A few month in to the blockchain adventure. With next to no success, (except at the poker tables). Struggles for growth, seemed an endless endeavour and often pointless. The reward for effort ratio. Well non existent.

Many reasons account for that. Mostly, an unknown account. Totally new to the whole environment outside of the poker I got a bit of knowledge and a need to power up. Various little things that made life easier.

Just been around. Taking advantages of opportunity, when it presented. (Providing the resource's to do so was available). Most of the time Account size was too small to take advantage of anything else.

History.

First ambition was to reach a 0.02c USD reward on a post. Not an easy task when unknown. This took a couple month to do. A bit of scheming to try get a leg up.

Second came, give a reward of 0.02c. This was even more evasive then the 0.02 to a post. I had compensated in part by gaining 15 other people to sign up and collect a 15 Power delegation. This only accounted for a 0.01c vote though.
As I reached the level for a 0.02 vote. the value of HIVE was dropping. and the 0.02 vote given evaded me for months more.

That same thing repeats itself over and over. Just as I think I am about to reach a target. Be able to start something. BAM! Something gets in the way.
Although it is nice, the rise in the value of HIVE. It comes at the wrong bloody time for me.

That's life though. There are curve balls thrown at us all the time. Sometimes even when we are not looking. Now and then though you do hit one of those out of the ball park too. BOOM! you made some progress.

That's basically my journey of repetition over the past four years. It's within grasp and then it is not. I expect this to continue over the next few years too.

Where we are now is the combination of efforts and support from many across all the years. Too many to mention for fear of omission.

Where we are now.

Twenty three - twenty four thousand is a good estimate of our voting power across all accounts.

Witness vote 18,812,236.20 vests.

Proxied witness vote 11,176,524.86 vests.

Four accounts in progress with function.

TheHive
The first account is @thehive This would be the primary account that tries to subsidise other projects started.

Showing a steady generic growth over the past couple of month.

Six thousand HP is delegated out to projects and others from this account.

Silver Quest

@silverquest supplies the ticket post and results for the Euro Millions Lottery.

A ticket is purchased for the 2 draws each week. One draw on Tuesday and another on Friday. The ticket purchased may cover more than one draw.

We are also looking at the possibility of increasing the amount of lines we have each draw for the Euro Millions. Or adding an addition ticket for an alternative lotto.

@silverquest also operates others tasks in the background and also offers STARPRO at a discount price if HKLBRE is used in the purchase.

Huckleberrie

@huckleberrie is the latest project to start.
From my side, Huckleberrie is a focus. From your side, you will see it as a faucet. Leaking out HKLBRE Which you can turn to HIVE.

Rules are simple. Send 1 HIVE or multiple of to @huckleberrie through the Hive wallet for a first purchase. You sill be sent 1 HKLBRE. List the HKLBRE at 1.05 HIVE and wait for it to be bought. After your first purchase of HKLBRE use of available exchanges is good.

The Huckleberrie account. Used for the release of tokens, will be a focal point for the near future as development of the project gets underway.

Card Trader.
@cardtrader Is a silent account to the most part. Future publications from this account are planned. The account name Card Trader. We would like to trade cards with it.

The investment amount to begin a project like this can be very expensive. We are trying to get started cheaper. Cheaper also means longer.

Like other projects the beginning of this project is subsidised by @thehive.

Currently we power down 10 HIVE each week and used that for the purchase of @risingstargame playing cards.

A Hive account is needed to play and you can play for free at no cost ever. You will also need to download the Hive-Keychain app. This is only needed to enter games and exchanges.

We levelled out at 240 HP the amount on power down was equal to the amount we were growing. To keep going like that we would need delegation for a very long time. So we changed things to increase the growth. Increased subsidy.

We ultimately want to release the HIVE delegated back to its owners. At that time, they should have a small passive that pays from time to time.

The 10 HIVE powered down each week now will be used to support HKLBRE. This will not have any impact on the account growth. 100K Starbits will be put toward the project at each power down time. This will be used to purchase packs.

Should a time come the 10 HIVE exceeds the value of 100K Starbits. The 10 HIVE will be used for the purchase of Starbits to gain more cards.