The winner of the March 2025 HBI contest is @olaf.gui!!!! They won the entire pot, 23 HBI. Contest Rules Update The April contest is likely to be smaller, but I'm going to change the rules slightly this

I made a post in my #noloafingmoney series about wanting some stability in my hive life and the way I'm going to get there is to invest in SBI units every month. As part of that I convert all my HBD at

I saw a post in the fediverse recently about someone pining for the days when they were anonymous online. They have been known as "John" online for years, their blog is at john.com, all their

Even running a contest that is easy and straightforward is too much for me right now. There is too much going on. Lift by David Seibold, on Flickr So, this is what I will do instead. If you want some SBI

So I have been giving it a lot of thought, and this is what I have come up with. Mining in Mongolia by ILO Asia-Pacific, on Flickr I want to see if #hive can give someone the opportunity to spend no more

I spend a lot of time stalking other people's wallets. The things that I am looking for is what are they doing with their tokens. Stalking by Marc Cooper, on Flickr Save, or no The first thing that I'm

Yesterday I was wondering how many SBI units I would need to maintain a 5HBD vote value, and I think I found the answer, at least directional-ally ( I think that's a word). Directions by Diego Pianarosa

In about a week I will be starting the November SBI contest. The prize will be whatever is in my Hive balance on Nov 7, 2023. The vast majority will be the conversion of HBD to hive. I will not be powering

Earlier this month I started to post a bit more and tested out #sbi again to make sure that it was still working, it is. Then I ran a contest to spread some of those sweet sbi around. A Watched Pot by

For second place, so I'm changing the rewards a bit. My first thought was to split the second and third pace between the ties, but that seems like a cop out. So I'm transferring some HBD to HIVE and all

So I decided to check and see if my strategy for hive finances still made sense. I don't think they do Why I think this Well for one I have withdrawn from SBI, I found that the community was stagnant and

This month there was on ONE entry into the contest and that was @mytechtrail so they get all the SBI. Congrats @mytechtrail! I will run the contest once more, but if there isn't a lot of interest I will

I made a post in my #noloafingmoney series about wanting some stability in my hive life and the way I'm going to get there is to invest in SBI units every month. As part of that I convert all my HBD at

I took a look at my author vs curation rewards on HiveStats and noticed that I'm getting a lot more for posts. So I'm going to run a little test, delegate 500 HP to @steembasicincome and see how my growth

Just over 7 days ago I announced a new contest and @madstacks is the big winner with 5 votes. There was a 2 way tie for second so I assigned @mawit07 heads and @pocketrocket tails and headed over to random.org

I made a post in my #noloafingmoney series about wanting some stability in my hive life and the way I'm going to get there is to invest in SBI units every month. As part of that I convert all my HBD at

Work on the various projects that I have on the go is slow but there has been some progress. This week I would like to make some updates to the Handling the hive post that I made in August. What's Changed

With the very hot market these days I'm back to handling the hive like I suggested in August, but until I start getting more and more HBD there will only be first and second prizes similar to what I did

I had a call with a recruiter today, and when I was done I mentioned it to my partner. They immediately asked why I took the call and what I was looking for. I was intrigued by the amount of base salary

Finally I think #covid19 is under control, more vaccines are coming online and the existing vaccine production is continuing to scale. By the end of the year I'm expecting that herd immunity will start