Now What?
Last week, I announced I had eclipsed 1,000 SP in a year from posting, commenting, curating and contests. Now, I'm back with another milestone announcement.
Back in September, I bought STEEM when it fell below $0.70. After that, I told myself I wouldn't do it again unless STEEM fell below $0.50, which it has done substantially in recent days. So, when it did, I bought some more.
In doing so, the amount purchased, a little over 1,000 STEEM, put me into baby dolphin status. I was previously trying to estimate how long it would take me to get there through earnings here on the STEEM blockchain, and figured it would at least be February or March of next year if I was able to keep up October and now November's earning pace.
In the end, I guess, market forces were such that I bought my way to dolphinhood, just like I did to minnowhood earlier in the year.
In truth, I'm not sure how I feel about it. Part of it might be my cold. I'm just kind of worn down physically right now and can't really appreciate what I've done.
Or it could be I feel like I'm cheating, which is dumb, since STEEM is every much an investment platform as it is a social media one.
Yet, there is something to be said for earning your way, a feeling of satisfaction that what you've been doing is actually bringing results. And I have felt that, particularly the last couple of months.
Regardless, here I am, and it took less than a year to do it.
I suppose I could also blame my lack of feeling like I've accomplished something on the fact that STEEM is so stinking low right now (less than 39¢ as I write this), but for those of us who weren't smart enough, fast enough, fortunate enough or whatever enough to get in on the lower prices out of the chute, this has been a great opportunity to pick up some pretty cheap STEEM before the value shoots back up.
No, I don't know when that's going to be, and my trying to predict when it's going to happen again would be akin to trying to pick the next Mega Millions lottery winner, or whatever the heck that thing is called.
It's going to happen when it happens, that's all I know for sure.
So, if you want to celebrate with me, by all means, leave a comment below. We can talk about the good old days (like last week), when I was still a minnow, or whatever.
I do have to say, though, I am looking forward to my monthly report for November because of reaching 1,000 SP before year's end, and now dolphin status. We'll see if I'm in any more of a celebratory mood by then.
This big fucking upvote was done after pressure tension from peers at the
@steemspeak community. Some person or whatever in there, called @whatsup held a gun to my operators head, and told me to pull the trigger. Her is $30 dollars, you do or do not deserve it, but welcome to STEEM little Dolphin, Sincerely @Booster - The Original Upvote Bot - Do use me every time you make a good post. Alright I have to go away now because I have shit to do and stuff.
Well, coerced or not, @booster, thank you for the welcome and the $30. :) @whatsup must have really wanted this upvote. :)
Well, and thank you to @steemspeak community, too. I do use the app often, so that's cool. :)
A nice little bonus here! Congratulations on passing 5k SP Glen!
Ah, you noticed, @abh12345!
Actually, I know you noticed since I'm on the Wall of Fame now. :) At any rate, it was a nice little bonus. Very much appreciated.
Yes I had a quick spy as I said I'd do in the post - the 5k+ SP holders are growing :)
I am soooooo celebrating with you! Did you know we both started our Steem adventures in December of 2017, and we both decided within a few hours of each other to power up 1000 STEEM to become a Dolphin?! That's pretty much amazing, we're clearly walking about the same path here...
For me going to SteemFest 'made me excited to do it', the people are pretty much what will make this place amazing even years from now.
I do understand the mixed feelings, it's also pretty spectacular to earn your way 'up', but, it's also pretty random - who upvotes who isn't always saying much about how hard you work or that other person works... I believe buying at these prices is showing insight and indeed, you can measure it pretty much in 'months of work'.
Hope to see us both grow even more the coming year, congratulations, and get well soon!
Well, thank you. Just left a comment on your celebratory post. :)
I do remember us coming in more or less at the same time (I think you have a couple of weeks on me), and I also just recently went back to look at a few of my first posts. You were among the ones commenting on a couple of them, and among other things you said:
Well, who knew at that point that either of us would not only be making it to Minnow (from a plankton's perspective, a minnow might as well be a whale), but be writing posts within hours of each other announcing baby dolphin status?
