to join you in the 100 club over the coming months.
Will be great to have you join us. We can help spread the rewards.
!BEER
Congrats Steve and yes, we have come a long way since Tsu. My 100hp is still a mile away, but it doesn't bother me, as I enjoy what I do. And of course, I know that you also enjoy it.
Blessings and !BEER
You have been consistent in your support of Hive, so you deserve to do well.
Thank you and the same with you my friend.
!BEER
It is very true, hive has helped many people not only financially, but also to boost our careers, for example, here I share all my events and videos that I do in external environments, hive has helped me a lot when I bought my first electric violin With this platform and my audio card to continue growing with my violin and many more people meet me and enjoy my art, it is what drives me the most to continue here, I also hope to have much more HP to give rewards right now I give little but I hope in the future to be able to give bigger rewards. Greetings
That is exactly what I love to see here. I bought a nice guitar with what I made. Hive can change lives, especially where incomes are low. I want to see lots more musicians on here.
!HUG
That's how life has changed, and hopefully many more people who have good wishes can meet many musicians here who are very good and who still don't know them
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Congrats! That's a huge milestone, and from where I'm sat its very much deserved.
I forgot Hivebuzz had the table ranking thing, guess I'll go see how highly (or lowly) I feature on it!
You are still a pioneer as Hive is tiny. When millions join up it will be harder to earn.
!BEER
Congrats Steve, Yes I found Hive again ;) . no serious...lot of things were going on here.
Hope to be more constructive on Hive again, we'll see !! have a great day.
Hey! We missed you. Hope things are good with you. Lots happening on Hive for you to catch up with.
!BEER
Thanks Steve, Will catch up for sure !!... Things are well (again) , so in for a new boost into hive :) Great reading you are still going strong on the blockchain, respect!!!
Wow!! That's awesome!!
That is quite a goal to obtain. Congratulations.
I am still working on reaching dolphin... mostly so i can make account-tokens.
And if i do not fall out from depression, again, i might make it.
I am glad you stuck with it and kept publishing, even through the hard S times.
I keep publishing on S, wonder if i should sell that and move it here (like you did)... and if so, when during this bull cycle?
Anything I put on S with my original account would not be seen and I have no inclination to use that platform anyway. It got corrupted and, from what I've seen, the majority of rewards go to favoured accounts. I struggle to see why their token doesn't crash, but a few people may prop it up.
Very cool! Seven years.. wow..
I do have a fair chunk in savings right now but I plan to move it over to HP as soon as I feel it's enough to do that and keeping a base behind. I totally agree with you that HP should be used to acknowledge other people's work!
After all that's what it's all about!
Enjoy your achievement! Excellent! 👍😃
I'm not against people getting the benefits of savings. I have some myself that I may use to fund things like games.
Hive had been a fun journey for me. I'm happy you are part of that now.
!HUG
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
I should have joined a looong time ago.. haha
Thank you for being so persistent!
Better late than never, as we say
Yep, we say that too.. ha 😁
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Congratulations Steve! I will hit my goal of 100k in August 🙂 I see that I'm right behind you 😉
That will be worth celebrating. I love having these charts to see how we're doing.
!HUG
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Well done. Congratulations on the 100k! Making it there is on my radar, but at least several years away.
Congrats!
@tipu curate
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Congratulations! That is a great milestone and you deserve it with all the effort you put into the blockchain! Here is to 100K more!
!PIZZA
Dang you beat me by a little congrats!
It looks like you will be there soon. I hope to see a few more make it this year.
!BEER
Take a bowDamn @steevc. Many many congratulations good ser!!! This is crazy stuff.
It's a big milestone and I cannot even imagine where you will be in 10 years from now.
Wow, that's huge; congratulations! Just the perfect way to show that consistency is key. I'll reach a tenth of that value this month, one of my year objectives. Never crossed my mind I would reach it, I also remember my zero reward posts when I started. So who knows... maybe your whale status can come sooner than expected! ;) Cheers! !BEER
At this rate it would be many years to get to whale. I'm happy enough, especially as $HIVE is on the way up right now.
Growth tends to accelerate so... you never know! ;)
My curation should increase anyway. I'll keep adding what I can.
