Four years to be exact. I never remember these things much. I never remember the famous Hive Power Up Day (but I powered up some hive on random days), basically I don’t pay attention to these ceremonies. Instead I like to focus on everyday, one day at a time. I wouldn’t say during the last 4 years I have checked hive everyday. I didn’t. I even took a 1 year long break from posting. However, I was always active. Taking part in the governance of the chain, helping small projects take off. Helping individuals and above all cleaning trash (which is not an easy job). But there is no reason to talk about that, as it is really not that important. The important part is to be here consistently, hold the stake, and participate in all the major projects of the chain as per my ability.
Often people talk about my negative curation, which is a tiny amount compared to simple upvotes or general curation that I provide. It is both manual and automated. As per HiveTasks, I have given out 712 upvotes to 533 unique accounts over the last 7 days with 0% self-voting and my voting CSI is 44.8. It is fairly evenly distributed to the best of my ability.
This is similar/identical to the old steemworld tool. The easiest tool, as far as I am concerned, to check anyone voting patterns (yes downvotes too!)
Honestly speaking I do not look at the price of hive. I consider hive as a venture capital investment with a fairly long 'lock up' period like 5 to 7 years or even longer. So from my point of view, my lock up period is not up. So there is no real reason to look at the price of hive. But that being said, I am a trader, futures trader to be precise, so people do ask me about price all the time. I typically give a standard answer that I have no clue about price and I can't predict price of anything, let alone hive. Out there in the futures market, I typically just react to the price as opposed to try and predict it.
Above is the weekly chart of hive since its inception. It looks very reasonable to me. For a inflationary token, $1 is a good point of reference for me personally. Lately there has been a lot of good effort by smooth and others to keep the inflation low. I thought for a time being hive might even be deflationary. That certainly helped and is helping the price thanks to hbd.funder project.
So with lots of new accounts coming into hive thanks to splinterlands, the future looks excellent from a VC point of view. I am very bullish on hive and crypto in general. I am keeping all my hive powered up, and looking to add to my position if the price drops a little further. Until then, cheers to 4 more years and beyond of hive journey!