Considering I felt like quitting half a dozen times between January 15 when you commented the above and now, I wouldn't have bet the farm on it.
That said, I guess we're both still here, and we're both doing what we can to advance and spread our upvote around.
I am feeling a little better this morning, so hopefully it will be all gone by tomorrow and Thanksgiving. :)
And I echo your sentiments for the new year. May we both grow even more in 2019, and may STEEM also grow. In value, in users, in notoriety, etc.
I think this is pretty cool and makes us pretty much Steem Siblings! What an adventure we took on, and how well we did :D
I'm glad you made it through the feelings of quitting multiple times. You now know how rewarding it is, but I hope we will find ways to tell baby Plankton they will make it too.
Hell yes! Happy thanksgiving to you!
Congrats mate. That’s an awesome achievement. If I had spare cash I’d be buying up as well. :)
I so want to be a Dolphin.
Well, thank you. It's all because STEEM decided to go and tank as much as it did. :) Well, and about 500 SP I earned on my own is in that mix, I guess.
Well, with your new job and the sale of your business, you'll have spare cash in no time. I'm not saying you'll be rolling in it per se, but again, at the prices we seem to be headed to, you won't need loads. :/
I’m waiting for 1 cent Steem lol. I’ll be an instant whale then. :P
Well, alrighty then. I was thinking I could end up an orca at that price. Whale would be way beyond me even at a 1 cent. I'd have to go back in time, take out the entire investment, then come back and buy it at 1 cent. :)
Welcome to the club. With great steem power comes great responsibility
..or great suffering. Lol!
Well, thank you @kabir88. I'm not feeling the great SP yet, but I am feeling the responsibility. Have since the beginning. I guess that means I just keep plugging along and see what I can do with it. :)
Not only with steem power.....but with every power brings us more responsibility
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Congrats! I bought my way to dolphin status a few weeks ago and don’t regret a thing!
Would’ve been dope if I was a bit more patient, but like you said, it’s like tryna predict the winning numbers of the mega millions haha
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Hey, @waphilip.
Well, thank you, and congratulations to you, too, then. :)
I thought about buying more, but decided to hold some in reserve just in case it drops down again. Got to make up for the earlier purchases that weren't as cheap as it's now turning out to be. :)
Congratulations! :-)
Thank you very much, @gtg. :) I do appreciate it.
I think what you have done is remarkable and i don't think it's cheating purchasing Steem. As you said it is both an investment and social platform and we would all do the same if we had spare funds.
Well, I'm not sure if it's spare I'm working with. It's more taking money allocated for something else in belief that there will be a larger return on it than if I just spent it on what it's meant to be spent on. :)
I guess we'll all see if I made a wise decision.
As you say, though, the funds have to be there in order to do it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be happening.
Congrats to you. Whether you bought your way in or earned it is irrelevant. It's good to see so many regulars having faith and using their fiat.
The dolphin club continues to expand. May more join the ranks.
Hey, @slobberchops.
Thank you for the welcome and the kind words. It does feel good to be a part of the dolphin ranks, and I agree, it doesn't matter how I got here. And yes, the more the merrier. Let's build the STEEM middle class.
First, good job! Second, Facebook, Twitter and any other social media doesn't pay you! so don't feel so guilty. You treated this as worth your time investment and will get an ROI for that time spent here!
Well, thank you, @steemitqa. It's all very true. Nary a cent from any of those social media sites in all of the years I posted there, even from my own endeavors. So, no guilt there. I'm okay with all of this. I believe in the idea of putting your money where your mouth is. I just know many can't, but I also know that I can't change that much either. I'll do what I can with those who are providing the content and the engagement, and go from there.
howdy sir glen! hey what does it take to be a dolphin? I guess I should just check your sp but I'm here commenting anyway so I thought I'd ask. I know it's a big number though and a good milestone so good for you and congratulations, yeah I don't think it matters how you got there. As long as you did. lol.
