50k vested / I still ❤️Steem
I had originally planned to write up some thoughts on the soft-fork, but everything I had to say has been voiced and so this one is more about some more personal Steem news that took place today.
Although not really a matter to joke about, I feel an opportunity has been missed to write about the happenings that brought about the soft-fork, something along the lines of......
Hey Ned, it's me Justin, we met at the club last week....
Oh hi Justin, how's things?
Well, I was thinking about what you were saying about Steemy, and its highly decentralized nature...
It's Steem - the blockchain, STEEM, the currency, and Steemit Inc, the company I own. No 'Steemy', save that for the club, but carry on..
I like Steemy, and I'd like to by your company, including all the stake you mined.
You wan't the mined stake? They won't let you use it and threatened to freeze it while I was powering some down last year - what do you want to do this for? I mean, I'll happily sell, i'm bored of Steem and have some other plans for world domination.
tumbleweed
Well Ned, what I'm going to do is test the network. I'm going to put out some news regarding shipping Steem to Tron, I'm going to vote some witnesses in on Tron with my majority stake, and just generally do some shit that will see what these Steem witnesses are all about.
Then I will truly know if this chain is solid, and one I can invest into.
Well crazy horse, that's a brave approach, good luck, 10 mill?
Done.
Yeah so that probably didn't happen... just a thought :)
Anyway, onto the main business of this post. Guess who just bought some more STEEM to reach 50,000 vested earlier this evening?
Brave, stupid, or buying when others are fearful at the beginning of a bull market? We shall see.
There are so many ways to gamify Steem, even in a bear market. Like this one ....
It's called drain your RCs by claiming accounts and see how low you can go. Myself and Taraz have been taking part for a while now, and this is the top score so far.
During the past couple of years I've degated SP to quite a lot of accounts, and all but a couple (curangel, misterengagement) have been without direct financial reward.
adollaraday, amariespeaks, arteem, asapers, barge, bashadow, beerlover, beeyou, binkyprod, blazing, brittandjosie, buckaroo, c-cubed, chireerocks, cicisaja, coinsandchains, comedyopenmic, creyestxsa94, cryptkeeper17, crypto-econom1st, c-squared, curangel, curie, davemccoy, delega, downthehabithole, drugwars-dealer, dustbunny, dustsweeper, enjar, eveningart, foxyspirit, friendsofgondor, fullcoverbetting, gillianpearce, glenalbrethsen, halcyondaze, headchange, helpie, ivoted, janton, johndoer123, leeart, lpessin, lynncoyle1, markangeltrueman, maverickinvictus, melinda010100, melvadg, minnowbuilder, minnowsupport, mirrors, misterengagement, mitneb, moneyinfant, mountainjewel, mrday, naditinkoff, newageinv, ofildutemps, openmic, osm0sis, ourfreesociety, pifc, pruebas, reazuliqbal, rentmoney, spaminator, steemflagrewards, steemitworldmap, stevenwood, themanwithnoname, themobilewriter, thewritersblock, utopian-io, veryspider, yogajill, youarehope.
There are a reasonable amount of the above accounts still active, and considering most of the delegations were made a year or two ago, I think the SP boost early on has helped with retention. Thanks for sticking around!
I've also managed to vote for quite a lot of accounts with my main account and the tribe related alts - 11498 so far, and I hope that number rises in the coming months.
My vote weight history (excluding downvotes) looks reasonable, but I'm not sure without other charts to compare (fancy a pie-chart anyone?). I do think my own account being 3rd in the list isn't particularly awesome, but at least it's not the biggest slice - 'everyone else' taking that by a distance.
The tribes have helped build my SP, and I'm about 5000 STEEM 'up' from Steem-Engine as well as holding a reasonable number of tokens like STEM and SPORTS. I'm looking forward to SMT and hope that some tribes choose to migrate so's to take advantage of things like the steempress plugin, and be able to market directly to sites in which their niche token would sit best.
I want to say thank you to everyone who's still around, those who support my content, those who secure the chain, and those that make me laugh each day.
Onwards!
Ash
I don't think I an beet the low RC score....
Congrats on the 50K! but remember you need 100K vested to be an Orca:
You think 10 Million for Steemit Inc and an ill-gotten stake?
I have delegated to quite a few also, but unsure how many are still active, especially among those that I onboarded. Galen has done okay though :)
I think when it comes to lifetime voteweight, I might be pretty high on my own list, but then I haven't SV'd for near on a year I think now.
Congrats again on the great milestone - see you at the top of Steem School!!!
Is it 100k now, ffs! :)
Yeah I did hear Galen was doing quite well %-wise, none of the 6/7 I onboarded are writing but some are still vested.
ha :D I'm a slow learner but will listen intently for any pearls......
100K vests, it is about 51500 Steem I think :D
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Dude! The supreme leader of the steem school is going to San Francisco, while you guys are loitering around!
Anyone have an address, I need to give a contract? Never mind, I think I will just invite @galenkp he will do the job for free, and probably will give me a finders fee!
