There is no secret to success on Hive.

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Look at all of those whale accounts!!!




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It's a scary sight, isn't it?

Big angry accounts, roaming wild with the ability to make your week or wipe out your account. Welcome to the metaverse.

A place where you live or die by your account and here it's based on hive power. It does remind me slightly of ready player one where the players with all of the resources dominate the battle fields killing off the smaller accounts.

When I joined Hive, that's exactly how it was. You had to hide in the shadows, careful not to be swallowed by passing whales as they moved from one area to the next, sucking up all of the resources.

When you are just a tiny fish swimming around with the big whales, it is easy to get swallowed up but hard to get noticed.

Looking at these accounts from a distance it might seem that they are uncontrollably large and that it is a unachievable goal to reach those levels yourself but that is not the case.

They are just further along the road than you are. Every one of those accounts started with nothing and kept on going. The majority of them have just been here for a very long time and that is how they have reached those levels.

Not through buying it or by some magic formula. They have just kept growing.



There is no secret to growth.



It's painfully obvious, it's just that most people don't like to hear the truth.

To grow your account to these levels. "You will need to keep adding funds to them over a long period of time."

You add to your account and then keep compounding those gains.

It's the same as trying to lose weight. There is no magic secret. You just have to eat healthy and exercise. Most people just don't like to accept the truth. That there is no shortcut to achieving weight loss. You have to do the right things, every day over a long period of time.

Just like increasing your crypto holdings.

When i started four years ago, i had nothing.

No money, no knowledge and no clue what i was doing. I wasted my first six months doing the wrong things entirely instead of doing the right things every day and i would be much farther down the line than i am now.

The smart thing to do would have been to see how others had reached their current growth and then seeing what went right and wrong for them. By learning from their mistakes, i could have saved hundreds of hours of wasted work to get to this point now.

In fact, I could be much further down the line than i am right now.

Some very simple things could go a long way for new users. It might seem basic but it helped me.

  • Nobody knows who you are so they won't vote for you.
    • It takes time to build a brand and a reputation. This is no different here than to anywhere else. Engage first and build connections. You can write a hundred posts but the chances are that nobody will see them. Build your brand first and then try to create that engagement.
  • Keep powering up.
    • The longer that you are here. The faster that you will grow. This is helped by growing your hive power as it earns you consumer rewards and also shows others that you are supporting their work. The more that you have, the more that you will get. People also like to see users that are committed to growth and not just rewards. We want people that will still be here in four years time sitting on our levels and helping others to grow as well.
  • Don't throw money at shitcoins.
    • It's always tempting to try and chase the next big payday but chances are that you will lose money along the way. Slow and steady growth wins out over time and if i could get back all of the hive that i have thrown at projects it would add up nicely. Hive power is the key, shitcoins lose money at some stage.
  • Engage as much as you can.
    • As newer users there is a lot to learn. Luckily the whales that are here now are the ones who want to help others. There is lots to be learned and this is the place to learn it all. You will make connections, earn upvotes and increase your knowledge just by asking good questions and participating.
  • It's a long term game.
    • Success doesn't happen overnight. I rarely does. Most success is built behind the scenes, slowly and painfully. The results are then seen as a miracle but the truth is that everything takes time. If you want to grow to those levels then you need to turn up every day and do something. Everything that you can add to your account will help over a long period of time. Hive is a compounding machine that just needs to be fed.
  • Find new ways to earn revenue.
    • I delegate out second layer tokens.
    • Rent splinterlands cards.
    • Enter competitions.
    • Blog
    • Enter weekly posting contests.
    • Look for airdrops.
    • Play games.
    • Defi

There are lots of ways to earn on hive. The main things is to keep doing them consistently and keep adding back into the pile.



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It can get frustrating sometimes looking up at bigger accounts and thinking that you will never grow. I've been there and still remember trying to earn my first 100 HP. It was slow, painful and frustrating.