Hey, @janton.
So, the different levels (redfish, minnow, dolphin, orca, and whale) are based on MVests. So, you start out at 0 and above MVests as a redfish and go up from there—1 MVest for minnow, 10 MVests for dolphin, 100 MVest for orca and 1,000 MVests for whales.
Usually, though, people will talk about it terms of SP. So, right now, (because it fluctuates), one MVest equals 496.479 STEEM. Basically, that's how much SP you would need to become a minnow (most people just say 500 SP). To get to dolphin, you would multiply it by 10, or 4,964.79 SP (again, most people round up to 5,000 SP).
So, in SP, that's what it takes. In a broader sense, it takes working at it, catching quite a few breaks, and investing. In my case, it's mostly investing. :) That, and hoping that at some point the price of STEEM will stop nose diving and go up.
Right now, it's worth around $0.33 USD.
howdy sir Glen! wow, see I had no idea the price was going down even farther. Dang. Well the good news is that it may bottom out and then can only go up unless it stays down. But everyone says it can't stay down right? Does anyone really know? I don't think so. But anyway thanks so much for the explanation. What is going on this weekend that is almost over, nothing?
Hey do Mormon's celebrate Thanksgiving? and if not why not? just curious, not a critique! lol. I know they don't celebrate some of the holidays.
Congratulations!!! Good Job!
Well, thank you, @whatsup. I think you got this second round of congratulations and upvotes rolling, which I think means @soyrosa is involved, too, from the looks of things. So, very kind of you and everyone else.
But what's this about a gun to the head of booster's operator or something? :) Didn't know it worked that way.
:') Epic. Your post was highly under-appreciated, sometimes someone needs to step in to fix that :D She did well :D
Yes, "she" did. :) Thank you for excelling in the appreciation department.
lol... There were no guns only threats of guns! :)
:')
congrats brother..
Hey, @itstime.
Thank you. :) It is good to be here. I'm appreciating the welcome wagon very much.
Congrats!
Thank you, @christoryan. It does feel good. Just got to get rid of this cold. :)
I'm halfway there @glenabrethsen, my aim is to become a dolphin by the end of the year!
Congrats on the result!
Hey, @bafi. You know I have to say this. If I can do it, so can you. Actually, you don't need me to say it, since you're already halfway. Good luck, too, and thank you.
You should feel very accomplished in reaching Dolphin status. Purchasing STEEM is a viable and important part of the ecosystem. Being in a position to take advantage of the pullback (and doing it) is to be commended. I just wrote a post about how it is an ideal time for Red Fish to become Minnows since it takes about $200 to reach that.
Your purchasing and powering up helps to alter the distribution pool. I too have been buying on the way down. This is where the accounts outside of Whale and Orca can cost effectively power up.
Well, thank you @taskmaster4450. The pep talk is well placed, even if I do know and believe all of that. As I said, I think it's partly the cold talking. :)
I appreciate what you and others are doing around here to get the word out, keep perspective, and just keep keeping on. I for one am grateful for it.
I think this will be a great decision in the long term. I also bought about 170 Steem Power in the last couple of days. I know that might seem much for many but I don't have a lot of money to invest right now.\n\nIt's just that I could not help myself seeing STEEM at 0.39$. It's a steal in my opinion.\n\nAnyway, congrats on becoming a dolphin ( hope I will join the ranks some day :D ) and good luck with your Steemit journey in the future.
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Well, thank you very much @zemiatin. That's very kind of you. Good luck to you, too.
re: might not seem like much
I've made smaller purchases than that several times, so good on you. The whole fiat to alt coin to STEEM across two exchanges drives me crazy, so it took most of the year to get comfortable with that.
