Slowly Slowly Catch A Monkey - Account Growth

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I have been tracking my growth for nearly 3 years now on Hive and the time is getting closer to moving up in the rankings to becoming an Orca. I can remember the days of the Red Fish League and Minnow league which @abh12345 and @paulag used to run. That seems like distant memory a long time ago, but actually only a few years. I miss those days as it taught you the art of growing by being consistent each week. That was the one thing I realised early on to start out as you are going to continue each and every day.

At the time I did mention why there wasn't another league to help Dolphins grow into Orca's, but realise now that two or three years is quite some time and years of commitment on Asher and Paula. I recognise quite a few names still here from those leagues as they helped with user retention levels. They helped me so much and gave me the grounding of what was required to grow.
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Getting there day by day and reckon another 6 maybe 7 weeks still.

Currently I am frustratingly close needing another 3800 HP to achieving the next level as it is a big jump from Dolphin to Orca. When you look at the effort it has taken just to get this far I will be well over 2000 posts and 10's of thousands of hours which is a scary thought. The great thing is I would do it all over again as it has been really enjoyable even though at times challenging. I was hoping to achieve this goal within 3 years but that looks like I will have to wait till April as Leo has wrecked my Hive plans by being so good and I have diluted my growth over the last few months converting big portions of HBD for Leo. A good sacrifice as I believe in both Leo and Hive having a great future.

There is no special one thing you can do as it is a combination of just staying active supporting others around you and looking to find new people who have interesting topics they write on. Everyone is different with their different views and opinions which for me makes this place so unique and has kept me entertained every single day.

The weird thing is if you come here for the money then I think you will struggle as the money will sneak up on you as your account grows. This is a bit like paint drying as it does take time firstly getting a foot hold before you start seeing the difference each day.

The slowly slowly catch a monkey best describes my Hive experience so far as being hasty with wanting it to happen just doesn't work. Having patience and heaps of patience pays off as the accumulative growth will kick in at some point. A prime example is how my Leo is going up slowly with my stake just on 2000 and over 3000 if I include the curation account. Last month my vote was worth only 0.140 and now 0.180 so a 25% growth in 4 weeks is decent as any growth is good in my book. This is the being consistent part kicking in and why you must post every day and engage with other members.

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I am still struggling with my curation account. I think I am only pulling in about 1 Leo every two days or so. I wait for it to build up and then send it over to my main account. It feels like I am doing something wrong, but I can't quite figure out what yet. I need to go back through all of my auto votes on Hive at some point too. I think a lot of the people are gone (which I guess means I can just leave them).

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You can't go wrong with Leo as it is linear. I am pulling in around .5 Leo per day but my VP is on 80% most days which at least means I am using it all. It just takes time so be patient and it will grow slowly. I should be on 6.3 per week but VP is never 100% so 3.5-3.6 is fine for now. Every month it should improve.

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Should I move my LEO over to my main account or stake it to that curating account?

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Just think, soon your blank tokens will be also compounding too. You just need Sports to go to 5 cents and you have retired. All the time and work will pay off. We forget how many other things add up like my splinterlands deck is probably worth 3 grand.

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Sports unfortunately has 10 trillion so never going to even get to 1 cent as that would value it at 100 Billion so I need more stake lol. Everything adds up and even Pal I have no idea what the use case is that they said there was has gone up in value. Blank tokens should be good plus 3Speak and Dlux when it arrives so all good.

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Why Can't they change the tokenomics with a vote or something, just do a reverse split 100 to one, or 1000 to one? I really thought Sports was going to be faster than Leo as far as expanding users.

Blank tokens should be good plus 3Speak and Dlux when it arrives so all good.

That's right, Dlux and 3speak, so many things to look forward to.
I can't wait for all these things to unfold, interesting times my friend!

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I asked them for a burn when they moved from Steem to Hive and suggested losing some zero's. 10 trillion is a joke as it is 310 000 years in seconds to give you an idea of how many tokens there are. I think if you have 100 million or 1 billion it wont make any difference and that part needs to change. I have slowed down my growth as there is no point as what are you accumulating?

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I think you are doing the right thing by growing your Leo and Hive, you have plenty of sports if it does something great. I still don't rule the out, it is Sports. (Tampa Bay lol,) I still can't believe it. My buddy put 20 grand on them when the odds were 11 to 1, he got like 220 thousand dollars off of that!

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That is a great bet to win and happy for him. I am all in with Leo and Hive and still posting in sports but more occasionally than every day. CTP on my radar now plus long term on UTOPIS as ROI is 20 months so 5% per month I can live with for now. There is still loads happening and just need more of everything.

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That was a proper ass whipping lol. First battle I have ever watched. Send some more next time you demolish people as looks like fun.

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Lol, I did whoop some ass while earning some Dec tokens, Ill show you a dragon battle the next time I do the dragon quest.

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Thanks for the mention, I'm glad the Minnow power up league still gets recognition for growth and retention as I (perhaps biasedly) think it did help. Although I did run some stats on the EL league a while ago and found the retention rate way higher than the average level.

It's a grind, there's no way around it without investment, but at the end you are stacking tokens which have a value, and hopefully enjoying it along the way.

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Yep the daily grind which I thoroughly enjoy and you helped me so much by teaching me the right way to grow through the leagues. I think it is more of a personal challenge to me to prove that I could do this meaning anyone can lol.
The leagues you guys ran were under valued and should have been backed more for the value they added to the growth of smaller accounts. Maybe when Leo starts on boarding in the masses you could suggest something similar as it will be needed.

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Cheers :)

Well hopefully something will appear and perhaps a bit more automation will be involved. Part of the reason we didn't expand was due to time (and lack of support from further up), and automating the process more would help. I think the interfaces should be presenting this data (as well as the EL stuff), but then you take the community aspect away which I think (especially in the past) brought a lot to the posts.

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Well lets hope there is a possibility and understand the time factor involved. The community aspect was great and made you meet new users who you might not get to know under normal circumstances which formed bonds.

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Yes that's right, and a bond helps with retention. Let's see.

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There's something to be said for keeping the faith with the platform and just steadily stacking - so many ways to earn 15% APY - it's awesome!

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dude congrats on working that grind and seeing the result from it!

curation is not really that much of a thing for me although it keeps getting better and better.

It is just cool to see that over the years this effort we put in is actually doing something! keep it up!

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These are really impressive numbers. I have only been active for 2 months and have been active daily only for the last few weeks. These are great milestones to aspire to and I wish you luck going forward with those bigger jumps

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Being consistent is what counts and the growth will happen. Thanks and for you as well.

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Thank you for the advice! Just gave you a follow, looking forward to reading your articles!

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