If anyone happens to notice that I started my power down, and haven't posted for around a week, they might just think that I've decided to leave.
Nope.
I just am tired of not being able to trade with my Hive holdings.
I really want to be able to grow my upvote on here. That means I need to increase my holdings.
Posting a lot is one way to do that, and I have a few posts planned in the near future, but another way is to trade. After a few of the shooting stars in Hive recently, I'm just really tired of not being able to trade with the largest amount of Hive, and crypto, that I have.
I actually made around $100 in one of the recent spikes in Hive, and I wasn't even that heavily invested at the time.
It just makes more sense for me to be able to trade with the crypto I have, and be able to reward content more down the line. I'm not rich. I have more holdings in crypto than I do in USD right now. I don't have the money to throw at my trading account to get more to trade with. So instead I have to move my crypto around to have more to trade with.
With trading I always feel like I need just a little bit more money to trade with. Even as little as $20 sometimes. But money's always tight, and it's a hassle to move money into crypto, with everyone taking a cut, so I rarely move USD in, except when I can buy $100 or $200 without worrying about future bills.
When you're constantly strapped for cash, it's a never ending cycle of worrying about future bills, and your money gets worn down by small purchases.
It's a wonder I've managed to build up a crypto trading account at all. In large part it's thanks to Hive, and before that, Steem. Before the crash I was planning on buying a new computer with some of it, and a camera. I haven't even withdrawn any money from crypto for years now thanks to that crash. Just building up my holdings. Constantly building up my holdings. Like Smaug and his horde, but less shiney and less fire, and no nasty fat hobitses to steal my precious.
I have this fear of judgement for powering down some of my holdings, but I'm not going to keep from doing something I'm moderately good at to grow my holdings because of some peer pressure to grow my account, when it's already pretty huge.
A thousand dollar account on a social media account really should be considered a massive investment, which it is, in my time, and effort. Yet it's tiny compared to many others. Guess I should have kept blogging.
Oh well.
So that's what I'm doing. Powering down today for more holdings tomorrow.
I won't hodl, but I will trade like a mad man so I can have more to hold tomorrow.