Now, with the prices lower, hopefully there will be many others like us who weren't around to buy in at the cheaper prices last year taking advantage of it. This is an opportunity, and whatever you can do is what you can do. I think the majority of us start with smaller amounts and go from there.
congrats Glen!!!!!! mini dolphin. I'll be following behind you soon :D
Hey, @mountainjewel.
Well, thanks. You've been cruising every week since the Minnow Power Up League started (and probably before that), so what, another week and I'll be congratulating you? :) No pressure or anything.
Lol! I think a lot of our earnings have taken a kick since this drop in prices. I’ll likely be buying my way up to dolphin if I’m to make it before my 1 year anniversary (in 3 weeks). Which I might just do if it drops back down to .37 cents or so. Keeping an eye on it in case I can get an even better deal than .42!
Congrats again 🙌🏼
I don't know. I've been doing better this month and last, so I don't know what that's all about, but I'm okay with it for now. I'll be even better with it when the prices go back up, though. Even $1 is looking good. :)
Congrats! Dolphin-dom is a pretty exclusive club, much more exclusive than your post title suggests!
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Hey, @demotruk. Thank you.
It's true. Not nearly as many dolphins as minnows or red fishes. The 541,753 is my number overall when I came in late last December. I've used it since I was a plankton, and kept it when I was a minnow, I make a monthly report of my activity and use it as part of the title. So, that's why the Dolphin #541,753. :)
Great milestone to achieve! I know that it has some bittersweet thoughts as I had always imagined getting to Dolphin by earning STEEM to power up and the such but the reality is that the prices have become too attractive to miss out on so I also have finally become a Dolphin. While some may think of it as a shortcut, I think we need more to commit to the ecosystem by investing as it will make us more accountable for our actions given the stake we now hold. This way to grow is being continuously celebrated which is great because we need more of it from others!
Well, thank you, @newageinv. You get what I'm saying. It's odd, too, because I figured out long ago it would take quite a while to get here, not to mention the next level, without some investing. And I've always felt that the more skin you have in the game, the better. The account is handed to us, there's not really any gatekeepers other than ourselves, and of course, we're given before we arrive here these expectations of grandeur that can't possibly materialize. So people think they're going to take off somehow without investing.
Problem is, there are a lot of people here who are scraping by. So, I know I can't solve everyone's problems (I feel fortunate to solve my own), but I still feel it. And I think that's part of all this. I don't want to shut off, but as you say, people need to be more accountable, too. Somehow strike the balance.
Awesome! Congratulations!!!
Thank you, @artistleonardo. I think you're next, right? :) Maybe everyone is next. Something like that.
Congrats and thank goodness another good dolphin emerged.
Thanks, @enforcer48. I take it there's been a drought on good dolphins lately? Anything in particular I should know to keep myself in good dolphin standing? :)
The stuff I've seen on the blockchain with @bullionstackers
shakes
How long until you're a tuna?! I'd like to be a tuna.
I'm pretty sure evil overlords can be whatever they want to be whenever they want to be, @deceth. :) As it is, tuna's not in the lineup, but it probably makes more sense than a minnow, given that they're freshwater fish. We'd still have the fish to mammal problem, but I'll refrain from getting into that. :)
evolution happened. Fish first. Mammal's Later. Re-Evolution. #.
Ah, @alxgraham, that's what's happening. I was too busy hung up on the fact that we were going from freshwater (if you count the red fish instead of plankton) to the ocean, instead of perhaps the other way around, but you've got the fish to mammal thing down. And if we're talking about the blockchain, crypto, and decentralization, I'll take the Re-volution (minus the 'e' :).
Ok, I'm a tuna. Thx.
Congratulations on the dolphin status, beg,borrow,buy,or steal, you got there. I hope to get there one day. (not saying you begged, borrowed or stole) I just wanted to say more than congratulations.
Hey, @bashadow.
