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.
Everything here is straight off the chain — pull up my account history and check me.
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.
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.
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.
@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 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:
@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:
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.
Powering up. Building. Staying. Voting. Same plan, now with a progress bar.
58% done. If the streak breaks before the next checkpoint, call me out on it.
Remember — this is just a gnome on the internet showing you his math. Do your own research, and don't take any of it as financial advice.
What's your stack looking like this year, and are you voting on any of this? Drop a comment 👇