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An elephant chasing at a mouse?

BTW: I see that you are a new account. Welcome to Hive!

Hiveblocks.com shows information about your account. Visit this page:

https://hiveblocks.com/@goatmanfu

Egads, the page says that you don't have any Hive Power. That means you can't create posts and that your upvote value is worthless.

I wonder why esteem.app is creating accounts with no Hive Power. That seems wrong.

To get Hive Power, you need to buy some HIVE and power up. I checked coingecko.com . It says that HIVE was going for $0.12 .

The amount of HIVE in your account determines your voting power. The higher your voting power, the more you will make on the platform. The catch is that powering up your HIVE freezes the HIVE. The power down process takes 12 weeks. So essentially, powering up freezes your funds for 91 days.

Esteem.app probably has a way for you to buy HIVE. I bought mine through blocktrades.us from the link in my wallet.

Good luck, I hope you can get enough HIVE in your account so that you can upvote.

I see that you reblogged several posts. Sadly, reblogging does not provide you with many benefits. You need to get a block of hive power in your account for the account to work.

Thank you for your input and advice. Elephant chasing a mouse is an interesting interpretation. I will get some hive power soon.

I hope that buying HIVE works out for you. When I wrote the post, HIVE was trading at $0.11. The price went insane. I hope you didn't buy at the peak!

The price spike happened because several new exchanges started selling HIVE which created an artificial demand.

It is great that you have HIVE. The problem with hive.blog is that it lacks a middle class. The platform desperately needs accounts in the thousand dollar range.

I just looked at the upvote calculator . It says that 2521 HP at 100% currently gives an upvote of $0.033. Each upvote consumes 2% of your voting power. Voting power regenerates at 20% a day. People usually only upvote 10 times a day. That would distribute $0.33 per day. The curator gets half of the payout.

The site HiveBlocks.com shows info about your account:

https://hiveblocks.com/@goatmanfu

It says that you used 40% of your upvote power. It will take 2 days to completely regenerate.

Everything on Hive goes by a seven day cycle. The payout comes exactly seven days after a person writes a post. Upvoting a post that is more than seven days old does not get a payout. So upvoting a post that is more than seven days old is futile.

It is generally best to make sure that you have an active post on your blog when you upvote. A lot of people will see your upvote. They will then come into your account and upvote your current post.

It is a silly game.

The best way to play the game is to write a post. Then upvote posts with the same tags. A large number of people visit the accounts of the people who upvoted their account. This is especially true when the value of the upvote is over $0.02.

I hope I didn't steer you wrong. HIVE was an incredible buy 20 days ago .... when it was $0.11.

Thank you for the info. You are a very helpful Hivian. I bought at $0.18 and powered up right away, I wish I didn't and sold off and bought back in. Oh well I am still up from what I was at.

I am glad to hear that.

The game now is to see if you can pull out more money than you put in. The well timed buy might help. I would not be surprised to see the equity drop back to $0.11.

When one thinks about the game: the only way for me to cash out is for someone else to buy in. Since there is a fixed amount of currency, there must be people who spend more than they gain.

This is actually true of most equities. Good luck.