Thank you to my Steem supporters!
Welcome to the 88th weekly installment of my series on Steem income and growth!
Income on the Steem blockchain is generated by "investment" (the more currency you have, the more you earn) and by "work" (earning currency by contributing content that adds value). All my crypto holdings are in the STEEM currency. Now I'm working to earn more, by uploading unique valuable content to the blockchain.
Calculating weekly income
Considering income from accounts that I own, that my wife @MediKatie owns, and group projects using our funds (currently @greatesteem, @hempy, & @girlsofgreen), here's the running tally:
Week 01 - 0840 (+ ? ) STEEM (+n/a%)
Week 02 - 0848 (+ 8 ) STEEM (+0.95%)
Week 03 - 0862 (+14) STEEM (+1.65%)
Week 04 - 0868 (+ 6 ) STEEM (+0.70%)
Week 05 - 0876 (+ 8 ) STEEM (+0.92%)
Week 06 - 0888 (+12) STEEM (+1.37%)
Week 07 - 0914 (+26) STEEM (+2.93%)
Week 08 - 0929 (+15) STEEM (+1.64%)
Week 09 - 0936 (+ 7 ) STEEM (+0.75%)
Week 10 - 0953 (+17) STEEM (+1.82%)
Week 11 - 0960 (+ 7 ) STEEM (+0.73%)
Week 12 - 0966 (+ 6 ) STEEM (+0.63%)
Week 13 - 0973 (+ 7 ) STEEM (+0.72%)
Week 14 - 0980 (+ 7 ) STEEM (+0.72%)
Week 15 - 0986 (+ 6 ) STEEM (+0.61%)
Week 16 - 0991 (+ 5 ) STEEM (+0.51%)
Week 17 - 0996 (+ 5 ) STEEM (+0.50%)
Week 18 - 1032 (+36) STEEM (+3.61%)
Week 19 - 1040 (+ 8 ) STEEM (+0.78%)
Week 20 - 1045 (+ 5 ) STEEM (+0.48%)
Week 21 - 1051 (+ 6 ) STEEM (+0.57%)
Week 22 - 1059 ( +8 ) STEEM (+0.76%)
Week 23 - 1065 (+ 6 ) STEEM (+0.56%)
Week 24 - 1073 (+ 8 ) STEEM (+0.75%)
Week 25 - 1079 (+ 6 ) STEEM (+0.56%)
Week 26 - 1091 (+12) STEEM (+1.11%)
Week 27 - 1100 (+ 9 ) STEEM (+0.82%)
Week 28 - 1105 (+ 5 ) STEEM (+0.45%)
Week 29 - 1108 (+ 3 ) STEEM (+0.27%)
Week 30 - 1119 (+11) STEEM (+0.99%)
Week 31 - 1151 (+32) STEEM (+2.86%)
Week 32 - 1159 (+ 8 ) STEEM (+0.70%)
Week 33 - 1166 (+ 7 ) STEEM (+0.60%)
Week 34 - 1172 (+ 6 ) STEEM (+0.51%)
Week 35 - 1177 (+ 5 ) STEEM (+0.42%)
Week 36 - 1183 (+ 6 ) STEEM (+0.50%)
Week 37 - 1196 (+13) STEEM (+1.10%)
Week 38 - 1204 (+ 8 ) STEEM (+0.66%)
Week 39 - 1220 (+16) STEEM (+1.33%)
Week 40 - 1250 (+30) STEEM (+2.46%)
Week 41 - 1264 (+14) STEEM (+1.12%)
Week 42 - 1287 (+23) STEEM (+1.82%)
Week 43 - 1300 (+13) STEEM (+1.01%)
Week 44 - 1312 (+12) STEEM (+0.92%)
Week 45 - 1323 (+11) STEEM (+0.84%)
Week 46 - 1351 (+28) STEEM (+2.12%)
Week 47 - 1372 (+21) STEEM (+1.55%)
Week 48 - 1394 (+22) STEEM (+1.60%)
Week 49 - 1410 (+16) STEEM (+1.15%)
Week 50 - 1436 (+26) STEEM (+1.84%)
Week 51 - 1481 (+45) STEEM (+3.13%)
Week 52 - 1505 (+24) STEEM (+1.59%)
Week 53 - 1517 (+12) STEEM (+0.80%)
Week 54 - 1529 (+12) STEEM (+0.79%)
Week 55 - 1540 (+11) STEEM (+0.72%)
Week 56 - 1555 (+15) STEEM (+0.97%)
Week 57 - 1576 (+21) STEEM (+1.35%)
Week 58 - 1606 (+30) STEEM (+1.90%)
Week 59 - 1620 (+14) STEEM (+0.87%)
Week 60 - 1631 (+11) STEEM (+0.68%)
Week 61 - 1647 (+16) STEEM (+0.98%)
Week 62 - 1674 (+27) STEEM (+1.64%)
Week 63 - 1685 (+11) STEEM (+0.65%)
Week 64 - 1702 (+17) STEEM (+1.01%)
Week 65 - 1714 (+12) STEEM (+0.71%)
Week 66 - 1722 (+ 8 ) STEEM (+0.47%)
Week 67 - 1734 (+12) STEEM (+0.70%)
Week 68 - 1752 (+18) STEEM (+1.04%)
Week 69 - 1780 (+28) STEEM (+1.60%)
Week 70 - 1937 (157) STEEM (+8.82%)
Week 71 - 2080 (143) STEEM (+7.38%)
Week 72 - 2179 (+99) STEEM (+4.76%)
Week 73 - 2334 (155) STEEM (+7.11%)
Week 74 - 2368 (+34) STEEM (+1.46%)
Week 75 - 2379 (+11) STEEM (+0.46%)
Week 76 - 2424 (+45) STEEM (+1.89%)
Week 77 - 2479 (+55) STEEM (+2.27%)
Week 78 - 2501 (+22) STEEM (+0.89%)
Week 79 - 2517 (+16) STEEM (+0.64%)
Week 80 - 2535 (+18) STEEM (+0.72%)
Week 81 - 2555 (+20) STEEM (+0.79%)
Week 82 - 2567 (+12) STEEM (+0.47%)
Week 83 - 2580 (+13) STEEM (+0.51%)
Week 84 - 2616 (+36) STEEM (+1.40%)
Week 85 - 2692 (+76) STEEM (+2.91%)
Week 86 - 2746 (+54) STEEM (+2.01%)
Week 87 - 2830 (+84) STEEM (+3.06%)
Week 88 - 2840 (+10) STEEM (+0.35%)
Average weekly growth (last 10 weeks): +33.9 Steem (+1.29%)
