Wow now at 40 months of Steeming behind us we now continue onward's into yet another month and gosh it was 4 months ago were the report marked my 3rd year on Steemit.com, and now here we are guys in 2020 to which I still have no plans nor want to be quitting anytime soon.
Getting the report out
It was crazy 7 month's ago I was late with the monthly post due to many different thing's, visiting my father, work not giving me the opportunity with some awkward shift times, my internet was cut off for 9 days, after that the same problem again my net was cut off but this time only 3 days as some workmen didn't reconnected two of my lines after some "maintenance" plus I had longer work shifts and other commitments which make it difficult getting the report out again, then I got delayed as I was trying to understand why suddenly I was having issues purchasing Steem, I still got the report out slightly earlier than the previous report, but it wasn't great.
Finally around Christmas time I got the report out in good time and now hope on this first month of the year I can do the same.
Anyway I want to mention that I know there is a lack of posts coming from myself but before you think I have given-up on Steemit or got bored/lazy that's actually very far from the truth.
I was actually spending alot more time instead behind the scenes being more active with communities on the Steem eco-system which infact rewarded me for my efforts.
This ship and "our growth" still very much continues sailing into the upward direction, I hope that you can see that as we reached dolphin and the 7500k mark before the end of 2019.
My hope was that this was a better way to continue our growth especially with these lower Steem prices.
And like promised I have started putting-up some other post's out here and there when I can, but while the community seemed enthusiastic with curating after the hardfork22 changes it seems like once again the interest in voting as gone down again, or maybe it's just me, how do you guys feels?
Good Month?
Right after the HardFork21 came into effect I felt alot more confident that it may not be so bad moving forward I still expected a %20 loss, but strangely what happened was the complete opposite.
It actually made a path for some of our best "2nd month's" so far.
I say "months" because we have been beating our own records a few times since going into hardfork22.
Still Steem continues low which means you can generally earn more Steem and probably why this happened.
Make Your Own Goals
First I hope you will all play-along here with me, you should have in mind some kind of Steem related goal for 2020 even if it's just something small that you would like to achieve on the blockchain as it helps you to stay focused.
My big Steemit.com goal last year was to reach dolphin, this happened finally after 2 years I was very happy about this as it was a goal I had from a very early stage since joining Steemit.com.
While I still have some payment related goals that I would like to achieve this year, other users have said that I should set sail to becoming a Orca, but I feel that is too much of a far-fetched goal for me right now.
I was amazed that we even got the 2nd Dolphin badge at 7500 and so with 7500 SP looked away our mission was to position ourselves with the best possible Steem Power "out-come" before the end of the year to reach double dolphin.
And I think we have done that with "7.841 SP" Locked away.
Anyway I hope you will join me on this journey onward into the crypto future of things to come.
10000 SP DOUBLE DOLPHIN
WE CAN DO THIS! And I appreciate all of you who have helped us get this far.
And so... our course as been set! Now let's GO!
Gods-speed.
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Over 3 years on Steemit.com the price as been low for months, but I of course have no plans on quitting any time soon aslong as I'am not forced too by any ridiculous changes.
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So much as happened since I first joined Steemit.com I remember back in November 2017 "and will never forget" the amazing experience that was Steemfest 2 ( thanks to @roelandp for putting this together)
In December I went to a Steemit supper club hosted by @allasyummyfood unfortunately I couldn't attend the other supper club's but in February I got invited to attend a Steemit meeting in London hosted by @redrica, @ultravioletmag and @teodora it was definitely one of the best meetings I went to, the music was loud at times but that didn't stop us getting to know each other (but many of us did lose our voice's the following day lol)
In April I was at the London Cryptocurrency show which had around 50 Steemians attending, and there was also some great speakers representing Steem in the UK.
I didn't get the chance to go to Cyprus, Vegas, Indonesian, Korea nor many of the other big Steembased events as this was down to not being able to get either the time off work or because of the required funds for such things, mostly the later.
I did manage to also attend Steemfest3 which seemed to attract alot more developers than content creators or bloggers some of the ones who did attend did mention the atmosphere being much different this time round.
And with all this I managed to get enough SP to finally reach Dolphin in 2019 on March 22th.
What I didn't manage was to get the funds for attending Steemfest-4 but can't say I tried as much as the costs were much higher this time and I didnt see them being achievable and so instead what I done was I powered-up 300 Steem to my account it hope's of locking more of Steem's value and helping others.
I remember back in 2018 from day one Steem and SBD's were erupting and going record breaking crazy, this was a huge shock to many experts and newbies alike it was one amazing start to the year, the price then settled abit but still in-between its "settled high's" we saw Steem at around the $3 mark.
Steem as been much lower these days it started due to the Bitcoin fall, it took Steem down a path of survival with Steemit INC even being forced to lose %70 of its staff and the site itself being in danger of closure, but now we are no longer in such danger.
