Hive’s Newest Dolphin 🐬

Well, well, well. Say hello to the newest Dolphin on Hive. I set out a target of 5k HP by the end of July and, even though I missed the original target date, I’ve finally hit it today. While sipping on my cup of coffee and looking through some Hive posts, Peakd alerted me that I had some unclaimed rewards. “Ohh, I wonder if it’s enough to push me over the 5k mark”, I thought to myself. I had about 5HP to go, and looking at the rewards, at the current HBD/Hive exchange rate in the market, it was just enough to do the job. As such, I quickly did the trade in the internal market and powered up. So, ladies and gents, I’m now a Hive Dolphin after nearly two years of blogging :)

“But hold up Ade, you’ve been here longer than two years. Also, weren’t you an Orca at some point?”

Ah, yes. You’ve been paying attention. Indeed. I’ve been a big guy on here at some point. I reached my peak just as the hostile takeover happened on Steem. I must have had nearly 150K steem at the time. I was also lucky to have powered down most of it by the time we forked, so I had a huge chunk of liquid which I was able to sell in in the market. I didn’t actually profit much from it, since most of it I purchased with my own fiat in the first place. I really believed in the old blockchain before it all went to shit. Sadly, I also had to help pay some huge medical expenses for a family member which took most of the money.

Anyway, that’s all water under the bridge now. I decided to take a different approach to Hive than I did with Steem. Instead of buying back in with fiat, I decided to be a creator and build like many have on this platform. From scratch. So, one blog after another, showing up regularly and enjoying the process, for two years or so, I’ve finally become a Hive dolphin! 🐬

Hopefully this is encouraging to anyone that’s just starting their journey on Hive. Sure, there are some people that get massive support from big accounts no matter what they post, but if you look at my posts, I get moderate support that is possible to achieve for nearly anyone. I’ve been on the platform for a long time, so I’ve made some connections, of course, but I think anyone can get to the same level by interacting in the right communities.

I’ve also completely stayed away from drama. There can be a lot of that on here and I was in it deep on the old platform. I even enraged the largest whale on here, and it was quite the eventful time :)

Many thanks to all the people who have supported me over the last few years; constantly interacting and upvoting. I’ve also been inspired by certain people on here who are so consistent and diligent with their posts. I won’t list the names because I’ll probably forget some of them :)

This is to bigger and great things on Hive. Next target, 10k. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another two years haha. But if it does, it’s ok. I’m having fun.

Peace & Love,

Adé