While the social strength of my network here on the Steem blockchain is growing exponentially on a daily basis, my financial worth is stagnant, and due to the current downward trend in the value of the Steem token, I've even noticed a slight decrease in my own net worth already, which is surprising, being that I am not normally very vigilant about such things. I'm not an economist or accountant, and I don't spend vast amounts of time studying the graphs on sites like CoinMarketCap.com or similar.
As I may have mentioned before in previous blog posts, I'm just a sickness beneficiary with too much time on my hands, and not enough liquid funds to sink into efforts like investing in $ˢᵗᵐ. That is why I love the concept of earning crypto through creation and curation. While my health situation means that I can't realistically do much these days, I certainly can create content and upvote & comment on other people's content.
I can be a bit of a victim of my own success sometimes, being that people here seem to routinely miss the fact that I'm still very new to the Steem ecosystem. I often get requests for delegation, or donation of "a small amount of Steem/SBD, such as $1-2ˢᵇᵈ worth". I've never had more than $5ˢᵇᵈ in my wallet here, and even then that was from a prize for a competition which I had entered! If I had more spare cash laying around, or lost down the back of the couch, I would gladly invest it in $ˢᵗᵐ to boost the value of my account, and even power it up as Vests (SP). But unfortunately, that just isn't realistic in my position.
However, one thing I can do is ensure that some of you people who have engaged with me here on the Steem blockchain are appropriately acknowledged. Even though I am using 
That is where SteemAuto.com comes in handy. Over the last few days I have started setting up some auto-upvotes on some of the Fanbases that I follow. I already had two of these established for 
Are you on my "nice" list? 🎅
I have added another 11 accounts to my auto-upvote list over the last few days. These accounts will start receiving automated upvotes from me, as a way of thanking you for your input into my life here on the Steem blockchain. I have singled out the 
This is just my little way of showing my appreciation, thanking people for their help and input into my life here on Steem. I will be keeping a close eye on my Voting Power over the next few days, to see how much these auto-upvotes affect it. Depending on how things go, I may need to adjust sliders up or down, or even add or remove some from my list. I am certainly hoping to be able to add more people to my list! We'll have to see how it goes.
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