Ok so once again this month I am getting this out a little late but still earlier than the previous month the reason is I have been busy working mostly at the job in the hopes of getting the required money needed to attend Steemfest3 which is happening....yikes next month!

I feel this month I am not as excited to do the report as I'am almost certain I will see about half of the results as the SBD printing rate as been now kicked back up a few notches.

But anyway so here we are now month 25, how are you getting on with your own personal Steemit goals?

I mean look it wont be too long before the year of 2018 is gone, so argh time to hurry.

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So this now marks my 2 years on Steemit.com along with one month since the 2nd Steemit.com birthday I of course have no plans on quitting any time soon.

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Wow so much as happened since I first joined Steemit.com I remember in November "and will never forget" the amazing experience that was Steemfest 2 ( thanks to @roelandp for putting this together)
In December I went to a Steemit supper club hosted by @allasyummyfood unfortunately I couldn't attend the other supper club's or I would risk not having enough "days holiday" left from work so that "if possible" I can attend the Steemfest3 event.

February I had the opportunity to attend a Steemit meeting in London hosted by @redrica, @ultravioletmag and @teodora it was definitely one of the best meetings so far, the music was loud at times but that didn't stop us getting to know each other (but many of us did lose our voice's the following day lol)
In April I was at the London Cryptocurrency show which had around 50 Steemians attending, and there was also some great speakers representing Steem in the UK.

Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to go to Cyprus nor some of the other many Steem events as this was down to not being able to get the time off work and the required funds.

This year 2018 from day one Steem and SBD had been erupting and going record breaking crazy, this was a huge shock to many experts and newbies alike it was one amazing start to the year, the price then settled abit but still in-between its "settled highs" we saw Steem at around the $3 mark.
While Steem as been lower since then and now even hitting below the dollar mark in the recent price drops which as indeed shocked many who were not expecting to see it go this low ever again but on the other hand its giving those interested a great opportunity to buy into what the whales where previously holding and so I say its the time for opportunity not gloom.

Moving Forward With New Hope And Opportunity!

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At The London Cryptocurrency Show

Its now October 2018 and I still had so much to write about from the things that took place back at Steemfest2 and I honestly thought I was one of the only people that felt that way but I have heard from other Steemians they also felt the same way.
I dont think that content will ever see the light of day as I didn't get the time needed as I also got a back-log of stuff I wanted to write about so I can clear out my emails, but seeing that Steemfest3 is around the corner I dont see it happening but any remaining "not seen" pictures will get released.

Anyway doing these monthly reports help me stay in check, plus I have heard from you guys that the data can be useful to some newbies in getting a better idea on what to expect with the Steemit.com platform.

But before going into month 25's results "This" especially for the newbies can be helpful, let me show you a very quick recap of my first "2" Steemit.com years.

Month 1 📅

Month 11-12 📅

And there you have it 12 months of Steeming earned me....

2.784 Power

727 Followers

And a reputation of 64.1

Year 2 📅

Yes I realise these aren't the most amazing results you were probably expecting but for someone who didn't bring in a previous fan base or aided by any of the whale's or part of any inner circle I guess these aren't bad results.
They definitely aren't the best results, but they also aren't anywhere near the worst on here.

Ok so now you have seen the results of 2 full years on Steemit.com and what you can realistically expect from someone in my situation, we now move on and focus on this month's results.

📅 Month 25 - 20/10/2018 the results are..

Ok so this month I expected to have gained less SP due to the SBD rates kicking off but while that is true I still had some time where SBD's where no being printed so earning me still mostly the SP.

Not only that but because of the hardfork-20 there is extra Steem available and without doubt that as helped "even" out the SP results, and so I have to say that with these results I am happy.

If the extra SP continues it will be interesting for next month's results.

And so as someone who is committed to Steemit for the long term I am very happy with the lower Steem price right now as it should help in future to even-out the distribution of Steem.

But "followers" yikes.. when it comes to followers what a difference! I had gained 40 the previous month and this time around 9 lol glad its not something I am working on at the moment.
On the other hand when it comes to reputation its great to have finally reached 66-rep yay!

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Other STATS 📊

Apparently when I last checked there are now around 1.157.850 Steemit.com users and so out of all those users last time I checked my rankings of "steem power only", I am around #2772 which for me I am very happy with, its not the highest I have managed my best result was #2225 I hope to one day take that spot again, but since the previous month I was surprised in a way to have gone downwards and so very happy that this month as I have gone up again.

Most Steemit gains score? 👊

I had a post that made me just over $50 the first month I signed on, and that's when I saw it! The Steemit.com potential!
But would you believe I never beat that reward record for a whole year! Yes that's right meaning it was only on month 13 that I finally beat my score from all the way back in month 1, how insane is that!?
While its sounds insane you must remember that the price of Steem on month 1 for me was over $4.00 !! Which was beaten this year 2018 January at over $7.00! Anyway my new high score to beat is $94.00 which was from month 13.

Steem Power 👊

My most successful Steem Power post was actually back in month 7 when I had one post make me 271 power!

My highest post so far on votes? 👨

The most amount of votes I managed on a single post so far was 213, but that post only made me $8.60

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Followers 👨👨👨👨

I found another dead followers tool but it also seems to have its issues sometimes.
And once again when I tried to use it for this post its down again, not sure why having such a tool seems to be so difficult, anyway so this is now the 3rd tool and it says that around 1175 of you are apparently still active the last time I checked, so if you are out there please dont forget to give me a upvote and let me know you are still alive in the comments below, you guys are all missing out on upvotes from myself, I mean you just never know I might just check out your blog and upvote you back.

I am also now aiming to gain the "2500 followers badge" which requires me to gain 500 new followers, this will be the hardest followers challenge so far and dam was we close this month.

Anyway to my active but also supportive followers I want to thank you all for your support so far, as of course remember the more power you vote by on my posts the more I can give back to the community when I vote you back, check out the wizards badge for my curation level below, also your upvoted Steem power gets locked when you vote as I have also not powered down and of course this is helping the price of Steem rise up.

I also want to thank you guys for helping me get to SteemFest2 last year, I still owe abit of money back for the trip but I will get there, my next target is getting all the costs paid for hopefully attending this years Steemfest3.

Any Other notes?

Yes Lastly

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Please dont think your votes aren't worth anything or don't count because they really really do.

Another thing I will add is please vote more on those who are actually active on Steemit.com, who have 1000 and under 4500-SP and out of those try and vote on the users who are not powering down alot.
Basically the more people we have over 4500 power the more people could earn in the future as there are too many in power who just vote for their inner circle or who are not active.

The downfall is the powerful circle jerking when it comes to votes and not enough whales are voting on the minnows and dolphins, creating a predictable rewards distribution.
This could be fixed probably with oracles but it could also make earning more competitive and difficult for those who do not have a huge active following to bring onto Steemit, this could indeed be worrying meaning you will probably earn less then you do now but its something we will have to wait and see with SMT's.

Also no more do we have many active whales voting this is because they are trying to use less time consuming ways of using their SP, making Steemit.com a more developers support type of a website.
This could change with SMT's but honestly I still hope people will create content on Steemit in the future and get paid for it, hopefully earning something more then a few cents for their efforts.
Btw I am also not having a dig at the whales I am saying we need more people who are actually active and curating and who have some decent power behind them, so vote now and help me make this happen.

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