Now it happens every day. That is the power of growth and compounding. A six month task now takes one day. There are others who can do it every hour. They are just further down the line than i am.

Someday, i will get to that stage but only with time and cinsistency.

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Honestly I am really touched with this post,it totally point out what it takes to get to the top especially on hive,as a newbie we face a lot of challenges actually but just like you have said it a lot time.thanks a lot for this,it's really motivating

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It all starts with the first hive that you can earn. From there it's all about what you do with it. You can quit and stop growing or you can try to earn a second
one. Then 4 / 8 /16 or a thousand. You just have to stick with it and keep growing.

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Why on earth will quit,I am definitely sticking to it and keep growing.i really appreciate this man.thanks alot

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At least several of the whales here traded lots of fiat for their stake. Not sure about a few of The Old Ones though, @freedom and maybe a few others may have ninja-mined in the first few days of the old chain.

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Some of the mega whales, true enough.

I meant more in a general sense of larger accounts than the ones over 500k.

To new users we almost all look like whales. If your account is the equivalent of a few years of their salary then you look like a whale.

Freedom was here for the mine day 1 and a lot of the big names earn from witnessing but then dan and khal would have bought.

When i joined i though that anybody with 5k HP was a giant. That was my target for the first few years but then it just kept growing.

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Those are some good tips. It makes me remember my first few months on the blockchain when it was extremely tough. It was slow but I definitely think it worked out in the end as I was consistent.

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My first year was slow but i stuck with it.

Now i feel great turning up every day and have even quit my job.

The power of consistency.

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Very well said. There is no shortcut to success on hive. You have to hustle it to the top

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You can hustle lots of areas but you need to keep doing it daily. If you do, i can guarantee you will grow you account.

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Consistency, quality and community. Its that simple, but not that easy ;)

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It's never that easy.

As i said, we all know the right things to do.

Turning up every day and doing them is another story.

That requires hard work and effort which we don't really like.

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Turning up everyday is definitely the part I have consistently struggled with. I'm working very hard to fix that. I'm hoping to make it just a matter of habit.

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How long does a worker bee work to become a Queen?I will always support the idea of personal development and long term growth but there's something disingenuous about selling people the story of whales just bootstrapping their way to the top and how duplicatable that is. It was a different climate for early adopters when it was a different platform and more fairly distributed. Much of the wealth has been distributed not by a metric of meritocracy but through networking, collusion and coercion.

There's this concept called a Risk/Reward profile. Generally the earlier you are in a project, the more risk is associated with it so in order to incentivize investment systems need to give advantages to early adopters. Later on the risks diminish so does that reward side. Saying "dont throw money at shitcoins" is kind of worthless advice because everything starts as a shitcoin and if you want to walk a mile in their shoes, doing the hard research and getting in early on a project is exactly how many whales got there. Hive isn't even a top 100 coin at the moment so people could still call it a shitcoin and retool your advice to say to not invest in Hive. Telling people to go all in on one coin is way more vulnerable than a person having a diverse portfolio. It's also very risky to give people financial advice like that from a personal liability standpoint but you do you. I can see how you would have anecdotal regret from funding projects but that's just the risk reward profile at work. I'm sure those projects had a chance to go the other way and give you a good payout had things ended up differently. Post hoc analysis like that can actually be harmful but there's always a balance to maintain between that and good Bayesian inference.

Ultimately, people need to do the work to look into these fundamental or technical aspects to see what has potential and is undervalued or overvalued and make informed market decisions with that information. These systems aren't designed to just have everyone become a whale with enough bootstrapping and hard work. Many people have been consistent for as long as some whales but don't have the botched moral compass that leads to them trading ethics for power. It's a caste system and the sooner people take ownership of that, the easier it will be to move forward. I don't think being all doom and gloom is the answer either but we need to be more transparent about how these things work or there will be long term consequences.

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Thanks for the detailed reply. I love engagement on my posts as they can only improve my content and my opinions.

