With over 30 months of Steeming behind us we now continue onward's into month 38 and gosh it was only 2 months ago were the report marked my 3rd year on Steemit.com, to which I still have no plans nor want to be quitting anytime soon.

Getting the report out

This as got crazy now.. so 5 month's ago I was late with the monthly post due to visiting my father, the time after that it was mostly due to work not giving me the opportunity with some awkward shift times, the next month my internet was cut off for 9 days, after that the same problem my net was cut, but this time only for 3 days and it was because some workmen didn't reconnected two of my lines after their so called "maintenance" plus I had longer work shifts and other commitments which make it difficult getting the report out again.

Then last month I thought I would finally break this as I had almost the whole report written and ready to sent out for the actual day but then I had a whole bunch of work and commitments that prevented me from having the time to finish and publish the report until again very late.
So again I'am trying to write this out on time, a day before it suppose to go out, so lets see how that goes lol.
I'am already getting delayed as I try to understand why suddenly I'am having issues purchasing Steem.

It may feel too soon for another report but that is because I got the last report out so darn late.

Anyway 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 eco-system which infact rewards me for my efforts.
This ship and "our growth" still very much continues sailing into the upward direction, I hope you can see that as we not so long ago reached dolphin and now cruising to the 7500k mark.

My hope is that this was a better way to continue our growth especially with these lower Steem prices.
Hopefully in the coming months you may soon see more content from me as the new Steem rewards curve could make it more worth while once again as many changes have come into effect with HardFork21/22.

Good Month?

I was not too sure of the results with the effects of HardFork21/22 as before it even hit us I honestly expected the worse results ever since starting out on Steemit. But right after the HardFork21 came into effect I felt alot more confident that it may not be that bad.
I still expected a %20 loss, but strangely what happened was the complete opposite.
It actually became our 2nd best month so far, the month after that we beat record again and so now there is a small chance that this month we may be able to beat that again but I have my doubts as I don't think we got any whale votes this time but Steem continues low which means you can earn more Steem.

Make Your Own Goals

First I hope you will all play-along with me on here, and so you should have in mind some kind of Steem related goal for the year, even if it's just something small that you would like to achieve on the blockchain as it helps you to stay focused.

If you didn't know yet, my big Steemit.com goal for the year was to reach dolphin, and 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 since joining Steemit.com.

While I still have some payment related goals that 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, but that was then..as I have changed my mind again.

Instead we are going to be aiming for just the next dolphin badge, which requires 7500 SP.
But also I hoped to reach 6000 SP this year which as happened and so I will still try to squeeze in at 7000 SP before the end of the year which as also already happened.
I initially had doubts on making it to 7000 SP but I can see 7500 SP even being possible.

Anyway I hope you will join me on this journey onward into the crypto future of things to come.

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 3 years on Steemit.com the price as been low for months, but I of course have no plans on quitting any time soon aslong as I'am not forced too by any changes.

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

But 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 it started due to 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 being in danger of closure, but now we are of course no longer in such danger.

The recent price drops have indeed shocked many who were not expecting to see Steem ever go this low again, especially with the Bitcoin's recovery going to 10k, 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's 2019 but still I 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.
These writings didn't get posted as for me I didn't get the time needed to put them out I also had a back-log of content I wanted to write about and not only that but the job often get's in the way of any Steem related things.

I felt for sometime a big problem is how many mid level accounts just don't get much support for their content.
And yes that includes those who have put out "top quality content".
And when I say "mid level accounts" I'am still talking about those who are minnow's who apparently no longer qualify for any curation support after reaching a certain level.

Shame really as we need more strong mid level accounts as this is to help support each other as many of these accounts actually still struggle to grow regardless of what you have been told about it being easy once you have "xyz" Steem power or Reputation. It's not!
But atleast there seems to be a few other's out there who support all accounts.

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 38 and its results "This" especially for the newbies can be helpful, let me show you a very quick simple recap of my 3 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 📅

Year 3 📅

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 for 3 full years on Steemit.com and what you can realistically expect from someone in my situation.
Now we move on and focus with this month's results.

📅 Month 38 - 13/11/2019 the results are..

Ok so this month I was expecting to do possibly around the same as actually seeing the real effects caused by the hardfork21/22 they were not as bad from what was initially expected which was still a %20 drop.
But the other 2 reasons I suspected we might do slightly better this month was because of the Steem price going down to $0.12 a few times because as you know the further down Steem goes the more Steem you get from people with some decent SP behind them but this month we were not blessed with any big whale votes.