The recent price drops have indeed shocked many who were not expecting to see Steem ever go this low again, especially with the Bitcoin's recovery going to 10k, but on the other hand its giving those interested in Steem a great opportunity to buy into what the whales were previously holding so dearly and so I say its the time for opportunity not doom and gloom.
Moving Forward With New Hope And Opportunity!
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At The London Cryptocurrency Show
I have felt for sometime a big problem is how many mid level accounts just don't get much support for their content.
And yes that includes those who have put out "top quality content".
And when I say "mid level accounts" I'am still talking about those who are minnow's who sometimes according to many curators no longer qualify for any curation support after reaching a certain level.
Shame really as we need more strong mid level accounts as this is to help support each other as many of these accounts actually still struggle to grow regardless of what you have been told about it being easy once you have "xyz" Steem power or Reputation. It's not!
But atleast there seems to be a few more out there who are supporting all accounts.
Anyway doing these monthly reports often help's me stay in check, plus I have heard from you guys that the data can be useful to newbies on getting a better idea on what to expect from the Steemit.com platform.
But before going into month 40 and its results "This" especially for the newbies can be helpful, let me show you a very quick simple recap of my 3 Steemit.com years.
Month 1 📅
Month 11-12 📅
And there you have it 12 months of Steeming earned me....
2.784 Power
727 Followers
And a reputation of 64.1
Year 2 📅
Year 3 📅
Yes I realise these aren't the most amazing results that you were probably expecting, but for someone who didn't bring in a previous fan base or was aided by any of the whale's nor part of any inner circle I guess these aren't bad results.
They definitely aren't the best results, but they also aren't anywhere near the worst.
Ok so now you have seen my results for 3 full years on Steemit.com and what you can realistically expect from someone in my situation.
Now we move on and focus with this month's results.
📅 Month 40 - 13/1/2020 the results are..
Ok so this month I was expecting to do possibly around the same as the effects of hardfork21/22 continue which as been mostly positive for gains.
But the other reason I suspected we might do good this month was because of the Steem price remaining low, and as you know the further down the Steem price goes the more Steem you can earn from people with some decent SP behind them, but this month we were not blessed with any big whale votes.
The price of Steem being lower I hope as proved just how great it can be for building-up your account.
4 months ago instead of it being a big SP cut-off, which we expected due to the hardfork21 it was actually our newly crowed best 2nd month, with a gain of 241 Steem Power.
But things got even better 2 month ago we managed to get a gain of "403!!!" which I believe we wont be able to beat that any time soon and definitely our highest.
As I suspected we have started to go down with SP gains and this may continue to be the case over the next two or 3 months.
And while yes this time we done a little better than the previous results but this was due to celebrating Christmas and New years where I brought a little extra Steem for us.
And so thank you to everybody who as contributed to getting us this far.
It will be very interesting to see if we can make roughly the same next month, something around another 300 SP would be awesome.
When in comes to follower's please remember there was a error a few months ago which made it look like lots of followers were lost, but that was not the case and instead we have been slowly gathering more.
And so with no sudden big loss instead we have gained another (4) which is not as surprising as the 19 we gained 3 months back, still it's something it's nice to get.
For reputation, it's great to be finally getting closer to that mighty 70, now we are only 2 away from that goal.
I can definitely see us getting there now..well at some point, I remember when 60 seemed so high, but hopefully this year we can bag a 70 rep?
Still it's looks difficult to obtain it in that time frame it's a long road up-ahead, plus I think since the HF21 it as got tougher to gain rep which I did mention was expected to happen and I think it's a good thing
And I can't complain we managed to slowly get 68 rep, hopefully we can get up another 2 notch's for this month but that is wishful thinking.
Other STATS 📊
Apparently there are around 1,355,000 Steemit.com users and so out of all those users and also since the last time I checked my own ranking as a "Steem Stake Power Holder", I am around position (##2249)
Which for me I am very happy with such a nice result, it still isn't the highest I have ever managed, as so far the best position was at #2225 but my gosh are we dam close to that now!
I do hope to one day reclaim that spot last time I was there was about 2 years ago! seems I'am getting closer again and it's been thanks to also your support that we have managed to get up this far.
It's a good outcome a report from 6 months ago was the last time went downwards, it wasn't by much something silly like 3 spaces down, but it was still slightly disappointing because on the previous 4 reports we had gone up around 50 places each time! Plus on that month it was actually one of our highest for earning SP and yet we had actually gone down in the rankings.
Still the good news is this just proves my point that even with Steem going down people are buying alot and the wealth is spreading. On the plus side we managed to go up about 70 places in the previous report and now for this month we managed around 80 places upwards, wow this is some of the best jumps since I started Steem 3 years ago.
Highest Steemit Earnings Score? 👊
I had a post that made me just over $50 the first month I signed on, and that's when I saw it! The Steemit.com potential!
But would you believe I never beat that reward record for a whole year! Yes that's right meaning it was only on month 13 that I finally beat my score from all the way back in month 1, how insane is that!?
