August is over, time to calculate earnings! It's been a long month. I started to talk with people about HIVE in real life, wrote a manual customized for those I want to onboard, and step by step I'm getting clearer on where I want to go with all this. There are still many ideas floating in my head.
I made a lot more contacts on hive, gained quite a few followers, and started following others. I read and read and read, even on vacation through the amazing keychain app, commented a lot and got into 
HIVE
I started to collect my monthly data now, so I can make nice graphs and such, as I still haven't found a great page that does all that for me. There's not much to show yet, but next month I will include some.
| HIVE | June | July | August |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beginning | 2852 | 3527 | 4237 |
| End | 3527 | 4089 | 4810 |
| Change | 675 | 562 | 573 |
| Power-Up | 140,5 | 143,25 | |
| Growth | 24% | 20% | 17% |
| Earnings | 1006 | 1124 | 1146 |
| HIVE Price | $0,20 | $0,22 | $0,20 |
| Total | $196,17 | $243,91 | $225,76 |
I'm pretty happy with the ongoing growth, though it is slowing down. I've been writing almost every day at least one post, but again, I wrote less on Splinterlands.
As you can see, I got 2 big votes this time for articles - on Splinterlands. Those still bring the most rewards overall, so if I was reward-oriented, I'd be participating in the challenges all the time. But it's less fun, to be honest.
My organic HP growth went from 4237 HP after the last #hpud to 4810 HP as I write this post, so 573 HP earned, 11 more than in July. Maybe it's that one day? That means, even after powering up, it's obvious that my growth is slowing down, from 20% in July to 17% in August. Still good, and the bigger my account gets, the harder it is to grow organically.
There's the PU. Since just today the price for HIVE got smacked, I didn't not make as much USD-Equivalent in August as I did in July, where it was $243.91 at a price of around $0,217/HIVE. This time, it was "only" $225.76 at a price of $0.197/HIVE. Considering the time I spent on the blog, it probably comes down to around $2.5/h, which is the unofficial minimum wage here in #ecuador. And that is without counting all the metaphysical profit I make.
Since I spend a lot of time curating, those rewards are growing steadily. AS you can see, there are more and more days that I make more than 1 HIVE just through curating. No, it's not a big part, around 8% of my HIVE earnings, but I'll repeat - this is all while having fun.
Network
I found quite a few awesome writers. While most of my conversations are still with GalenKP, Azircon and the notorious 
There are some that I missed last month, which I now see as I compare the two stats. I should make more reading lists, so I don't miss so many great posts. My favorite of the new ones on the list is 
Overall, I like that my network is growing, and that I'm getting more and more engagement on my posts. Natural engagement, without enabling comment rewards. And productive engagement, with sometimes many interesting thoughts and discussions evolving.
Conclusion
It's going really well, though I'm not sure if I can make it to my goal of 7,500 HP by the end of 2025 organically with only powering up 25% of the HBD part - maybe I'll have to do more. I'm happy with how things are developing, and wanted to share that in separate post. Every day I learn a little more about how the blockchain works, how the rewards works, and with that how the community works. That starts to have some real influence on how I experiment community in real life as well, how I think it and even the way I contribute.
The money part is nice, but I don't plan on taking any of that out ever, so it's just a fun number on a screen. That part is still more of a game to me, though that might change if I really pull off the part of having people pay for my bread with HBD. Though that might not be with this account, but the business account. On which I have to start working...
Big plans, little time!
How was your month? How is your network doing? And are you happy with your overall growth on HIVE?
Please feel free to engage in any original way, including dropping links to your posts on similar topics. I'm happy to read (and curate) any quality content that is not created by LLM/AI, as well as read your own experience and point of view, I love to learn!
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