Hive Accumulation Progress - Sept 1st

My long term goal is to reach Hive Dolphin Status and my short term is to reach 4000 Hive Power which I should reach this next week than I will be aiming for 4500 Hive Power as my short term target.

Targeting Dolphin Status

Dolphin Status may still be a ways away but every week if I can add to my Hive Power will get me just a little closer to that goal. I know it is just a new title with no additional benefits but it does give me something to aim for.

Even though I might not reach it this year, I am not just going to give up trying to do as best I can this year, I will continue to post and do as good as I can to make progress toward that goal.

To achieve Dolphin status you must have 10,000,000 Vests.

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I currently have 6,614,894 from 6,543,089 Vests in last report. This is an increase of 71,805 Vests up from last period reported, so still like 3,385,106 Vests.

Activity on the Hive blockchain while earning Hive translates into Vests. I am not very knowledgeable about how the back blockchain calculations regarding Hive Power or how Vests work but only know that I need to target 10,000,000 Vests points to advance to the Dolphin status.

Hive Engine lease board

I have made a total of five Hive Power Leases in the month of August. All five with an APR over 10%. I was only receiving around 8% APR on the Hive Power curation so believe this is a very good improvement to my overall return.

Two of these leases will be expiring soon so if some more are offered over 10% and I have the Hive Power, I will probably be picking up more Hive Power leases. I think this helps those that need to the extra Hive Power and also helps me accumulate additional Hive.

Hive and HBD Accumulation

I changed the format of my progress update posting to not be as granular in all the detail. I will continue with the higher level post and just report my current amounts.

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Today's Hive Balance:

Liquid Hive - 25.297
Staked Hive - 3986.496 of which 2880.945 is delegated

Liquid HBD - 10.983
Staked HBD (Savings) - 138.883
(Staked HBD earned Interest - 1.497)

I participated in September's Hive Power Up day by staking 10 Hive.

Also, I did add more HBD to my HBD savings to take advantage of the 15% APR savings rate as well. I don't yet have very much in HBD savings so want to get it at a much higher level.

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Last report's amounts:

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I think tracking my ranking will also be of value when measuring my progress. I am currently ranked 2721 from 2742 holder of Hive Power moving up 21 positions in the ranking. By tracking this metric, I am hoping to move up in the ranking each and every week.

Even with the small advancement in my ranking, I still added to my balance. As I get higher in the rankings, it will be more difficult to pass others. My assumption is that people with a higher ranking are more active thus earning around the same that I am earning thus making it harder to move up.

This wk's ranking:

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Last period's ranking:

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Alive Target

Alive is one of my largest holding on layer 2 of Hive. I have been trying to be more active in the community activities as well.

I staked 300 additional Alive tokens since my last report. I am debating if I should stake my liquid balance or add additional buy/sell orders to the Alive market.

The value went down but I think everything crypto went down over the past two weeks. It is just a normal pricing cycle that I have grown accustom.

This week's balance:

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Last period's balance:

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