In the past week, I donated a bunch of STEEM to [MAP], invested in a new Steem currency called Peace Tokens, and bought some other tokens I like the look of. Also, my 3Speak income disappeared, and I've declined to renew my membership for the time being. All told, it means my growth appears very minimal this week. It should be more reasonable again next week.
Note: As mentioned before, MediKatie and I are phasing out use of all our team accounts except GirlsofGreen. Another was dropped from the tally this week, and the last 2 will be dropped in each of the next 2 weeks. They have almost no SP and are barely noticed anyway.
Gratitude
Growth for this independent vlogger/journalist/activist/photographer/writer has been slow over the 2+ years I've been putting in fulltime effort on Steem. Everything here is about that almighty upvote. We don't grow through gifts, and Steem can't be mined, and there's really no other way except upvotes to get paid here. Sure, tokens are beginning to become a small factor for some, and will likely continue to expand going forward, but those are also driven by upvotes. It's upvotes which make the Steem world go around. Anyone saying otherwise is lying to you to hide their agenda.
I'm not saying it's all about they money. If it was, I wouldn't be here! I've worked for free, and lost everything I invested here, so it's not about that. What I'm saying is that growth relies on upvotes. It can't be done without them.
In other words, I couldn't be growing if it wasn't for you. So, THANK YOU!
Here are the accounts which have given me the most votes:
@phusionphil
@zcopley
@creativesoul
@steemvpn
@chevalier
@edgargonzalez
@medikatie
@girlsofgreen
@vantocan
@greatesteem
@hempy
@sativazeee
@smokiethebear912
@sharpshot
@j85063
@kph
@v-entertainment
These are the people who have voted on most of my posts, consistently for the past 6 months. Aside from my wife and a couple other accounts, I don't know those people, and don't follow them. They aren't bots, they aren't part of a curation trail, they aren't people I have secret agreements with, they don't have a lot of SP, they aren't part of a "community" or "tribe" with me, I didn't delegate to them to vote for me, and they didn't vote for me for guaranteed max curation returns. They're just regular Steem users who dish out votes often. That's the way Steem was supposed to work - real people genuinely and manually voting on content they believe deserved it. Discovery of high-quality original content, not the mess HF21 has made things into, which further neglects good content in favour of profitable content.
So, thank you to these people, who I guess I can call my Steem supporters, even though I don't know them! For helping me spread my message of Liberty, and organically grow my channel here, I'm sending you each a Peace Token.
You have received a Peace Token!
PEACE is a currency (which you now own 1/47000th of) within the Steem blockchain ecosystem, accessible through Steem-Engine! As a Peace Token holder, thank you very much for your efforts to spread and sustain peace.
As always, thank you to all creators and curators of quality content!
DRutter
It's good to see you're still going at it!
A couple of years ago, I remember steem being described as a "gift" economy, the gift being the upvotes. That does make sense in a way, the gift of an upvote is how we continue to grow our accounts. I agree with you that it's not just about the money, there's the interaction and the interesting information that gets posted on the steem blockchain, but it is indeed the upvotes that we get that grow our accounts.
After about 2 and 1/2 tears on the steem platform, I've managed to make it to a bit over 3000 SP on my account. Because of my delegations to a few projects, I'm using about 2600 SP for my upvote efforts. Right now, that's worth about 2 cents. :-)
hello @drutter I am wondering how did you make the chart for your voting history? I wonder how to make one for my own?
Hey, you can log in and go to https://steempeak.com/me/dashboard. In the center of that page are a couple graphs showing you vote stats. :)
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