Another week has come and gone and here we are again, looking at how we did. Faster and faster it goes. It's easy to get obsessed with stats and data. I try to avoid that by not focusing on it too much until I write these weekly reports. But here we are, so let's dive in.

~ Hive ~

My current goal is 25k Hive. This past week I made 105.150, bringing me to 12,977.15 total Hive Power. That's 51.9% of my goal!

So let's break that down. 25k - 12,977.15 = 12,022.85. I am hoping for 25k by the end of the year, or the first day of next year since that will be the Hive Power-Up Day. There are 41 weeks till Jan 1 (thanks, ChatGPT)... 12,022.85 / 41 is 293.240244. Divide that by 7 and get 41.891463 per day that I need to be earning. That's more than it was last week. I'm falling further behind.

Double the 105 I made this week to account for the HBD that I didn't switch to Hive yet (that may be a mistake if the price of Hive keeps climbing here...I was kind of gambling that it would keep going up and down) to get roughly 210. I'm about 80 under-pace. Hmm... There is a cumulative effect here: As my HP goes up, even if my post rewards remain the same presumably my curation will keep increasing by a certain amount. That will certainly help reach my goals! But I'm not good enough with math to have the first clue of how to figure that.

Well, not much to be done except keep writing and try to do better this coming week.

If the price of Hive has a big drop again I'll buy a lot more. And if it has a big jump, rewards will go up and that will certainly help me in reaching my goal. So let's hope for one of those two, eh?

~ BRO ~

My goal here is 500 BRO. The price of Bro isn't bad right now. I'd like to see it drop just a bit more before I buy, but it's not in a bad place.

At any rate, I inched up a little, earning 0.177822 from my delegation and from various LPs, which puts me at 453.450 total or 90.7% of my goal. On one hand, that's not great progress towards 500, but on the other hand it's not bad for entirely passive earnings. Well, only about 1.5 hive at the current asking price of 9.169600 but still, any passive earning is good earning, eh?

~ PIMP ~

My goal with PIMP is all the PIMP. But just to pick a number for achievement motivation purposes, my current goal is 50k PIMP. I made 276.046 PIMP last week, putting me at 46,426.5567 — 92.9% of my goal.

My earnings were probably a bit higher, but once again I put a lot in the Swap.Hive:PIMP LP so I'm not adding that into the total.

Pimp 3.0 hit last week and that means a daily Hive dividend started! Pimp just keeps getting better and better. And EngineWitty says even better stuff is coming!

The weekly pimp meetings (Wed at 13:00 UTC—join here if you want to attend) are getting better too. Every week we have at least a few Hive project leaders come to tell us about their project. We hear so many good things every week, it's getting to the point where I'm going to have to start taking notes.

Between Ray's projects (Bro, LGN, and Cine) and Pimp, it's hard to choose the most exciting one.

~ SPS ~

No goals on this one, but I am watching it. From brawl winnings and staking SPS, I got on average 32.732 per day this past week. I'm not selling, but just piling up what I get. The price of SPS did creep above 3 cents these past few days. That's a nice increase from closer to 2 cents where it's been for the past few weeks. Will SPS ever hit the high it once did? Only time will tell...

And forward we go! It was a strong week. Let's see how this coming one goes!

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David LaSpina is an American photographer and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku.