This community used to be the Earn, Spend, Give community. Unfortunately most of the people in the crew were from a country a world apart from my own. My limited expertise in saving money and getting good deals were useless there. My thoughts on earning extra money wouldn't work there. I enjoyed learning from the crew but in the end it was a lot of work trying to keep things going both for myself and the community at large.
I still believe in the idea of earn, spend, give.... although I will be adding the idea of onboarding as well. However, instead of asking for people to write articles and do missions I'll be changing that up.
My first 5 dragons have been created.
Today I'd like to talk about my delegator dragons.
Now for those people who are Hive veterans you will know that delegating HP to curator accounts is a good way to earn passive rewards on HIVE. However, if I was to ask you what the best paying curator accounts would be I bet you would have a harder time answering the question.
Well, my delegator dragons are my attempt to make that information easy to figure out, fun to learn from and hopefully give different communities a mascot dragon to cheer on. As this is very much the alpha stage exact details are a little tough to come by but here is my first concrete step forward.
No wwhen I get back home I'll create a baby dragon for each of those accounts. Every penny those dragons gets in delegation rewards will be spent to buy GLD tokens. Dragons power up with GLD tokens and fight each other.
As each week passes by I'll keep track of how much return I've got from each curation account. I'll let the dragons battle each other and in the end we will see which curator account is the most POWERFUL. However, a community is more than its rewards. Before every battle hive members can cheer on their favorite dragon. The dragon that gets the most GLD from curator accounts and the most cheers from community members will become the strongest over time.
How will the exact mechanics work? I have ideas but nothing is completed on the dragon battling mechanics yet.
There are a lot more great projects out there that deserve to be highlighted over time and I'm hoping to make more dragons so support other projects. Any feedback I can get on which projects to back would be appreciated. There are the obvious ones like 
As I've mentioned
Delegation is a great way to earn passive income. However, curation may be even better and curation trails may be even more rewarding...or not. I'll be making curator dragons and pitting them against the delegator dragons to see who comes up as the #1 contender.
Of course actually posting and being active in communities can be a huge source of income. Personally I use Actifit and Hive Learners and I'll be making dragons to mimic my earnings on those accounts (plus what I earn from OCDB). These dragons won't fight each other but instead they will fight :
COLDragons of "Cost of Living" Dragons. The idea is to see if these "work" dragons can ever actually defeat real world expenses represented by the COLDragons.
I'm going to try to find a way to make onboarding easier for Web2 users. The idea being to have android apps which will interact with these dragons so there will be a "nanny" dragon to act as an intermediary between Web2 and Web3, hopefully getting people invested before they get onboarded.
I'm hoping to make some real world investments and funnel their dividends and profits into the HIVE system. Then show their strength with GLD tokens in Dragons and have these dragons again fight with other types of EARN dragons.
Again, these are all very early stages but I wanted to keep everyone in the loop and hopefully when the time comes you can cheer for your favorite dragons, learn about investing, and maybe profit from writing an article or two in the community.
Until then,
Thanks for being curious.
Side note: If any GLD holders don't want updates let me know and I'll take you off the list.