While it sounds insane you must remember that the price of Steem during month 1 for me was over $4.00 !! Which was only surpassed on January 2018 when Steem was over $7.00! And so my new high score to beat is $94.00 which was the result of month 13.
Steem Power 👊
My most successful Steem Power post was actually back in month 7 when I had one post which made me 271 power!
My highest post so far on votes? 👨
The most amount of votes I managed on a single post so far was 213 this was not aided by any bots nor did I buy any upvotes, but still in the end that post only made me $8.60.
mysitemyway.com
Followers 👪👪👪👪
When it comes to followers.. sorry but the "Dead Followers" type of a tool that I used does not work anymore, I'am not sure why having such a thing seems to be so difficult.
I have now used like 4 different tools which have all had their own problems and eventually fully stopped working argh! So please if anybody knows of tool that works let me know in the comments section below.
If you are still here and active don't forget to give me a upvote and let me know you are still alive in the comments section below, as you might be missing out on upvotes from myself because I might just check out your blog and upvote you back.
Speaking of followers we have the "2500 followers badge" which required me to gain 500 new followers, it was the hardest followers challenge so far but now the target is set to having 3750! Wowsers! And that means I need to gain another 1250 extra followers!
3 YEARS AND NEVER A POWER DOWN!? 🚀
To my active but also supportive followers I want to thank you all for your support so far, as of course remember that the more power and weight you can add for me with your upvotes the more I can give back to the community when I upvote you back, check out the wizard's badge for my curation level below, also your upvoted Steem power gets locked when you vote for me as I have "NEVER" powered down once since I started here on Steemit.com over 3 years ago!
MORE THAN 73,000 UPVOTES 👫
The locked Steem Power of course helps the price of Steem rise up, but to also give you an idea on how much I have voted over the years I have done over 73,500 upvotes!
Which puts me in the TOP 500 of users who as voted on your posts.
So what are you waiting for? Vote now and lock-up some SP for a better Steem future.
I also want to thank you guys for helping me get to SteemFest2 and those who supported me for Steemfest3, I still owe abit of money back for the trips but I will get there eventually, well that is if Steem ever turns around.
Closing Last Notes
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Please don't think your up-votes aren't worth anything or don't count because they really really do, with Hardfork21 there was fears that they might became completely useless but it still continues to add value to your reputation.
Another thing is please vote more on those who are actually active on Steemit.com, too often I see auto-votes on people who are rarely active, or to those who don't vote on anybody else's post's or even rarely communicate's with others and then those who are always powering down, yet many are feeding these accounts.....seriously it's a BIG cause for Steem's value to continue to go down yet many continue to upvote these accounts!?
I believe we need a strong number of dolphins as there are too many in power who just vote for their own rich inner circles or who are not even actively voting, but yet I see many supporting them, if you want to support those with more SP then give the dolphin's a helping hand as they are more likely to vote back and will shape the future for a far more fair share of the rewards pool.
Not enough whales are voting on the minnows or dolphins, creating a predictable rewards distribution, realise that we no longer have as many active whales voting.
But the past sold SP doesn't worry me and it does seem that in the end Hardfork21/22 is dealing with such problems, but perhaps now those who many are naming the "Steem Nazi's" are taking some cases a little too far? Maybe the SMT's or perhaps even better the communities which are coming out soon will better a solution.
Still the low price is a nice gain for those who want-in regardless of the change's coming into the future I still hope some people will create content on Steemit.com and get paid for it, hopefully earning something more than just a few cents for their efforts.
To make it clear I'm not having a dig at the whales, I'am saying we need more people who are actually active, locking away their Steem Power but also curating, vote on those who are supportive and have some decent power behind them like this Steem will actually grow, so vote now and help me make this happen.
Our Ship Is Now Dolphin Powered
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-Steem Price-
https://steemit.com/steemit/@simonjay/daily-steem-price-update-31-10-2019
-Month 30 Of Steemit Monthly Reports-
https://steemit.com/steemit/@simonjay/month-30-steemit-monthly-report-15-3-2019
-I Have Powered-Up To Dolphin!-
https://steemit.com/life/@simonjay/powered-up-to-dolphin-22-3-2019
-Young And Now Disabled By Vaccine?-
https://steemit.com/familyprotection/@simonjay/young-and-disabled-by-vaccine-7-1-2019
So if you like this page I need you guys to do me 2 easy things.
1.First please upvote this page.
2.And secondly dont forget to follow me below.
Also since votes don't always = $ and you if want to see more you can send me Steem Power Tips to @simonjay to help support me.
@paradise-found - @karenb54 - @koskl - @hanshotfirst - @mammasitta - @akomoajong - @yusril-xabre - @surpassinggoogle - @whatisnew - @kristy1 have already done this so a big thank you to them all!
Good luck for this year Simon, congratulations on getting the post out on what seemed like good time, and your gained SteemPower.
Thanks liberated, hope Steem gets better for you, and yes much happier with it's release this month. Some decent SP locked away but much more needs to be done and I sure do hope to reach 10000 SP soon.
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