It’s a shame he’s not sharing his knowledge in the UK anytime soon, I feel like I’m missing out!
I'm of the strong belief that one should only type in whale sounds once they achieve orca-hood.
translated into Orca (Northwestern Atlantic dialect):
Whaaoaoooooooooooaoaoo Ahrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooo Whiieeeeeaooooooohhhhhhwhw
Damn it. I only speak Pacific Whale.
I'm still around, and your delegation helped me to get to 500SP minnow status, and now I am well on my way to dolphin, slightly less than a couple hundred off from 2800SP, I know things seem uncertain, and I am not real happy with current events, but still here. Stuff changes, people either grow or mold. I still think FUD is fun.
Ah yes Hard fork 19 and everyone will be able to create accounts for free. I am still glad I did not believe it then and got my two free accounts before the initialization of the HF. One year later, and I still can not create a free account. At least I am half way to being able to do so.
Glad to help a little on your journey, our journey I guess :)
I have a load of claims and (although it didn't work today when I tried) I can sort you out an account if you have a name. Message me on discord if and when.
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Right now, I really don't. I do still have one account token left, my second account sits as a voting account only right now, so not sure what I would do with a third, even though I have a token to make one.
Fair enough. I was thinking of just cross-posting with an account - tidying up 😁
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Hot flaming donkey shit!!! Are you an Orca now? HAve you joined the ranks of us who must not be named?? :OD
Awesome biscuits dude!
Well I thought I had until Taraz mentioned that you now need 100,000k SP and sent us all back to the sea of Dolphins! :O
Cheers though, it's been a ride!
HEhe, he only means vests though doesnt he? It means you are only a wee bit shy SP wise, a thousand odd? I cant quite remember the calculation
The ride continues!!!! :O)
Not sure to be honest but happy with this round number. Buckle up, which way we going?!
To the
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Okay, first off, that imagined conversation was hilarious. Well played. Also, I'm glad you're still here. (((hugs)))
:D
I'm glad I'm still here to see that funky orange hat if nothing else. Thanks Katrina!
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(almost) Orca coming through!?
Buying more, despite the controversy. Brave move.
Good job mate, congratz.
Unsure of the exact amount but 50000 looks nice enough for now :)
Brave or dumbass, only one way to find out. Cheers!
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I've said it before and I'll say it again . . . thanks so much for that SP in the the early days. It made a huge difference, along with the engagement league to having a fun experience here.
I'm not active in the way I once was but I'm still here, waiting to see what happens next.
Whatever that is it's been a fun ride and I've enjoyed all the great people (yourself high on the list) that I've met here. 💙
aww thanks Gillian :)
The extra couple of STEEM those delegations would have 'cost' me have been made up for so many times over by the thanks i've gotten for such small gifts in the grand scheme of things.
Good to see you are still knocking around, you beat me in a SM battle the other day and so I'm seeking revenge :P
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Congrats Ash! That is the milestone I've had on my radar forever, lol. I have been picking up and vesting STEEM throughout the bear market, but only little pieces as I'm pretty wiped out from the crypto winter.
I've bought Sooooo much above $2... hell, I picked up plenty of $4 STEEM. And yeah, for a long time I just wiped crypto out of my mind, partitioned it off, as it were, for my own peace.
You mentioned in another comment you wish for more returnees to the community. I do, too. The poetry side of things has always been small in comparison to crypto-related content, and it feels a bit like a ghost town around these parts much of the time.
But, I've made the decision to view whatever I have or don't have in STEEM as "extra".... that is, not to think of it as income but in terms of a gift economy. Actually, I'm not entirely sure that's smart, since I've tended to continuously give away votes, my time, and energy and then get into a position where I can't pay food/rent.
There's being selfless... and then there's being stupid. At the same time, we can't take anything monetary out of this world with us. What's important is experiences, relationships, growth. Anywho, I may be digressing. But congrats again and glad there's people like you who have stuck it out. Cheers.
Thank you - It's been a long haul but finally :)
Buys at $2 and $4 must hurt and put you in two minds if to throw good money after 'bad' or not. I just can't resist down here and am grateful I had no fiat when STEEM was much higher.
I think many niche communities have/are suffering, there just aren't the numbers and I think the communities to be with (if the interest is there) are the ones with the SP backing - v4vapid and deep-dives is one.
Yeah, as much as I'd like the former at some point, i've seen Steem as the latter for most of my time here. However, if you are missing food to gift, then perhaps a reassessment needs to happen!
Thanks for the kind comment!
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My friend you davemccoy and simplymike are 99 percent of the reason i stayed. you are an amazing community member...
as for the conversation above...that is a very interesting take on it...and you may be right. rich(successful) people are generally preety smart....and that scenario may well be very correct.
Ahh thanks John, that's good for me to hear :)
Hopefully we'll be rewarded for grafting away these past couple of years, good luck to you.
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congrats Ash
Cheers Michael!
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