Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate and the estuary of the River Stour, at low-tide.
Weekly Savings Round-Up
EDS eco-system breakdown and model
There's a new post with all things EDS, my favourite token. The delegate-to-mint EDS service offered through 
ListNerds
You might remember ListNerds and the crazy summer of 2022 before it all went down the plug hole. Oh, how we laughed.
ListNerds is an email marketing thing, it was actually a good way of finding new content and people to follow.
It has a free subscription service where you can post one email a week promoting your account, provided you have read enough of other people's emails yourself to build up your little stock of mail credits. You didn't need many mail credits to be able to reach everyone who was on there.
At its height, I don't think there were more than 1,200 people and I found it easy, maybe ten minutes a day, to build my mail credits. I ran a couple of evaluations and found near its height, using ListNerds would garner 200% more views of the post I was promoting.
I thought it had a lot to offer newcomers and accounts, like creatives, that were looking to build an audience.
Sadly, it came to a sticky end. I'm not sure what happened but the inflation was a bit crazy, and there was a paywall, intended to kickstart the economy, with ListNerds at 2 HIVE. Well, that created an absolute frenzy. It you were receiving a thousand ListNerds for a marketing email and each ListNerd was priced at 2 HIVE, well, you would get a little active, no?
The paywall was a fine example of "once its gone, its gone" and it was. The first accounts to get their unstaked ListNerds sold, sold, sold and then the price dropped to zero and everyone was stuffed, stuffed, stuffed. What a lesson that was.
Apart from that fundamental problem, it never quite worked properly, there were issues with the paid subscriptions, the verifications counter never moved, and now it seems the inflation distribution for staked ListNerds and CTP have stopped. Teething problems, I don't know what, but once the price hit the floor, ListNerds followed soon after.
Now, I understand there's a new operator and I thought I'd see what's happening. Well, my email was sent to 203 people and you can easily stack up 200 mail credits over the course of a week. I should have said "say, 'I came from Listnerds'in a comment" but I forgot. It was a bit of a joke back in the old times, that little catch phrase.
So eighteen people opened the mail I sent on ListNerds and eighteen of them clicked through to the post I was promoting. I got some upvotes on the ListNerds site but they wouldn't have been enough to earn me any ListNerds (2.602/20). Interestingly, I only appear to have 14 unique views on that post, in spite of the 18 clickthroughs from ListNerds.
The majority emails are from conventional affiliate marketing people, rather than promoting Hive content. They would have been downvoted to oblivion when the site was active. Checking this morning, there are about fifty emails, three of which I would be interested in reading and clicking through.
I'll try again, asking for the catchphrase and offering an incentive. Have you tried ListNerds? Any thoughts? Let me know below.
Savings Goals
Let's see how we're doing:
| Asset | Goal | Start | Last Week | Today | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hive Power | 115,000 | 100,400 | 105,840 | 106,085 | 92% |
| EDS | 4,600 | 3,299 | 3,806 | 3,831 | 83% |
| HSBI | 1,000 | 741 | 955 | 959 | 95% |
| HBD | 10,000 | 5,374 | 708 | 722 | 7% |
Progress
- EDS, EDS-VOTE, EDSD - Everything going well here, massive increase in delegations to
EDS Income Token | Fixed and Variable Savings Plans
EDS Dollar (EDSD) Release Post
Blogging - Soon!
Saturday Savers Club - 2024 Launch and FAQs. Fifty-four registered savers now. Anyone can join at any time by commenting with their goals on the weekly post on the
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HSBI - HIVE basic income - I'm growing these through sponsoring HPUD and other challenge posts over on Saturday Savers Club. It'll have a nice boost this week.
What's New
It's been another busy week. This time I was staying in another part of the country, sorting out various things and working. I'm feeling a bit shattered now, some of the organising is a bit wearing, but I'm planning a quiet afternoon, once my Saturday Savers Club duties are out of the way.
Have a good week everyone!