Wow that's a huge achievement Steve. Congratulations.
Cheers. It's been a long journey.
!HUG
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Fantastic work Steev! I'm very pleased. That's amazing work for "just" seven years. I had assumed most people had invested thousands of their real-world £ to get to these kinds of levels. This shows what is possible when you invest yourself into the platform rather than just money.
I've put on a lot of time, but the hourly rate may not be great. I still enjoy it.
!BEER
Thank you Steve! :)
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You have to start somewhere. Hive is quite different to 7 years ago and it can be harder to get noticed. You need to find your audience of those who share your interests. Do what's fun for you and see how it goes.
!BEER
Congrats!! You made it at last.
I remember when my wallet was at 200k at one time and that's when my stake was a lot lower, so yes, Hive does have the potential. Anyone who is here for short term rewards only will kick themselves in future.
I want to see far more people benefit from Hive. That's why I support the little guys.
Am I a little guy? ;o)
I can't support everyone. My voting is mostly manual and my time is limited.
Oh yeah don't worry bro. I've already seen how limited is your time for at least 11 years. 7 over here in Hive and at least 4 more on TSU. LoL
Peace and love 💗
Thank you bro! See you soon over there hahaha. };)
Congratulations! That is one hell of an achievement! One of these days I'll have to catch up to you!
Well done, and keep going. You have way more motivation than me 😀
We each have different things that drive us. Money is not my primary one. I find this fun.
Onya Steve!
I'm trying to use LEO and the SWAP.HIVE:SIM LP to build my HIVE stack faster.
Slowly chipping away at my own 100K target :)
I've used the other tokens to help get there. We have lots of options to play with. Keep building...
!BEER
Congrats! That is awesome!
It's a achievement. What I like most is you charity. Congratulations
ahh yes the TSU days , Congratulations on the 100k
Tsu was fun whilst it lasted, but didn't make it. A few Hivers I know were on it.
yeah the old #tsufamily tag , most people i know from TSU are stillactive here , i guess we where the early adapters
Wow! Congratulations for reaching this milestone👏👏
A lot of people have come around and gave up on the way but you are still Hiving and piling up. Awesome!👌
Hopefully, I will get there someday too.
Congrats on the milestone Steve and the 7 years! I am also an HP person and prefer to use my voting power rather than convert to HBD, at least for the moment anyhow.
Nice one Steve!
Cheers. It's been a while coming, but I can relax a little now it's done. Onto the next challenge...
This is so inspiring. You've really come a long way, only passion and consistency can make this happen. What an achievement, congratulations!!
great post i think you will be an idol so i can take action to make my hive equal to yours
Greetings dear friends, many congratulations for that new goal and achieve to gather that great amount of hp in your account, it is certainly a great number and you can do many things and get very good numbers in healing, plus this is a sign of perseverance, dedication and be there every day improving. I recently reached 5000 HP and I am very happy, let's keep building and working @steeve
Well done, @steeve! Such a nice milestone.
Enjoy it.
Vaya vaya. Cómo me falta crecer en esta plataforma leyendo esta valiosa publicación.
Wow! This greatly inspires me as a newbie in this site.
Thank you for this, this is really helpful for us who are still novice in this community.
And by the way, congratulations.🎊🎉
Congrats
Nice one, i hope i get there next year.
Congratulations that's a huge milestone!!!
Great job steve, congrats on the 100K, you deserve it!
Congratulations. 💯 K …. That’s a very big number. I hope to get there some day.
I'd love to see a thousand people up there. We need more orcas.
That would be awesome.., I’m over on Nostr, Twitter, Threads telling people about Hive…
it’s still complicated for new people to Join, but I think the Ecency.com sign up process is helping.
https://ecency.com/signup?referral=offgridlife
Congratulations for a hive 100k 🎉
Wow! A big congratulations to you. You really did it to this goal. Keep it up.
Very nice! Congrats!
The fact that you earned $20k from Posting and Curating is Huge on itself
Congratulation sir !
Wow! 100k is amazing!! Congrats!
Hi friend, I'm still starting at Hive, but I really believe in the community. Congratulations on your journey. I hope that one day I can also contribute to the development of Hive! 👏