If we look 4 months ago I reported one of the best months we had in a very long time, I could almost go as far to say it was a record breaker for us.
I say "almost" because if you have been following me for a good while now you will know my most successful post made me a crazy 271 Steem Power alone, making it easily one of my best months as I was able to gather a little more SP after that particular high Steem Power post.
But do remember this was back in the good old days of Steemit and so if we discount that period the gain from 4 months ago would be our 2nd best result with a total of 233 SP.
Something I want to point out is this only happened since the price of Steem as been lower which I hope proves just how great the lower price of Steem can be for building-up your account.
Anyway 3 months ago we got dangerously close to reaching the same SP gains of 233 SP with a total of 229 SP but 2 months ago instead of it being a big cut-off, which expected due to the hardfork21 it had actually been our newly crowed best 2nd month, with a gain of 241 Steem Power.
Honestly I cant believe we actually gained more during the crazy hardfork21/22 period, and not only that but on that month we also celebrated 3 years on Steemit.
So I thought that was a pretty good gain, but things got even better, and by alot, we have not only gone and beaten all records again, but instead of getting about 250 SP as I suspected, we instead gained 346 SP for last month!!
But it still didn't end there as this month we done even better we managed to get a gain of "403!!!" which I believe we wont be able to beat that any time soon.

And so thank you to everybody who as contributed to getting us this far.

It will be very interesting to see if we can make roughly the same next month, well I really don't expect to do this but around another 300 SP would be awesome.

When in comes to follower's please remember there was a error a few months ago which made it look like lots of followers were lost, but that was not the case and instead we have been slowly gathering more.
And so with no sudden big loss instead we have gained another (9) which is not as surprising as the 19 gained last month but still something good to get.

For reputation, it's great to be getting slowly closer to that mighty 70 I can definitely finally see us getting there now at some point, hopefully next year now? Still it's a long road up-ahead, plus I think since the HF21 it might of got tougher to gain rep again which I did mention I expected this to happen.
But I can't complain, it's looking better as we are managing slowly at 67 rep with another not one but 2 notch's-up for this month, if we are lucky we might get another 2 notches-up in the following report.

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Other STATS 📊

Apparently there are around 1,337,000 Steemit.com users and so out of all those users and also since the last time I checked my own ranking as a "Steem Stake Power Holder", I am around position (##2381)

Which for me I am very happy with such a nice result, it still isn't the highest I have ever managed, as so far the best position was at #2225.
But I do hope to one day reclaim that spot, seems I'am getting closer again and it's been with your support that we have managed to get up this far.
It's a good outcome as on the report now 4 months ago we went downwards, it wasn't by much something silly like 3 spaces down, but it was still slightly disappointing because on the previous 3 reports we had gone up about 50 places each time! Also on that month it was actually one of our highest for earning SP and yet we had actually gone down in the rankings.
Still the good news is this just proves my point that even with Steem going down people are buying alot and the wealth is spreading. On the plus side we managed to go up about 50 places in the previous report and now for this month we managed around 70 places upwards, which indeed surprised me.

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 on January 2018 when Steem was over $7.00! And so my new high score to beat is $94.00 which was the result of 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 this was not aided by any bots nor did I buy any upvotes, but still in the end 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 like 4 different tools which have all had their own problems and eventually fully stopped working argh! So please if anybody knows of tool that works 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 in the comments section below, as you might be missing out on upvotes from myself because I might just 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!

3 YEARS 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 have "NEVER" powered down once since I started here on Steemit.com over 3 years ago!

MORE THAN 70,000 UPVOTES 👫

The locked Steem of course helps the price of Steem rise up but to also give you an idea on how much I have voted over the years I have done over 71,100 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, well that is if Steem ever turns around.

Closing Last Notes

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Please don't think your up-votes aren't worth anything or don't count because they really really do, with Hardfork21 there was fear that they might became completely useless but it still continues to add value to your reputation.

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 or they are always powering down, yet many are feeding these accounts....why?..seriously.

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 with more SP then give the dolphin's a helping hand as they are more likely to vote back and will shape the future for a more fair share of the rewards.

Not enough whales are voting on the minnows or dolphins, creating a predictable rewards distribution, realise that we no longer have as many active whales voting.
But the past sold SP doesn't worry me and it does seem in the end Hardfork21/22 is dealing with such problems, but perhaps now those who some are calling the "Steem Nazi's" are taking this a little too far? Maybe the SMT's which are coming out soon will be a better solution.

Still the low price is a nice gain for those who want-in and those vote's you can trust me with, I have not powered down once since day 1.

Regardless of the change's coming into the future I still hope some people will create content on Steemit.com 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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-Steem Price-
https://steemit.com/steemit/@simonjay/daily-steem-price-update-30-9-2019

-Month 30 Of Steemit Monthly Reports-
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-I Have Powered-Up To Dolphin!-

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

-Young And Now Disabled By Vaccine?-

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