The second bi-weekly Hive goals update
The first bi-weekly update was written 2 weeks ago, you can find it here and I focussed on half of the tokens only, which I will repeat this way for the time being as I don't want to talk about every token every week while some tokens will not have any progress worth mentioning that week. After all, there's only so much I can buy every day/week!
It still means sometimes I will leave out a token if there's nothing to mention or add a token (such as HSBI shares last time) to the tracking list if I want to focus on growing these too. So the tokens I discuss today, will (if all goes well) not be discussed until next month, and those from two weeks ago, will be discussed in the next bi-weekly update.
$HIVE
First, let's check the status of my Hive power. I've been publishing content every day of the month and this means with today's post I'm just 1 day away from earning the monthly hive author badge! Yay! Although I just had two posts that were a bit higher than the normal payout average, I'm still continuing this daily routine as I want to finish this whole year for the first time ever!
Below you see the status of my Hive power a month ago:
And this is the screenshot from today:
This means I earned 332.12 HP in the past month, with a weekly average of 83.03 HP weekly. Not bad but not great either. I hope to up this a bit the next coming month. I think that leasing HP has been a great help as I've seen the curation rewards go up quite a bit. Let's see if I can manage to lease some more in the next month to maybe add a bit more curation rewards as well.
$HBD
Next up, HBD, which I've not been adding to savings only this month. Instead, I've swapped HBD to Hive several times to buy HSBI shares or just to have liquid Hive for other tokens. Last month, I had this in savings:
As you can see I'm due my monthly interest claim tomorrow but here you can see what the status is a day before claiming:
More than 10 HBD waiting for me to claim tomorrow, woop! Although the HBD in earnings does not reflect on my actual earnings in HBD this time, it's still visible that I've added a nice sum this month. I went from 613.488 HBD in savings to 685.276 HBD which comes down to 71.788 HBD added growing with a nice 20% interest rate!
$PIMP
Although the road to 100k is still slow, at least there has been growth in the past weeks.
Above my stake in the previous update..
And here you can see how much $PIMP I have today.
Number 7 on the PIMP rich list again as from today, I dropped a place but after my buy today when I swapped a token I never use, I swapped these funds back into PIMP to get to the 76.4k.. At least it's less than 25% left to 100k! I wonder when I reach it but my guess it it will take months with the current post rewards.
I'm trying to faithfully use the 3 tips every single day, I forget one here and there sometimes but I try not to so at least I can add 16 each day to my own stake as well while 3 others also build their stakes a bit. It's a cool system!
$LOH
In terms of HE tipping tokens, I can only mention that I upped my LOH stake a bit to hand out a second vote every day. I was lucky to win the LOH contest about budgeting and that upped my stake to 40+ so I figured that I'd be smart buying a few more to get above 50 tokens to tip twice a day.
This was my stake the previous update:
And this is my current stake:
That's actually pretty nice as I almost doubled my stake!
A change in tag usage
Today I received a message from a Leo curator pointing out that using generic tribe tags should not be overdone, which made me think. For as long as I remember, I hate using tags because usually on Hive it meant that our content, which we put our heart and soul in (even back in the Steem days) was not seen when we'd use a tag with a certain topic from the blog we wrote. Especially considering that most of my years on Steem and later Hive contained long form content, thus time and effort, rereading, editing etc.
We all learned to focus on using tribe tags to make sure these saw our content and mainly, that the content would show up on their tribe. After all, we didn't want the content to vanish into nothingness and never be picked up by anyone..
At some point, generic tags appeared and they were the sweet answer to the empty tag spots we had left on our content as well earn some tribe tokens while doing so. I actually forgot about pob and vyb for a long time until I saw some .vyb and .pob votes pop up not too long ago, so sometimes I add them just because I have free tag spots left.
Today I checked my wallet after that comment and realized it's not even worth the hassle for a rare vote here and there because I'm looking at a few tokens not worth more than 2,50 bucks anyway.
Now that InLeo is focussed on driving traffic to the site, and we can even earn ad revenue if we reach certain levels of stake and views, it makes so much more sense to change the tags to related topics. This means probably more traffic will come this way as well, which will be worth much more in the long-term. I'm going to be careful using generic tribe tags, and at least add a few relevant ones with more thought.
Let's see how this works out in the end, I'm not at 500 staked $LEO just yet but I'm getting close.
That's it for today
I'm going to look at the other part of my Hive goal tokens in two weeks and check the ones from today again in a month from now.
Thanks for stopping by!