Heya Quackers;
I've decided to take a bit of a different approach; over the last few days I came to realise that in 2023, I want more time. The only way for me to do that is to step back from being on Hive - so I'm using this slump in the price of hive to basically dump everything and sell-out. Over the past few days, I nearly got down to nothing left in terms of my splinterlands cards. In fact, I had 3 cards total - but I just sent you one of my favourites! The Silvershield Assassin! I can't believe you play WILD but don't own it. A double strike with poison - come on, it'll be your new favourite go-to card ;) (Or if you hate it, it's a $30 price tag at the moment, but I had it up for a few days and it didn't sell).

The timing of the Hive-quitting is going to coincide with my holidays - they start today and run until end of January. I really don't want to spend so much time on my screen - and I rather think that will end well for me. From just about every room in our house you can see the ocean, as far as alternates go, perhaps I'll be at the beach! I also read in the paper the other day questions about Binance's long term prospects - and I thought, 'Shit, just what the crypto space needs'. This was timed with the introduction of Runi's into Splinterlands - which were basically unbeatable, throw in the land project and the new rebellion set coming out - I guess I thought to myself: do I play and keep paying and paying and paying, or do I get out before I find myself in that giant sink-hole, continually chasing better decks etc.

Speaking of that house, I'm just using all my hive assets to dump on the mortgage. It has been creating a decent dint. We have a fixed rate that will expire to, then our interest rate jumps up to 4.7% (assuming it don't go any higher) and we still owe $550,000 on the place. In total, I think my cash out will be about 1% or a bit over it, of that figure - which, let's be honest, ain't too bad a sum to knock off. In that sense, I guess Hive has worked out for me (I havn't wanted to look how much I spent on Splinterlands, only to have card values fall. Perhaps the blogging side of it at least made me do a little better than break even).

But otherwise quackers, will leave it there. I have a 4 week unstaking of sps and gls, and another 3 weeks of unstaking on my main hive pile. Then the next annoying bit - will have about 1000 hive that I'll need to go through the full 13 week unstaking process with. To that end, I'll be around to cash out, but not really here for much else.

Take care, good luck with that debt pile of yours - I hope that Hive goes to the moon for you.