Greetings Feelines and Hoomans of Greater Hivelandia and Outlying Areas! Hope this Monday finds everyone healthy and happy... Bitcoin is back over $40,000! Well, at least it was, for a little bit...

I realize I might catch some negative feedback for even thinking this, but lately I've been contemplating this idea that many people in Hivelandia (including within individual communities like ProofOfBrain, LeoFinance, etc.) seem very attached to the idea that:

In order to be supportive of the community, you must be Powering Up… ALL. THE. TIME.

But is this always the most beneficial thing to do? Moreover, is it always the ”right” thing for every person to be doing all the time?

Personally speaking, I have never actually powered down...

However, I have done a variety of things with the 50% of my rewards that are paid in liquid form. What I want to point out is it even though I may not have powered up that 50% directly, I've often used it to invest in various projects that are still related to Hive.

For example, I've sold some of my liquid Hive/LEO/POB from time to time in order to invest in projects like UTOPIS, LBI, BRO and so on. Technically speaking, that does mean ”not powering up” but I'm still investing in the greater Hive infrastructure!

I also sold some of my liquid earnings in order to support the CUB DeFi project. Although that is not directly part of the Hive infrastructure it is still an outgrowth of it.

But What About Buying Cat Food?

Occasionally, I have taken out some liquid rewards (typically some fairly trivial amounts) because we simply needed the cash for something.

Should I feel like a "traiterous wretch" for doing so? I think not!

The point I want to make here though, is that some of us aren't in a financial position where we can just power up everything, all the time... but that doesn't necessarily mean that we (A) don't feel supportive of the community and (B) don't intend to be in it for the long haul.

Long Term Planning...

In fact, I'm starting to formulate ideas and projections about where I hope to be with this account in five years from now! For the moment, my goal is to reach 2,000HP (not far now!) but my goal is to reach 10,000HP by the end of 2025.

With that sort of plan, the fact that I am not powering up every last fraction of a Hive does NOT mean I don't support the community!

The way I see it, opportunities come and go. And whereas I am fully behind supporting a project in an ”overall” sort of sense, I don't think that precludes making the most of various opportunities when they do show up.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great remainder of your day!

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Love Cats? Get Involved in Hive's Cat Communties!

If you're a cat lover and often/sometimes post pictures or other content that includes your feline friends, why not become an active part of Hive's growing Cat Communities?

These are some of the more active Cat Communities — why not join them ALL? Remember, you can also "cross-post" your cat posts to them!

HiveCats by @curatorcat is a central "gathering place" for cat content on Hive; promoting the use of the #hivecats tag for feline content!

Cat Snaps by @manorvillemike is a place to post pictures of your cats when you don't have a whole lot to say beyond just sharing your cute photos!

Caturday Community by @saboin is a community where we get to celebrate posts relating to Saturday — aka "Caturday" — our own special day!

Cat Photos by @andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS! It has a lot of subscribers but is not very active.

Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community; it's there, but not very active.

Last, but certainly not least, a special shoutout to the recently formed Hive Pets Community which has become quite active and has quite a bit of cat content!

There are a number of other feline communities listed on Hive, but I am not sharing them for now as they have not had any activity (by their Admins OR users) since the Steem/Hive fork. Updates as they become available!

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