A few months ago, I asked my followers to vote for their top three minnows, and the 20 highest-voted I added to my SteemVoter rules, at 100% vote (which then was around $4; now, it's almost $12). However, from that experience I learned that was way too high, and over time reduced and reduced again, until it landed at 10% which allowed my voting power to recover (as long as I wasn't making lots of manual votes).
So, I'm planning to run a similar-but-different campaign, once my voting power reaches 100% again, which should be a few days.
(Marmalade, I like marmalade.)
Had the second temporary filling for a root canal put in today. I recommend brushing...1/2 :) And even more so -- oil pulling!
Anyway, also separately, I have managed to turn ~1.2 BTC into ~3 BTC during this downturn. Not using margin, although I did recently come across NordFX which advertises 1000x margin. I think that's a little too risky! I might start margin trading, so I can "increase while it's going down" rather than just when it's going up. If that makes sense; I feel I should explain more -- I'm holding CTR from around 24,500 Satoshis, and today saw it impulse up; in about an hour it went from ~9,500 Sat to over 15,000 Sat!
Unfortunately it was after I got back from the dentist that I noticed this, and it had dropped to around 12,500 Sat. I started selling there, and it moved up some so got out between 12.5k and 12.8k.
I did this not because I wanted to "set in stone" a losing trade (which I did, and need to record...) -- but, because I though that it would move further down after this rapid move up, so I'd be able to buy more back at a lower price, and then have that move up and, combined, both trades would be positive -- and could be, even if it never made it back to the starting point.
Were I using a margin account, I could have not only sold, but also taken a short position in it, so that IF it drops as I expect it to based on the chart, then I'd be gaining coins rather than just "not losing as it moves down." I've been watching videos by @philakonecrypto recently which inspired me to start trading the BTC/USD pair.
Back to the voting: this time, I intend to add 50 accounts to my SteemVoter, so I'll probably set each at a 5% vote.
Previous winners are listed in the previous tabulation blog post. Feel free to vote for them, there are no restrictions based on prior selection. However, I will ensure that the accounts I upvote are minnows, so if my assistance helped push them past that threshold, they're no longer eligible -- and, congratulations! :)
What defines a minnow? For the purposes of this contest, it's simple: the account must have under 5000 SP, and under 500 followers (from here).
Enjoy!
Oh, I was going to say "where'd the marmalade come from, for an SBD!" -- but then I selected it and searched, and Atom Heart Mother came up. So, enjoy this old Pink Floyd album I was listening to when I wrote that! :) (Now listening to Meddle, their next chronologically.) Also note that the cow's side in the image contains an Azimuthal Equidistant world map, or more colloquially, a "flat Earth map"! It's also on the face of one of the clocks in Doc's kitchen, at the beginning of Back to the Future. Not to be too disturbing in this post -- one's introduction to the true shape of things must be done carefully, as many people are in the category described by that old war movie, which had the quote "You can't handle the truth!" My guess? You can. Just beware of the symptoms of cognitive dissonance.
You doing a great work @libertyteeth... It feels really good when we see people helping minnows.. I am also a minnow.. I would love if I get some support from you... Thanks a lot...
Thanks! Enjoy!
Awesome man, awesome initiative. Thank you for all your support in the past and future. You are a great thinker and a blessing to many.
Hope I am still qualified for this position, no question, I have enjoyed your upvote in the past and I greatly have you to thank for upvotes.
Thank you. I don't want to be greedy though and I want others to enjoy too.
God bless you.
@stevenmosoes
You're welcome, glad it has helped!
Looks like you wouldn't qualify, based on the metrics I've worked out in comments here -- the initial metric was "< 500 followers, and < 5,000 SP", but someone said they have 600 followers but very little SP, so I said okay, it could be a combination -- each follower is worth 10 SP, then just add that to the SP value, and if it's less than 10,000 then they qualify.
Since you have more than 1,000 followers, the followers alone would account for more than 10,000, so you wouldn't qualify. Which is great, in a sense! :) Like when a company is "too busy" to handle incoming requests -- meaning it has to hire more people -- that's a much better problem to have than bored employees. :)
You could help by resteeming my upcoming contest announcement, now that you have so many followers. :)
Blessings your way as well!
Sure, I will resteem it. With the analysis I give up and give room for others. You have a great heart to help people and may you continue to increase in your endeavors. Amen.
Thanks, you as well! I've just posted the contest: https://steemit.com/life/@libertyteeth/libertyteeth-community-minnow-support-vote-for-up-to-five-of-your-favorite-minnows-50-will-get-a-5-slot-in-my-steemvoter
It's done. Resteemed. Thank you for your selfless service. God bless you.
