Welcoming the Month of Friendship!

For me it has been amazing to see the month of January go by so quickly. In reviewing my list of things to do this month, I have ended with more than what I had started with. This is both from a professional and personal perspective. One area where I also fell behind is my crypto portfolio. At least this was a blessing in this guys as prices have continued to be weak.

As I prepare for my monthly purchase of steam, I have found myself with a good amount of liquid Steem in my wallet. While I have already some plans with a part of that steam in addition to the steam I will be buying (Steem Monsters Cards), I will still have more than I really need to power up given the price of Steem right now. Therefore, what better way to start the month of friendship with giving something back to the community? I will take a page from Hive account@preparedwombat who often uses his liquid Steem to purchase Hive account@steembasicincome SBIs for community members!

Hive account@steembasicincome has revamped and automated this program for the benefit of all users. With the changes, I have felt that it has given the community more encouragement to not only participate in the program but to also engage more in the echo system. For that reason I will be also sponsoring some SBI for the following accounts:

Hive account@nonsowrites: great content creator with great aspirations and ideas for bringing value to the community

Hive account@fitinfun: active content creator and Twitter guru to help get the name of Steem trending

Hive account@pifc: awesome project to promote curation and engagement

Hive account@steemchiller: don’t know what I would do without steemworld.org and his continues dedication to improving our experience in the blockchain

Hive account@leaky20: appreciate his active engagement on my posts as he gives great feedback

Hive account@hitmeasap: despite the adversity, inspiring stories of community building and how to engage and grow an account in the ecosystem

Hive account@thedaolson: welcoming a new user that will surely be active in the SBI community for obvious reason (check her introduction post to know why)

Hive account@conradsuperb: love traveling the world with this account

Hive account@soyrosa: just because she is a great community ambassador and is also giving away some SBI

Hive account@rollandthomas: his posts and active engagement on Hive account@timm often remind me why I love investing

Hive account@gniksivart: another user that has also recently started to actively engage with my content and provides great perspective and insight

Hive account@preparedwombat: great example of how great the SBI program truly is

Hive account@roleerob: enjoying his retirement adventure every day and am encouraged by the value he will bring to the ecosystem as he starts this new phase in his life

I appreciate the value that these users are providing to not only the community but the echo system at large. We need to continue to motivate the growth in these types of users which all have different approaches but at the end of the day attribute to the value of the block chain.

Now back to getting to my list of things to do before the end of the month. I am still over a day behind on my feed as well as needing to prepare for the end of the latest steam monsters season. I wish everyone a great start to a new month that can encourage us to continue working together as a community and engage to bring value to the echo system we all love. Plenty continues to happen across the platform and it all seems to be headed in the right direction so let’s be ready for more users to engage with!