Well, borrowing is probably an apt description, in that the money I've put in will all have to come out at some point. Hopefully, along with much more because the price went to all time highs and stayed there long enough for me to get some of it out.
Thanks for the congratulations, too. :)
Congratulations, Baby Dolphin!!! You made it! :)
That's quite an accomplishment. You're now in the top of the top of Steemit. When prices shoot up to $100 you're going to be doing well.
I'm considering making a purchase, but the funds have to come from somewhere. Maybe it's time to get a side-gig. ;)
maybe as side gig would do the trick, @themanwithnoname. I don't suppose thehorsewithnoname could spot you some funds? He's probably savvy enough to have his own investments, but it's worth a shot. :)
Thanks for the kind words. The idea of $20 or more STEEM is what keeps me going with the earnings part of this gig.
I wish I could get a loan from him, but he has all his money tied up right now. Apparently he's helping a deposed Nigerian prince. He said he should get paid back with interest. ;)
$20 STEEM!!!
Congratulations on your new status. Well done!
Did you use fiat money or SBD to buy?
I hope you get over the cold soon! :-)
Hey, @quotes-haven.
Thank you very much.
I used fiat. I didn't have any SBD or any other crypto to use. Of course, I had to go from fiat to some kind of crypto (I use Litecoin), and convert it to STEEM, but anyway, I started out in dollars.
re: cold
Yes, that would be great. It tends to show up, linger for a while disappear, and then come back worse until it's gone. It's been doing this for three straight years now, but it's been getting better each time, so either my immune system is getting better at fighting it, or it's getting weaker. One of the two. I hope to knock it out completely by Thanksgiving Day (so, I've got tomorrow, basically. :)
@glenalbrethsen - Thank you for your speedy reply. I know how to buy Steem using SBD, but haven't worked out how to use Cash yet.
Lots of liquid and plenty of rest. That should do the trick for your cold. Wishing you a speedy recovery - and Happy Thanksgiving. :-)
Good job, someday I'll be able to be... I'm just a boy haha... Greetings from Mexico :P
Well, hey, @repollo. We all start somewhere, right? As it is, you've got some delegation to help you out, for as long as it lasts, so that's good, right?
My wife was born and raised in Mexico, mostly in Neza, more or less a suburb of Mexico City. I think she's officially lived more in the U.S. now than Mexico though. Still likes her food better. :)
@glenalbrethsen Yes, my delegation is because I am a Hispanic curation project... It is fun. Also, my membership system helps me to have sp ...Sometimes I have to do power down :(...
Wow, cool! Neza is mmm, A little small, but cute... Sure, nobody can forget our food :P
Hey, nice job. I wish I had some spare coin to buy some up, but will have to content myself with the little I earn for now. I don't follow the price so was shocked at reading ti had fallen so far. No way this is entirely tied to Bitcoin as far as the price has fallen in the last 4-5 months. Its dropped by like 90%.
Well, thank you, @practicalthought.
I have a little more to go in case the price drops below 25¢, but otherwise, that's all I'm doing for now. I generally see the price at multiple times during the day, mainly to see if it's hit my trigger levels yet, or, hopefully, to see the start of the bull run.
re: tied to Bitcoin
Well, right now the SBD debt ratio is up and flirting with 10%, which probably isn't helping things. Before the hard fork change, we hit a stop measure at 5%, but that got removed. So now, SBDs are still printing until we hit 10%. As the price of STEEM drives down, the higher the debt ratio goes, even if folks are converting SBD to STEEM. So, that might not be helping, but I'm not an expert in any of this, and from what I can tell, there's never been any rhyme or reason to any of this stuff.
Congratulations Baby Dolphin 😊 You deserve it for all your hard work!!
Well, thank you, @lynncoyle1. Lately, it doesn't feel like hard work is what I'm doing, but anyway. It's good to hear from you. How are you? I haven't seen an update since the last one about Brian about 11 days ago, and then his about six days ago. Did you already visit your brother?