I hope your teeth are feeling better? been there, not much fun.
I have been teaching about Oil pulling for years from my Health store.
Keep up the great work personally and informing others.
I have been buying the shit out of LTC over the last couple of weeks.
Once I have a couple of thousand I will sleep much better.
"Another Brick in the Wall"
Haha! When I read the beginning of the comment (e.g., on my "Replies" page) I had forgotten that I mentioned dentistry in the post, and wondered if you were riffing on my name, LOL!
That's funny you mentioned LTC -- rather than waiting for my rungs to hit in the BTC/USD pair I had been quite profitably trading these past few days, last night I decided to put it into LTC instead.
I really like the chart! It's held up strong the past three days while BTC dove. And I hear ("fundamental analysis") rumors that Facebook might use LTC as their currency.
It was really humorous to read that some group is advocating that Google block cryptocurrency ads as well -- they completely missed the real point, that being that Facebook has decided on the cryptocurrency to use, and they don't want any "competition" as it might confuse the advertisers. I see that as quite bullish for whichever coin Facebook has chosen.
Good luck to your trades!
I hope it's not Fakebook that adopts LTC as their currency.
Hope you have a strong stomach ? ? ? ...
My guess the bottom is still not in on BTC, ETH and LTC.
This will cause all ALTS to fall
If your up $? keep some powder to buy new lows over the next 10 days.
Good luck yourself!
Heh, perhaps the current Binance outage is a blessing in disguise, in terms of my dry powder. :)
Hope you make some great Crypto buys when the next drop happens.
BTC grows on trees for you... ha ha! I don't know... the cow map is not flat... its more like an elliptical cylinder or cylindrical ellipse!
:)
I find it really amusing that so many governmental organizations use the Azimuthal Equidistant projection in their logos. They might say "you can't handle the truth" but then they go and put it on display. :)
Ha ha...
Yes, and -- notice they put "bounty, or harvest" at the edges, where Antarctica is!
Why would almost every nation in the world sign on to the Antarctica Treaty -- preventing people from exploring there? Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd probably could answer that.
Our books got here yesterday, I am going to start on the Elliot Wave one today. Wish me luck! I took a good, hard bonk on the head last week, maybe that is what I needed to understand the shit you try to explain to me? lol!
Well, I suppose turnabout is fair play! :) You taught me so much in the esoteric field, back on DP/PL, I feel honored to be able to!
Sometimes I get a "block" -- I haven't picked the book up in weeks; just did so, so I could say what page I'm on: still only 63, which is the beginning of chapter 2.
I did have stock options back in the 90s, so I had a decent involvement in the stock market; but I never studied Elliott Waves and am blown away at how everything fits into these impulse/retracement waves! I mean seriously, almost every chart I look at I can quickly find an impulse -- waves 1, 3, and 5 go up, where waves 2 and 4 go down (or vice versa, in a downtrend); when wave 4 retracts, it never goes into wave 1's territory; and wave 3 can't be the shortest (of 1, 3, and 5). Simple!
It's almost like my brain doesn't want any more input -- "this is enough". And certainly, it's not enough; I've been watching @philakonecrypto's lessons, the 6-hour one I mentioned in a previous post which motivated me to trade BTC/USD and have more than doubled that account in the past week or so.
It's snowing here now, supposed to get up to a foot. Thus it's the second time we've had to cancel an appointment for my wife's knees, with a doctor who is using them [edit: stem cells] to help people with joint pain. Sounds miraculous and would be awesome if it worked! She needs both knees replaced, and this year was going to be the year to do it, so it's really cool to have found this beforehand.
Found an article on using stem cells to help heal teeth, but the pain was too great so this nerve had to get pulled. I feel bad about it, especially not having done much oil pulling lately, and knowing that I could have avoided this -- both the pain, and the financial hardship, it's gonna be around four grand.
Hope your head feels better! One way we can know that energy healing works -- if you see someone holding their hand to their head, you "know" they have a headache. That innate knowledge is because the healing energy flows out from our fingertips. I think it's really cool to be able to understand the world through tiny glimpses.
I have a feeling that's what Elliott Waves are doing, which is why I'm so drawn to them.
Thank you for this initiative @libertyteeth! It can definitely change the lives of a lot of people. I also saw @philakonecrypto on Twitter and I'm so impressed with his trading skills. I hope more whales will be inspired with your campaign.
That is a nice service you provide, when you don't have to, to us minnows! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome, and thanks for the kind words!
Awesome initiative and this was brought to my attention by one of our admins.