While i used the term whale accounts, that was more of a visual term for large stakeholders than specifically accounts over 500k HP.

My account can give out a $2 tip and to new users that would seem crazy. Then you have a lot of people with double that at 100k HP which is is a whale to some but average to others.

Are these levels achievable for anybody?

Absolutely. Anybody can build up to 50k or 100k power with time and effort. It will take a few years of hard work but those goals are manageable. Fair enough it is a general statement but i can guarantee that if you keep showing up every day and engage that your account will grow.

It was a different climate for early adopters when it was a different platform and more fairly distributed. Much of the wealth has been distributed not by a metric of meritocracy but through networking, collusion and coercion.

This part i have to disagree with however as distribution has only improved over time. Just one year ago the real whale accounts held 49% of the hive, today that is 39%. A huge shift in wealth and power.

https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@taskmaster4450/hive-the-growth-and-change-in-2021

It does pay to be an early investor but only in good projects. The majority of new projects fail and take your money along with it. Hive is 165 on market cap which is far from a shitcoin. 165 in the world is still impressive especially for an indie project. The no165 in stocks is "Moderna", a huge pharma company that you wouldn't call a shit stock because there are more valuable ones above it.

The people that invest today are still early compared to the ones that join in another four years time, so it's all relative.

If your aim is to create a portfolio then you would be right to diversify but as this post states about growing your hive account then my advice stands. Pump as much as possible into your account and watch the growth.

Ultimately, people need to do the work to look into these fundamental or technical aspects to see what has potential and is undervalued or overvalued and make informed market decisions with that information.

This is solid advice for anybody who is investing and research is a big part of it. Do your own research and look for value.

We do need balance on the chain and it can't all be the cheerleader effect but i am confident in hive. It has faced a lot of struggles and come out the other side, time and time again.

Anybody who does the research would see that we have a lot of issues left to overcome and alot of problems that need to be fixed for further growth but that they are getting solved. One by one.

The chain has lasted this long due to the talent and hard work of the community and that isn't going anywhere soon. I do have other investments but this is where all of my time and energy goes into for the simple fact that it is the best in my opinion and i want to keep growing.

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I could call Moderna a shit stock and I bet I could rally more people around that position than are on Hive. This might not influence the price that much but Moderna's market cap is 150x that of Hive. That doesn't make it definitionally a penny stock but common parlance matters more than technical definitions in this regard. The main point is that saying "don't make bad investments" is kind of a reductive statement. It's obvious post hoc and unhelpful since that's too late and anyone who can spot that before doesn't need the advice.

Taskmaster's statistics are an interesting read but you can't trust that data on its face. First of all, there's such a thing as sockpuppet accounts. Most whales have extra accounts and there could actually be more wealth owned by less people but these metrics wouldn't be helpful in letting us know if that is true. The second problem is orbiter culture. Because of the shift in wealth and pareto principle naturally centralizing the flow of wealth, many people latch onto bigger accounts or groups to try to grow more and there is a compromise in autonomy where these people pander to the wealthy interests so they can raise themselves up in the caste system. So its important to note that it's very easy to obfuscate the truth and make the platform appear more busy and decentralized than it really is.

But just to back things up a little to my original point, all I was saying is times have changed. The meta shifts over time and going back over history and looking at what people did that worked at a different phase and then reverse engineer that to apply to today is not a sound strategy. We could look at real world examples to show just how silly this idea is in practice but I don't think it should require more explanation.

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Brilliant tips man, and what's funny...Most of the people I have met here share a similar 'start' like you mentioned...We were all blank slates, but stuck to it...Something to be said about staying the course on Hive!

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We lost a lot along the way but it's great to see how successful the ones have been that have stuck with the program.

People like yourself, taraz, task, ect... that do the hard work and keep stacking.

It works and we know it.

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Great post man, newbies would do well to read it and heed it. Oh to have read and heeded a post like this back in January 2018!

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