Putting Things Into Perspective

The other day I mentioned how earnings on the Hive blockchain have changed and if you are just looking at your Hive account things are somewhat cock eyed now. Looking at Hive stats it doesn't give the full picture and somehow wish we had this type of data for the tribe tokens as well. Maybe just the top 2 or 3 if possible or even just Leo would be a good place to start. Imagine having a graph for Leo on your stats like there is for Hive.

Tracking the growth is always something I have done from day one as it is a way of pushing yourself which is a powerful driving tool. I like to compare it to someone who is losing weight using a bathroom scale. Once you see the pounds disappearing you push yourself even more as it can become slightly obsessive, but fun at the same time. Trust me I know as I have been caught up in that until I broke the scale by jumping on it.

Over the last week the graph shows roughly 500 Hive but behind the scenes there is another 300 or possibly 400 Hive at least worth of secondary tokens or close to it. This I believe may grow even more over time and the difference between the secondary token and Hive (depending on tribe) may be way off. There has been talk of Leo reaching $ Dollar values and we (many of us) believe Hive will recover and also have a dollar sign in front of it at some point. The gap in value could be large though if some peoples predictions are even a fraction of what they are thinking comes to reality.

Tribes who want to follow Leo's growth need to make changes and today I saw a post from @sportstalk asking for feedback to change their voting curve to the same as Leo's. This is big for many of us as manually curating most of my votes I am sacrificing in the region of 50 000 sports per day which is roughly 10 Hive. I see this as a positive step in the right direction that will benefit the community in the long run. Posts will be curated for what they are worth and not voted on by how much you can make back.

In time possibly Hive will follow suit with the linear curation but don't think it will be that easy. Many investors delegate to curation groups for a return and now you would only make back rewards on your stake value. Chasing away high staked whales is not the answer and a compromise has to be met somewhere but believe that is still a way off. Some are in favor of trying it and believe it will work but we need a much bigger community than what we have right now for it to succeed.

I have always looked on this place as not something for now as it is going to take time and a perfect type of passive income for topping up a pension in the distant future. I am not as young as the majority of users on here so ten years would be a good target to achieve that.