With over 30 months of Steeming we now go onward into month 33 I have no plans or want to be quitting anytime soon.

This month there will no doubt be a late monthly post as I was visiting my father on the day of release and will get this out as soon as I get a little settled back home but to be honest it was not so much that which cause a longer delay than I expected but that in my return to work I given some extra work which needed to be done by the week, I was seriously not happy about this but expected it.

I want to mention that I know there is a lack of posts coming from myself but before you think I have given-up on Steemit or got bored/lazy that's actually very far from the truth.
I'am actually spending alot more time instead behind the scenes being more active with communities on the Steem Blockchain which infact rewards me for my efforts so don't worry about this ship and "our growth" it still very much continues sailing in the upward direction I hope you can see that as we have not long ago reached dolphin.

My hope is that this is a better way for at the moment to continue our growth especially with these lower Steem prices and the almost non-existent whale votes plus the low curation reward.
This is still a slow growth but unfortunately seems to be a safer option to keep growing at the moment, the continued future goal of giving back more is on but none of this can be done without your support by first helping us grow.

This month I still feel we have still done relatively well considering the low prices and some of the problems I had to deal with this month like getting robbed plus I spent some time visiting my father, meaning I have indeed missed out on a few days so it wont surprise me if the result were slightly lower this time round but I believe I still was on top of it all so we shall see.

I hope you will play along with me on here you should have in mind some kind of goal for this year, hopefully a Steem related goal, even if it's something small that u'd like to achieve on the blockchain as it helps you stay focused.

If you didn't know yet, my big Steemit.com goal for the year was to reach dolphin.
Well that was achieved in month 30 which I was very happy about as it was a goal I had from a very early stage's since I started here on Steemit.com.

While I still have some payment related goals I would like to achieve this year, other users have said that I should set sail to becoming a Orca but I feel that is too much of a far-fetched goal for me right now.

But I did set myself on becoming a double dolphin which is indeed also a large goal, that was then I have changed my mind again, instead we are going to change course...instead I will now be aiming for the next dolphin badge, which requires 7500 SP, and I hope you will join me on this journey onward into the crypto future of things.

7500 SP

WE CAN DO THIS! And I appreciate all of you who have helped us get this far.

And so... our course as been set! Now let's GO!
Gods-speed.

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Over 2 years on Steemit.com the price as been low for months but I of course have no plans on quitting any time soon.

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So much as happened since I first joined Steemit.com I remember back in November 2017 "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 but in February I got invited to attend a Steemit meeting in London hosted by @redrica, @ultravioletmag and @teodora it was definitely one of the best meetings I went to, 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.

I didn't get the chance to go to Cyprus, Vegas, Indonesian, Korea nor many the other big Steembased events as this was down to not being able to get either the time off work or because of the required funds for such things mostly the later.

I did manage to attend Steemfest3 which seemed to attract alot more developers then content creators or bloggers some of the ones who did attend did mention the atmosphere being different this time around.
And with all this I managed to get enough SP to finally reach Dolphin in 2019 on March 22th.

Also back in 2018 from day one Steem and SBD's were 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 high's" we saw Steem at around the $3 mark.
Steem as been much lower these days due the Bitcoin fall, it took Steem down a path of survival with Steem INC even being forced to lose %70 of its staff and the site itself was in danger of closure, but I'm happy to report that we are of course no longer in such a survival mode.

The recent price drops have indeed shocked many who were not expecting to see Steem nor Bitcoin go this low ever again but on the other hand its giving those interested in Steem a great opportunity to buy into what the whales were 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

It maybe 2019 but I still had so much to write about from the things that took place back at the Steemfest events and some of the other Steemian gathering's.
For me I didn't get the time needed as I also got a back-log of content I wanted to write about and not only that but I also have the job to deal with which often get's in the way of Steem related things.
But I think now the even bigger problem is how many mid level accounts just don't get much support for their content regardless of how good their content is and when I say mid level accounts I'am talking about minnow's who no longer qualify for curation support.

It's all a shame really as we need more stronger mid level accounts to help support each other as many of these accounts regardless of what you have been told also struggle to grow.

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

But before going into month 33 and its results "This" especially for the newbies can be helpful, let me show you a very quick recap of my 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 that you were probably expecting, but for someone who didn't bring in a previous fan base or was aided by any of the whale's nor 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.

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

📅 Month 33 - 17/5/2019 the results are..

Ok so last month I thought we might just be lucky and actually do slightly better, but we didn't instead this month somehow we managed to do better not sure how that happened except maybe the price of Steem had something to do with it, we previously managed an extra 188 SP and I honestly expected lower even at around 150 SP maybe even less considering everything that happened but in the end this month we managed 197 SP, gosh so close to 200 SP.
Well I have to say not sure how but very happy with the turnout as it could of been much worse.