Too bad I am no longer eligible given i have more than 500 followed already and is heavily involved in community building under both Ohana @steemitfamilyph and @promo-mentors which aims to teach and guide a lot of redfish and planktons to create original and good quality content.
We at Ohana @steemitfamilyph started with 10 people last October and has grown to more than 200 people and still growing so we will try to pitch for them to be part of the 50. You might want to look under the main account as we have a daily curation of the members who receive 100% from the account. It's not much about 24 cents now due to small SP we voluntary gave to it but is a boost to some.
Promo-mentors is the same that we encourage growth and development and most importantly retention of red fishes.
We will await further instructions and hope that you may consider some of our members.
Hey, looks like you might be eligible, based on the rules I worked out in a comment in this post. Basically, to combine the metrics in a way that they can be interchanged, because some people might have exceeded one metric but not the other.
So, followers are worth 10 SP, and that sum is then added to the SP. If it's less than 10k, then the account qualifies for the contest. You do! :)
Yey that's good to hear!!! We'll get a lot of our members to enter and hopefully some if not all can be chosen :)
Thank you so much!
Thank you @libertyteeth your upvote has been of great help, but let the newbies enjoy too
You're welcome, glad it helped!
So how will you add this time or just like previously :)
Yeah I learned from last time! Most likely it'll be the top 50, and they'll each get a 5% upvote.
And, of course, like last time I'll adjust it if I'm drifting too low too quickly.
"I though that it would move further down after this rapid move up, so I'd be able to buy more back at a lower price" Even i thought of selling substratum and wabi when they got their little pump but i thought that would be paper loss , i didn't think that i could buy them again at lower prices .
definately helped liberty! 🙏
Thank you @libertyteeth for your support for new members, I hope to be among the 50 :D
I wish I could participate just don't know how and I also have more than 1k followers although my sp is still very low.
I'll be following you to learn more about your projects...
Thanks! One way you could participate is the idea of "pay it forward" (although I've not seen the movie, so far) -- in other words, you could resteem this post to your followers, and perhaps they could reward you with a portion of their reward.
Yes, I will resteem this post I actually have a fast growing talented group so I might share this one to our GC too, I just need to understand it well.
I really don't know the full benefits of resteeming aside from the idea that we are helping the author to get more exposure or visibility.
Thanks.
Resteeming doesn't directly benefit the resteemer; it helps expose their output to a wider audience, which means there's a higher chance that their post will be upvoted with rewards.
So, you won't get STEEM or SBD for doing so -- but, you might have some minnows who are following you and not me, who will then have the opportunity to participate.
One strategy (for the minnows) is to both resteem, and make an original post, something like "Please vote for me in @libertyteeth's contest!" I noticed @bearbear613 did so while I was searching for the previous contest:
https://steemit.com/contest/@bearbear613/hey-guys-vote-for-me-libertyteeth-contest
Thanks @libertyteeth for ur support to minnows. U're really doing a nice job. Looking forward to be part of it.
I read this back to back but I still don't get how the contest is but I wish to join big time
This is just an announcement to let my followers know of this upcoming contest. I'll probably start it on Friday or Saturday, once I'm back to 100% voting power.
To join, just wait for my post, then follow the instructions -- which will probably be something like, "Make a comment indicating up to three other Steemit accounts to vote for; self-voting will disqualify all your votes" -- although I'm thinking to raise it to five votes. I'll then add the top 50 who are voted, to my SteemVoter rules. Good luck!
OK. Have already follow up for more
i'm also a minnow sir...but i don't lose hope... i try my best here to keep my level best... i respect u sir for supporting minnows... you are great... 👍
Great work man! Awesome initiative..i lile it..its really hepful..tnx a lot..best of luck
Realy good post..your a great guy..tnx a lot..its really helpful..emjoy
Have a nice [email protected] good post.thanks for sharing this post
nice post😊😊😊
@libertyteeth has been of great help to this entire community, how i wish he can be delegated with alot of sp as he is really doing alot. He has been helping me also, thanks @libertyteeth
You're welcome! And thanks for the kind words.
I really hope that to be among. I have almost 600followers but my SP is low. Can I still qualify?
Hmm. I suppose we could work out "what is a follower worth in terms of SP", and then I could set a different, combined, limit.
E.g., if a follower was "worth" 10 SP, then 500 followers would be 5,000 SP. Add that to the 5,000 SP that's part of the above limit, and then an overall "10k SP limit; each follower adds another 10 SP" and you'd qualify.
Now I just need to remember this when I do the contest post! (I'm recovering from multiple concussions, and forgetfulness is one of the major symptoms.)
I really hope you remember when you do the contest post. Thanks for considering this.
