Personal Progress Update @ Q1 2023 - Record Increase in Hive Power!

It's time for another quarterly stocktake of my blogging adventures on Hive.

As a quick introduction, I made my first post on 29 Sep 2021 and it was an introductory post about my Splinterlands journey. Since then, it has been around 1.5 years and I have been actively posting and curating on Hive.

And I just want to say how grateful I am to be making friends within this community and receiving so much support, be it in the form of upvotes, comments, or even sharing of new knowledge.

So here's what I have been busy with over the past 3 months:

• Splinterlands: I have continued with my Splinterlands-related postings, including the weekly challenges, crunching card probabilities and statistics, and free card delegations! Feel free to check them out under my posts if you are in need of card delegations!
• Weekend Experiences: This was something new I discovered in Q2 2022 during my random browsing of the Hive posts, and has now become one of my weekend posts. I really enjoyed challenging myself to come up with something interesting to share for the weekly prompts and I enjoyed reading other sharings within the community to. Finally, the curation committee are very generous with all the rewards when they see writers putting in effort to write a good post!
• Freewriters: I have been diligently writing ZapFic entries for the Monday editions and I was extremely glad to be recognised as the winners/runners-up in a few of my entries.
• SBT: I am also quite involved in the SBT (Splinterlands Battle Token) project, by participating in the raffles, Discord chats and also writing posts to spread this awesome token and project. It's nice to see the value of SBT go up and the project itself growing too!
• Self Improvement: I have also been documenting my journey of "Walking To A Better 2023" where I set out to achieve my goal of clocking of 8,000 steps per day for 2023.
• NEW COMMUNITIES: As you would probably know, I have been quite active in the Liotes Project (go see my ranking hehe!) and the SBT Project. This quarter, I actually spent some time to expand my awareness and I started doing some reading and research about projects such as ALIVE and SLOTHBUZZ. To dip my feet into the waters, I have also delegated HP to @youarealive, @slothburn and @bdvoter, while I continue to build up my familiarity! Grateful for the communities' hospitality!

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Here's my top 3 posts for this quarter. Interestingly, they are all about Splinterlands battle strategies and all the featured cards are the new Soulbound Reward cards. Thanks again to everyone who has showed your support by upvoting my posts.

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Now onto the financial aspects of my blogging experience, here's what I have accumulated so far as of 1 Apr 2023 (at time of writing).

Hive Wallet

This has been another amazing quarter in terms of the accumulation of HP and HBD. In fact, it is the best quarter! Compared to the previous quarter, I have accumulated 548 more HP and 178 more HBD in my Hive Wallet. Apart from the rewards from postings, I have also traded/converted some Layer 2 tokens into Hive this quarter and this contributed an additional 32 Hive. All in all, my Hive Wallet has grown from USD 1,012 in the last quarter to USD 1,626 currently, largely due to the price appreciation of Hive this year.

Coffee Fund

Last year, I decided to formalise this process as my personal funding for my Coffee Fund! As to why it's called the Coffee Fund, it's because I am going to use the money to buy myself coffee while I write my posts or think of writing ideas at the cafe. Hehe!

For background:
The topic of profit-taking has been in my mind to reward myself and I have been spending some thought on how to do it in a sustainable way, as I still want to be heavily involved in the Hive community. So after exploring various options, I have decided to withdraw only my HBD interest as "profits" on a quarterly basis. Since HBD is going at 20% APR, it would be around 5% of my HBD each quarter.

For this quarter, it worked out to be 41 HBD. Seems like this system is working fine, with a good balance of sustainability and reward.

Hive Engine Wallet
*only included tokens with substantial values, i.e. top 5 tokens

Have included a column this time to provide a description of the tokens so that it helps me keep track of my involvement in various projects.

Like I have mentioned before, unlike Hive and HBD, tribe tokens in the Hive Engine Wallet are more susceptible to massive price swings and have poorer liquidity, so these USD values are just for reference (i.e. likely lesser if I would to divest all at one go). This is also why I have separated the totals between the Hive Wallet and Hive Engine Wallet.

As mentioned above, I have continued to divest some Layer 2 tokens, and convert them to Hive. There are two main reasons to this. The first reason is because I realise most of the Hive Engine are seeing a decline in value (in terms of Hive). The second reason is converting to Hive not only helps to preserve some value (from the price decline), it also boosts my vote power and allows me to vote on good posts regardless of the tribe tags.

That said, I have also been accumulating some tokens which I think have the potential to do well too!

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So that's I have!

As always, thanks for reading and have a pleasant day ahead! See you in the 2023 Q2 update!