HiveBuzz is a project run by Hive account@arcange that tracks all kinds of interesting tidbits about an accounts life here on Hive, and back in the day, on the now-unmentionable chain. Yesterday, one of the rarest of badges awarded was distributed.

Yearly Author

This is the badge for someone who has posted every day of a calendar year, meaning at least 365 times and was awarded to 86 accounts. However, looking at the list, there are also a few automated accounts in that list, so the humans who submitted daily, is likely a fair bit lower than that number. However, when it comes to the activity statistics on an account, I only really look at my own numbers, because I know what has gone into achieving them - and it is far more than many realize.

I have seven yearly author badges.

And it is good to remind what a "day" is on Hive, because it doesn't matter where you live in the world, the time is the same everywhere.

What's the time?

Hive Time.

To verify your eligibility for the Yearly Author badge and confirm the timing of your post submissions, Hivebuzz references the blockchain's timestamp, which aligns with UTC

Here are a few places you can find out the time - but it aligns with UTC, so you don't have to care too much. Currently, the blockchain is two hours behind local time in Finland.

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You can also find out other interesting bits of information from varioss sites, like the circulating HIVE supply,

For those that don't know, the HIVE supply is not static and grows and retracts depending on what is happening. The numbers are above are the current HIVE and HBD supply which are precise right now, and the third number is the virtual supply, which is if all of the 33M HBD were converted to HIVE right now, it would buy almost 100M HIVE.

You can also find the rewards fund, which is the pool from which all the rewards are issued, whether it be author payouts, curation, or witness payments. This number is in HIVE only and the HBD will be converted from this at time of payment.

This is where the inflation of HIVE comes from, but it can also be generated in other ways, like through overpriced HBD (it is "meant to be" stable at 1 USD) being converted to HIVE. Howevever, that also allows projects like Hive account@hbdstabilizer to fund the Hive Development Fund and keep HBD relatively price balanced.

It has been a while since I have dived into all of the numbers on Hive and have largely stayed out of the backend stuff since my stroke. I used to spend so much time understanding the way it all works, but I feel "out of it" in many ways now, because there are so many developments going on and I just can't keep up. However, I am glad that the development is happening and there are new innovative aspects coming. I am looking forward to seeing what this is going to bring to the ecosystem:

https://vsc.eco/

I have a lot of reading and catching up to do.

But before that, as I said above, I have seven yearly author badges, which is because Hive account@arcange was nice enough to backdate the badges to include past activity. Similarly to the yearly, there are monthly and weekly badges also, and going on me joining Hive January 29, 2017, at 11:42:12 (UTC)

It has been 95 months, 414 weeks, 2897 days.

There have been 8 weeks where I missed posting in a day, and 3 months where I missed posting on every day. These all appear in the first few months of me starting on Hive, which is why I can confidently say that I have posted daily for the last 7.5 years on Hive, without fail. I know it is without fail, because everything is recorded on the blockchain faithfully.

However, the reason I wanted to write this article isn't to brag about consistency, or even tell people to be more consistent with their writing because it is good for mental health. It s because, I think that most of the current authors and users on Hive don't spend much time at all understanding how Hive works in the backend and I would predict that many don't know how many ways there are to view the Hive blockchain, or dive into the history of accounts.

For instance, the day my account was created, a transaction was created and stored on the blockchain. Each transaction since has also been stored like posts, comments, votes, account updates, witness changes... and now there are 17,295 pages of transactions.

I believe that when people get more interested and start exploring the backend of Hive, they also discover that there is a huge amount that they haven't realized, that they might want to ask questions about, and may change the way they think about Hive, and perhaps the way they act on Hive too. Hive is fascinating.

The more you know, the more you grow.
The more you learn, the more you earn.

A lot of people focus on the earnings here, but aren't interested in learning how the ecosystem works. It isn't necessary to know everything, but not even understanding the basics is a poor strategy. I know, because that is what I was like when I started, and it wasn't until I started chatting with people who know a hell of a lot more than me, that I started to "get it" and realized that Hive isn't just a place to write and earn something, it is a place to participate in the future of content and the evolving digital economy.

What do you know?

Taraz
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