Darn I was ready and had the day free to get this out right on time but as some of you may know I got the flu again and it left me unable to get out of bed, and once I got better I first wanted to get things up to date before getting down to posting this out, strangely I think I caught the flu around exactly this same time last month, how odd I just hope it doesn't became "a thing" now lol.

Anyway I will mention again my lack of posts in general are down, but before you think I have given-up on Steemit or got bored 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 Blockchain which infact still reward's me for my efforts so don't worry about this ship and "our growth" it still very much continues sailing in the upward direction.
Actually my hope is that this is a better way for me to at the moment to continue it's growth especially with these low Steem prices but of course still I continue with the future goal of giving back more.

This month I still feel we have done well considering the low prices, the fact prices are so low in-its-self can help by giving different opportunities in many ways.
I think we should be pretty close to the previous results...well I hope.
Last time I done this I still had to consider the holidays and yes I do mean the Christmas holidays, I cant believe how far behind they are now but if I remember correctly they didn't really cause much of a disturbance.

But anyway so here we are month 29, well into the new year and of course with valentines it's a month of love, also by now you should already have in mind some sort of goal for this year 2019 and hopefully a Steem related goal, even if it's something small u'd like to achieve on the blockchain.

If you didn't know yet my big steemit goal for this year is reaching dolphin.
Previously my goal was to reach around 4.900 SP by the end of December it seemed realistic at the time but the price going so low of course stopped that from happening.

But now 2019 I will try and make dolphin finally happen for us all and you can help as with only 190-SP to go I appreciate you all who have helped us get this far.

The course as been set! Now let's GO!
Gods-speed.

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So this now marks over 2 years on Steemit.com the price as been low for months now but I of course I 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 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.

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

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.

Also 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.
While Steem as been much lower now due to Bitcoin falling and it's took us down a path of survival for Steemit.com due to Steem INC losing %70 of its staff and the site itself being in danger of closure.

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 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

Its now 2019 and I still had so much to write about the things that took place back at the Steemfest events and some of the other gathering's, I thought I was one of the only people that felt that way but I have heard from other Steemians this is not the case.
I dont think that content now will ever see the light of day from me or any other Steemian.
For me I didn't get the time needed as I also got a back-log of content I wanted to write about so I can clear out my email notes but also have work to deal with.
But sad to not release any of the remaining "not seen yet" pictures from especially Steemfest2 I have finished gathering all these photos and now sharing them with you guys all this year along with the price updates.

Anyway doing these monthly reports 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 for what to expect with the Steemit.com platform.

But before going into month 29 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 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 in this month's results.

📅 Month 29 - 17/1/2019 the results are..

Ok so last month I expected to have done around the same as the previous or just abit better and I must say I was very happy we previously managed 162 SP!
Which is already another 16 extra SP from the previous month, so yes very happy.
And again this time round I expected around 160 SP, but dam we blew that out of the water and earned 181 SP instead, not going to lie did not expect that at all, not sure how that happened maybe some bumps on the Steem price here and there helped but regardless thanks to all those who have supported to make this happen.

When in comes to follower's there was a error it showed I had a total of 2600 followers last month when it should of been 2560 followers, yea the five must of gone missing..so no I haven't suddenly lost alot of people but instead gained another 9 which is what I roughly what I expected.

Reputation, its great to be at 66-rep yay! And now I'am on 66.4 so another notch up as expected and on the road to having a rep of 67 nearly half way.

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Other STATS 📊

Apparently there are around 1,221,845 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 #2764 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 I have gone down this month which did surprised me a little since we done so well but it was not by much only 3 places down hopefully we can recover those.

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 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 👪👪👪👪

So followers.. sorry but the "Dead Followers" type tool I used does not work, I'am not sure why having such a thing seems so difficult I have used 4 different tools now which all have had their own problems and eventually stopped working so if anybody knows of one that works please let me know in the comments 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 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 gained 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 HAVE 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 offer 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 here over 2 years ago!

MORE THAN 53,000 UPVOTES 👫

Looked Steem of course helps the price of Steem rise up also to give you an idea on how much I have voted I have done over 53,000 upvotes!
Which puts me in the TOP 500 for votes.

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 made but I will get there hopefully.

Closing Last Notes

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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, to often I see auto-votes on people who are rarely active and what I mean is they never vote on anybody's posts.

Basically the more people who we can get over 5000 power and are actively voting the higher the probability of you earning a good vote in the future will be.
I believe we need a strong number of dolphins as there are too many in power who just vote for their rich inner circles or who are not even active voting, but yet I see many supporting them.

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 we'll will have to wait and see with SMT's.

Also realise that we no longer have many active whales voting, this is because they are using less time consuming ways of using their SP, making Steemit.com a more developers support type of a website but not only that too many Steemians sold away their SP, again you can trust me with your votes I have not powered down since day 1.
Anyway the whole situation could change with SMT's but honestly I still hope people will create content on Steemit.com in the future and get paid for it, hopefully earning something more than 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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https://steemit.com/steemit/@simonjay/daily-steem-price-update-31-12-2018

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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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