100K HP Progress Report — 58% There, and the Math Doesn't Lie

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Hello Hivers!

Back in June I said I was powering up to 100K HP this year — no ifs, no maybes. That post got some attention, so here's the part most people skip: the follow-up where you actually show your work.

It's been 8 weeks. Let me break it down.

The Numbers So Far

Everything here is straight off the chain — pull up my account history and check me.

Hive Power today: 58,269 HP — that's 58.3% of the way there
Powered up since the June post: 6,891 HIVE across 56 power-ups in 56 days
54 of those 56 days had a power-up, including a streak of 52 days straight
Biggest single day: 4,062 HIVE on June 18
Average pace: ~123 HIVE per day

The number I care about most isn't the total — it's the streak. Some days it was 6 HIVE, some days it was 200. Doesn't matter. Miss one day and it gets real easy to miss two. The habit is the strategy.

So When Do I Actually Hit 100K?

Here's where I stop cheerleading and let the calculator talk.

Remaining:            100,000 − 58,269  =  41,731 HP
Current average pace:                      ~123 HIVE/day
Days at current pace:  41,731 / 123     =  ~339 days

At my current pace, I hit 100K around July 2027. That's the honest math.

But I said this year. To land it by December 31:

Days left in 2026:     ~145
Required pace:         41,731 / 145  =  ~288 HIVE/day

That's 2.3x what I'm doing now. Steep? Yes. Impossible? Also no. Look at the numbers again — that one 4,062 HIVE day in June moved me further than a whole month of daily stacking. The pace isn't a flat line, it's a floor with spikes. The daily streak keeps the floor, and the plan for the back half of the year is more spikes: when bigger wins land, they get converted to HP instead of sitting liquid.

And HIVE is at ~$0.042 while I write this — cheaper than the ~$0.05 I called "buying conviction at a discount" back in June. The discount got better. My conviction didn't get worse.

The Builders Haven't Slowed Down

In the June post I said the energy was shifting and builders were still shipping. Two months later I have receipts. Look at what shipped across the ecosystem just this summer:

@ecency is on an absolute tear — on-chain polls shipped this week, hosting Hive communities as their own branded sites, a leaner rebuilt Hivesearcher, even MetaMask login for onboarding Ethereum users. Four real releases in one week of posts.
@acidyo is building a bunch of stuff at once — Decentmemes updates, curation experiments like autovote burn, and Holozing:Wilds went into public alpha in July.
@liketu shipped front — a link-in-bio that's actually yours, on-chain like everything else they do.
@threespeak's encoder network just keeps humming — weekly infrastructure reports, every single week, no drama.
@splinterlands hit its 8th anniversary — eight years of continuous operation on this chain.
And on my end, @terracore keeps rolling and Hive-Swap just published its first-quarter stats — 5,500+ swaps and 1,000+ bridges since May.

A huge thank you to everyone above for continuing to build through a nickel-priced market. That list is why I'm still here.

The Governance Conversation Is Heating Up

The other thing I'm watching closely — and honestly a big part of why the 100K goal exists — is that some genuinely important debates are happening on-chain right now:

HBD interest is no longer a settled number. The top-21 witnesses are currently voting anywhere from 6% to 12%, with the median sitting at 10%. Where that lands affects savings behavior, HBD demand, and the whole stablecoin story on Hive. If you hold HBD in savings, watch which witnesses vote what.
DHF funding is getting a hard look. The fund holds about 23M HBD, and there are live debates about how it pays out — including a proposal to scale DHF payouts when HBD printing is suppressed. Meanwhile Keychain, Ecency, and @acidyo's AI coding subscriptions for Hive devs are funded and delivering.
Public goods are on the ballot. Here's one that genuinely surprised me: as I write this, @peakd's sustainability proposal — the frontend half of Hive uses every day — is sitting below the return proposal. @ecency wrote a sharp piece this week asking what Hive would look like without funded public goods. Worth your time and your votes.

Your vote is your autograph on the ledger of blockchain governance — I said that back in my witness voting guide and it's truer than ever. Taking part takes two minutes:

Log into https://peakd.com/
Witnesses: https://peakd.com/me/witnesses — check where your 30 votes are and whether those witnesses' HBD stance matches yours
Proposals: https://peakd.com/proposals — vote for the infrastructure you actually use

This is what stake is for. Curation rewards are nice, but 100K HP is a governance-sized vote in every one of these conversations. That's the real reason the goal exists.