When in comes to follower's please remember there was a error, it showed I had a total of 2600 followers 5 months ago.
It should of been 2560 followers, the five must of gone missing lol.
So I didn't suddenly lose alot of people instead we gained another 9 that month and this time we added another 7.
Which seems more like the norm as on a previous month we somehow got 10 and I was surprised as it had been a good while since I have been in the 2-digit gaining range for followers lol.

For reputation, its great to be getting slowly closer to the mighty 70 but still a very long road-up ahead. But being at 66 rep is really good well except it got better this month we finally managed 67 rep and it's so strange as for 2 months we have managed to go up 2 notches instead of the usual 1, not sure how this happened but it's thanks to those of you who have voted.
I did mention 2 months ago it seemed rep was going up a little faster guess we caught up and made it 2 again, so very happy thank you.

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Other STATS 📊

Apparently there are around 1,286,000 Steemit.com users and so out of all those users the last time I checked my own ranking as a "Steem Stake Power Holder", I am around #2562 which for me I am very happy with, its not the highest I have managed, my best result was #2225 but I hope to one day reclaim that spot again.
I have gone up this month again which did surprised me and so hopefully next month it will be another raise-up, not bad the past two months I have gone up about 50 places each time and once again this month around another 50 places upwards.

Highest Steemit Earnings 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 it sounds insane you must remember that the price of Steem during month 1 for me was over $4.00 !! Which was only surpassed in January 2018 when Steem was 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 which made 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 👪👪👪👪

When it comes to followers.. sorry but the "Dead Followers" type of a tool that I used does not work anymore, I'am not sure why having such a thing seems to be so difficult I have now used 4 different tools which have all had their own problems and then eventually fully stopped working. So please if anybody knows of tool that works please let me know in the comments section below.

If you are still here and active don't forget to give me a upvote and let me know you are still alive and well in the comments section below, as you might be missing out on upvotes from myself as I might check out your blog and upvote you back.

Speaking of followers we have the "2500 followers badge" which required me to gain 500 new followers, it was the hardest followers challenge so far but now the target is set to having 3750! Wowsers! And that means I need to gain another 1250 extra followers!

I NEVER POWERED DOWN 🚀

To my active but also supportive followers I want to thank you all for your support so far, as of course remember that the more power and weight you can add for me with your upvotes the more I can give back to the community when I upvote you back, check out the wizard's badge for my curation level below, also your upvoted Steem power gets locked when you vote for me as I "NEVER" yet powered down once since I started on Steemit.com over 2 years ago!

MORE THAN 60,000 UPVOTES 👫

The locked Steem of course helps the price of Steem rise up but to also to give you a idea on how much I have voted for I have done over 63,400 upvotes!
Which puts me in the TOP 500 of users who as voted on your posts.

So what are you waiting for? Vote now and lock-up some SP for a better Steem future.

I also want to thank you guys for helping me get to SteemFest2 last year and those who supported me for Steemfest3, I still owe abit of money back for the trips but I will get there eventually.

Closing Last Notes

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Please don't 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, too often I see auto-votes on people who are rarely active, or to those who don't vote on anybody else's post or even rarely communicate's with others.

I believe we need a strong number of dolphins as there are too many in power who just vote for their own rich inner circles or who are not even actively voting, but yet I see many supporting them, if you want to support those higher then give the dolphins a helping hand as they are more likely to vote back and shape the future for a more fair share of rewards.

The downfall is the powerful circle jerking when it comes to votes, not enough whales are voting on the minnows or dolphins, creating a predictable rewards distribution.
This could be fixed probably with talks of changing the the rewards curve in future along with the use of SMT's but changing the rewards curve could also have many negative repercussions on those who are empowering themselves giving value to holding Steem.

Also realise that we no longer have that many active whales voting, this is because they are using less time consuming ways of using-up their SP, making Steemit.com a more developers support type of a website plus we had too many Steemians who sold away their SP, but no worries its a gain for those who want-in and you can trust me with your votes I have not powered down once since day 1.

Regardless of the change I still hope people will create content on Steemit.com in the future and get paid for it, hopefully earning something more than just a few cents for their efforts.
To make it clear I'm not having a dig at the whales, I'am saying we need more people who are actually active and curating who are being supported and who have some decent power behind them, so vote now and help me make this happen.

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Our Ship Is Now Dolphin Powered

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-Steem Price-
https://steemit.com/steemit/@simonjay/daily-steem-price-update-30-4-2019

-Month 30 Of Steemit Monthly Reports-
https://steemit.com/steemit/@simonjay/month-30-steemit-monthly-report-15-3-2019

-I Have Powered-Up To Dolphin!-

https://steemit.com/life/@simonjay/powered-up-to-dolphin-22-3-2019

-Young And Now Disabled By Vaccine?-

https://steemit.com/familyprotection/@simonjay/young-and-disabled-by-vaccine-7-1-2019

So if you like this page I need you guys to do me 2 easy things.

1.First please upvote this page.
2.And secondly dont forget to follow me below.

Also since votes don't always = $ and you if want to see more you can send me Steem Power Tips to @simonjay to help support me.

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