Aggressive recovery.

2211 HP. That's how much I powered up artificially. Almost 50% of what I had. Fate is taunting me with a very low HIVE price. I already passed my goal of 7,500 HP for 2025, and now I'm aiming for more - a KE of 1 (it's down to 1,13!). Not being an extractor at all, not even from HIVE to Splinterlands.

HIVE

This one is a bit harder to calculate this time. I changed my settings to "HP Only" a few weeks ago, hence I had to change the calculations. Since I didn't post as much in a very turbulent October, it wasn't that hard.

I put the extra PU aside as it would destroy the Growth value. 12% is pretty good, going up again. But at this point, the organic growth is not that important anymore, but the strategy. I'm trying to get a people on board through distriator and was somewhat successful so far. But I'll lay the whole strategy out in another post.

It's not only my own account that I'm growing. I also did a PU for my secondary accouns:

Hive account@pandalacotacachi is the account of my business, a bakery. The idea is to use it for tutorials and such, and of course for new people. "Create good content on HIVE and swap your HBD for bread and cookies!" It currently sits at 400 HP and I want to bring it to 500 HP. There's a lot of movement going on with that account, if you look in the history. 15 clients already use HBD from time to time to pay. Then I move the HBD either to my blogging or my shopping account, the latter looking like this:

Hive account@beelshops is my shopping account. Hive account@meno told me to do it that way, and I agree. I don't want to flood my evolving blogging account with "I ate at Hive account@subscotacachi and paid with HBD!" - yes, Hive account@subscotacachi and Hive account@galtencotacachi are two businesses that I got on board (still have to show them how to set up profiles properly, please be patient with me!). Working on more. It currently sits at 300 HP, and I want to bring it to 500 HP.

Both accounts follow my curation trail, that's why I want them to get to 500 HP, so their vote counts a little. They also auto-vote my posts and will auto-vote those I on-board. It won't be worth a lot, so it's not draining the pool in a massive manner, but I hope it motivates them. I'm still not sure about this, though. What do you think about that?

Network

My network is pretty much the same. There are some new contacts that I stumbled on through Hive account@snapie, like Hive account@boersengelaber and Hive account@les90. I like using Snapie in the morning, during my gym time. It's good for my body as I take around 1min to curate between each set of repetitions, something I didn't do before. But I'm getting older, so it's preferable to adhere to the recommendations for pumping weights.

There are some changes in my incoming vote, because I wasn't as active, especially recently. The strike and then the fights with Lily's mom are keeping me unmotivated, unfortunately. Also, my brother is leaving, soon, so I'm trying to spend much time with him as possible, as Lily is with her mom.

Conclusion

Thanks to my growth, both organic as well as the "get back to 1" part, I'm now able to get Account Creation Tokens. That is really nice, as it saves me 3 HIVE each time, though I didn't mind burning them - the Distriator-Kickbacks are usually worth it.

It's not only the HP that I'm growing like crazy. One of my passive income paid out interest before I had planned it, so I bought some HBD of Hive account@meno and Hive account@joseamenac and their brother who's account I don't know. I think. Names confuse me. I hope that I can convert some more USD into HBD on this direct way. So much easier than going through Binance and all that hassle.

I always keep a little supply for cash exchanges, so the people I get on board can get HBD as directly as I get it from meno and his family.

I'm getting there. Quite quickly, faster as I had expected. Here's my image from a wonderful little tool that the fabulous Hive account@beaker007 made:

I think I'm getting closer to becoming a "Balanced & Consistent Builder" on HIVE. What I still don't know is twhat "hive_savings" is - can anyone enlighten me about that?

Goals

I had to re-define my goals as I'm making nice progress:

1. Getting to 7500 HP by the end of 2025. Now: 10k in 2025
2. Grow my HBD stake by 50 or more each month until reaching 1,000 HBD.
3. Getting my KE down to 1.4 in 2025, and to 1.2 in 2026. Now: KE of 1 in 2025.
4. Getting 10 people on board to use HBD as transactional tool until the end of 2025. (15 already!)
5. Getting 5 people on board to create content on the Hive chain until the end of 2025. (Have one, 3 prospects)

That was way quicker than I had expected. Doesn't mean I'm done! Set new goals and keep going.

How was your October? Did you have troubles creating content, too? Or did you skyrocket thanks to some new supporter?

Please feel free to engage in any original way, including dropping links to your posts on similar topics. I'm happy to read (and curate) any quality content that is not created by LLM/AI, as well as read your own experience and point of view, I love to learn!

Former posts:

June 2025 - First HPUD
July 2025 - Record Earnings
August 2025 - Layer by Layer
September 2025 - Pulling up or hanging on?