I think I will, as I've repeated it several times in comments to others. :)
Thanks for this great opportunity....But still confuse on how to participate
Sorry for the confusion -- this is just letting people know I'm pausing my SteemVoter rules, and that they will be replaced when I run the next contest. I'll announce the contest Friday or Saturday, most likely, once my voting power gets back to 100%.
@libertyteeth you are a respectable steemians in terms of your selfless effort you are doing. I get to know about you through minnow posts because your name have been popping up on almost every minnow account, that was when i know you that you are a true whale helping other minnow grow. The last attack from berniesanders got me worried because i keep on wondering why attack will be on someone like you.
I don't have much steempower but the little i have i will use to support, since a group of tree will help create a forest.
Thanks, you made me tear up a little there. ;) His abusive behavior and foul mouth are driving people away. I am one of them; the two times he has attacked me, I've taken some time off. (At least the SteemVoter rules stayed in effect during those periods, so I was still helping others while absent.) And the most recent time, he even committed crimes attacking me -- he DDoSed my site, which took down the hosting company's server -- meaning it impacted other, completely unrelated, sites. I have records, the attacks lasted days.
Some may argue that he's helping; that the "drama" makes it like reality TV and compelling to see "who will win the fight?"
Personally, and to quote The Breakfast Club:
(I have a feeling that John Bender was the inspiration for Futurama's character, Bender.)
Anyway, I've muted it so the only way I'll see it or its behavior is if I'm attacked again.
Love your last sentence!!
Don't worry man.I always support and upvote you.
Thanks for share this post.
Thank you for the support @libertyteeth.
@libertyteeth is it that you are going to add to the running list you got coz alot of us there are still big time minnows judging by your criteria and again if you watch their post closely it is your upvote that always make the earning meaningful in the first 30 mins if not it will still read cent as my post always read cent if not for your upvote that beautifies it but i have got alot of dead followers
Yes, this time I will replace the running list. However -- every account which qualifies as a minnow is eligble to win, e.g. if you have less than 500 followers, and less than 5,000 SP (or combination -- I worked it out in a comment earlier today, which I'll include in the upcoming post; basically, each follower = 10 SP, so with the two combined you would qualify if under 10,000 SP and no followers; or, if under 1,000 followers and no SP -- but it'll more likely be a combination of the two, for instance, someone might have 600 followers, but less than 4,000 SP, and they'd qualify).
I always upvote and supported you man.resteem you post.
it is very nice crow ...
i like this type crow.
Hey @libertyteeth how are you?
I'm happy to see you are helping minnow and it's really a great initiative.
i appreciate you effort :)
I'm a minnow and need your support :)
Hopefully i'll get it.
Following you and restreeming your post :) Thanks.
"I however that it would move additionally down after this quick climb, so I'd have the capacity to purchase more back at a lower cost" Even I thought of offering substratum and wabi when they got their little pump yet I felt that would be paper misfortune , I didn't imagine that I could get them again at bring down costs
Here's a song to reflect on your behavior; Tom Lehrer, "Plagiarize" (which he titled, "Lobachevsky"):
Note to others: if you made a post, and see two comments which contain basically the same content -- you can hover over the e.g. "2 hours ago" for each comment, in order to see the exact date/time it was posted.
In this case, @abhicrypto made his comment at 12:03 am, and the above commenter plagiarized his comment three minutes later. So, I'm positive that this is the one I should downvote.
Lol.. in fact, I'm still surprised how people plagiarize comments too. There's nothing one won't see in this world.
Greetings, sir @libertyteeth
Well actually, it might be the case that their private keys have been hacked -- I've seen this happen to a few well-known accounts since I started here last June. But I upvoted and responded positively to another comment from that account a day or two prior, so if it was hacked, the hacker didn't change the private keys...
Hmm. Those are the exceptions, I guess. Because I've seen it on some other guys post where some other guy's comment was plagiarized just to have a feel among the early commenters of the post. I'm happy with what the OP did. He smartly discovered that the comment was unoriginal because the plagiarist did one hell of shabby editing. Lol
Now, I think the tide is gradually changing from "good post, thanks for sharing" to plagiarizing comments of others.
(Ahem, I am the OP... :) )
Yeah I have definitely seen it from more accounts! Only a couple of the accounts I've seen that behavior from, said that they had been hacked. I remember one guy even had to create a different account since they changed his keys, but he did eventually get his account back. Don't recall who, but it was one of the "bigger folks" on here -- not sure if that meant wallet, or rep, as it was in my earlier days here.
I'm happy with what I did, too. :)
wow!. That's a serious one. Learning security above anything else is crucial in this space.