Hey Hivers, happy Hive Power Up Day!
For once I'm not too late, it's barely after Midnight in my time zone, we just started June. But all these months that I skipped posting my HPUD update, I noticed the obvious: if I don't do it right away, procrastination takes over... And that is exactly what happens last month, with the post sitting in my drafts waiting to be finished for days, then weeks, and it was just too late. Anyways, let's get to the details of yet another successful Power Up Month and Power Up Day.
HIVE
Even if I stuck with my '100% Powered Up' strategy for my daily posts, I was able to accumulate a little bit more liquid Hive over the last few months. However, I stayed with my usual 16.666 HP power up today. If all goes according to plan, I'm preparing a slightly bigger one in July.
As expected, with my last interests, my HBD savings reached the first milestone I had set for myself: 200HBD. And the 1.666HBD I added today, although symbolic, will help reach the next one at 300HBD. I am not setting a target date for it though, this is kind of bonus, as my priority still is Hive Power of course.
As usual, the account growth looks almost linear. Just a couple posts getting slightly higher rewards, but overall, very steady. Starting from 7567HP, I was able to add about 183HP to reach 7750HP. When I kept it at that level 2 months ago, I really thought my 5HP daily target would be very challenging, but surprisingly, I didn't fail, and it was beaten the last 2 months again, almost easily.
And of course, adding today's PowerUP, I reached 7767HP, exactly 200 more than last month at the same time. Once again, very consistent with the past few months.
SPORTS
A few months ago, I strongly reduced my SPORTS monthly target down to 250k. But, it picked up again, especially with the help of a big SPORTS stake automatically upvoting most of my daily Actifit reports. And for May, that means about 435k added to my stake, taking it over 23M. My 24M target for year end now seems not only possible, but it could even happen this summer. Actually, reaching 25M becomes very possible for this year.
ALIVE
Like I mentioned in April, the We Are Alive Tribe is thriving again (yes, it is a very poor pun with the #AliveAndThriving tag...). All the challenges, rewards and engagement are back, and then some. I especially like the new 
PHOTO
Like I probably say every month, PHOTO is not exactly something I focus on, but most of my posts include many photos, and I like to think some are decent. So it makes sense to try and get PHOTO. I added about 3800 to my stake in May, which is more than double my target (1500 per month).
LOLZ
Possibly the last month I track LOLZ in detail. I removed most of my delegations to switch them to Diesel Pools. I kept a few ones, and I will keep staking all the LOLZ I can, but obviously, the growth will be much slower than planned a few months ago. In May, I only added about 294 to my stake, which is really not that bad, and allowed me to get past the 10k LOLZ mark.
Targets
- Like I said, I'm surprised I was able to consistently beat my 5HP daily target the past few months. I guess it's time to push it higher, and try 5.5HP. Yes I know, it sounds like a tiny increase, but for me, that is significant. If I can make it, there is a chance I could reach the 8000HP milestones with my July PowerUP, when I didn't expect getting there until mid-July at best. Fingers crossed 🤞
- It's also time to increase my SPORTS target as I explained. Let's go for 450k per month.
- My ALIVE performance has been up and down, but I will try to also increase the target to 1000AP per month.
- With PHOTO, the performance fluctuations have way more amplitude, so it's difficult to predict. Even though I unstaked a few to move to LP, I will increase the target too, let's try adding 2500 a month.
- No more target for LOLZ. I expected between 100 and 150 per month, it may be slightly more.
- Like I mentioned in the past, I started accumulating several other tokens (reached 2M PEPE for instance, BBH, BBHO, WAIV, SME, etc...) but there's no real target. Same for Diesel Pools, I add a little weekly and we'll see where it goes.
And that is for May, this was a good month. Pretty much all targets were reached, even beaten easily in some cases. But the trend does stay the same: consistent and steady growth!
Hive on y'all, hope you have a great month of June!