3 months ago I wrote a post regarding HIVE Power and how much the vote value had dropped during the last hard fork. At one point in November the vote value my account had was an amazing 9.54 HIVE per 100% vote and then dropped to 7.74 HIVE value on a 100% vote at 100% voting power. This is the equivalent of losing 9 HIVE per day in curation rewards and I did see this as a setback.10 HIVE was the vote target I was tracking and aiming for and then things changed literally overnight.
Since the hard fork on HIVE your vote value remains the same whether you have 10%, 50% or 100% as it makes no difference anymore. The HIVE vote value dropped dramatically losing around 25% and my mind or logic told me to make that lost ground back another 25% stake was required. Back in November my account had 177K HP and now has risen by roughly 14% and is on 201K. The HIVE vote value has risen back to 9.54 HIVE so back to what it once was prior to the HIVE hard fork.
The HIVE vote value is a tool I use to gauge real growth as curation rewards directly impact your growth. What is very noticeable is the difference in price value which has no impact on your growth as this is all about accumulating HIVE and how much HIVE is staked. A $0.50 difference for the same vote value in HIVE tells it's own story of what the crypto markets have done over the last 4 months. This obviously can change going lower or higher at any given moment and why accumulating and growing the stake is the important part here.
It is understandable how some people can lose the motivation mainly for the reason they are concentrating on price versus the stake. Price plays no part in growth and is only important when the markets are ready so it should be ignored or it will mess with your mind set.
Having stake is so important for growth as your main source of rewards you can control comes via curation and the APR which is currently sitting at 4.45%. Post rewards is not in your hands and is up to the community to decide so all you have to rely on is stake rewards.
The growth over the last few weeks has highlighted in the growth of the vote value having moved from a value of 9.2 HIVE and now 9.54 HIVE which is worth an extra 1.7 HIVE per day growth via curation. If I am honest I thought gaining back the lost ground created by the hard fork late last year it would take the remainder of this year to achieve.
With some decent power ups over the last 4 months has helped speed the growth and recovery of the vote value which has proved this does work. The 10 HIVE vote value is now firmly in the sights and will be trying to unlock this as soon as possible. Being able to earn 50 HIVE and hand out 50 HIVE daily via curation is kind of crazy yet also represents 98 months of accumulation and growth.
