With over 40 months of Steeming behind us we continue onto 2020 with month "43" to which I still have no plans on fully quitting Steem if possible.

Getting the report out

We have managed 3 months in a row on getting the report out on time, this was after 8 months of shenanigans and as for this month it seems this will also be out on time.

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 Steem or got bored/lazy that's actually very far from the truth.
I was actually spending alot more time instead behind the scenes being more active with communities on the Steem eco-system which infact rewarded me for some of my efforts.
This ship and "our growth" is still very much continuing to sail into a upward direction, I hope that you can see that as we reached dolphin and the 7500 mark which was done way before the end of 2019.

My hope was that it was a better way to continue our growth especially with the lower Steem prices.
And like promised I have started putting-up some of my more content driven post's when possible, but while the community seemed enthusiastic with curating after the hardfork22 changes it seems like once again the interest in voting as gone down again, or maybe it's just me, but speaking to others there still seems to be a lack of support for many content creators.

A Good Month?

Right after the HardFork21 came into effect I felt alot more confident that it may not be so bad going forwards I still expected a %20 loss, but strangely what happened was the complete opposite.
It actually made a path for some of our best "month's" so far.
Steem continues low which means you can generally earn more Steem and is why I think we saw some extra growth.

Make Your Own Goals

First I hope you will all play-along here with me, you should have in mind some kind of Steem related goal for 2020 even if it's just something small that you would like to achieve on the blockchain, the reason is it will help you to stay focused.

Or you can think bigger, for example my big Steem goal last year was to reach dolphin, this happened finally after 2 years as you can imagine I was very happy 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.

I was amazed that we even got the 2nd Dolphin badge at 7500 and so with 7500 SP locked away our mission was to position ourselves with the best possible Steem Power "out-come" before the end of the year to reach double dolphin.

And I think we have done good with "7.841 SP" Locked away.

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

10000 SP DOUBLE DOLPHIN

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 now 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 ridiculous changes due to our new Steemit INC ownership.

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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 all 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.
On March 22th 2019 we managed to get enough SP to finally reach Dolphin but what I didn't manage was to get the funds for attending Steemfest-4 but I must admit unlike the other times I can't say I tried as hard because I already knew the costs were going to be much higher this time. Basically I didn't see it as being achievable and so instead what I done was I powered-up 300 Steem to my account in hope of locking more of Steem's value and helping others grow.
In the end the cost's were lower then I expected to attend Steemfest-4 but I'm still not sure I would of been able to make the money needed to attend the event.

Of course this was all before Steemit was sold over by Ned and brought by Justin Sun in February, since then much as changed as Ned was no longer captain.

I remember 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, and soon took Steem down a path of survival with Steemit INC even being forced to lose %70 of its staff and the site itself being in danger of closure.
Instead the danger is the lack of knowledge from it's new ownership, there were many different ways to view this news but in the end as I suspected Justin brought Steemit without much research.

The recent price drops have indeed shocked many who were not expecting to see Steem ever go this low again, especially with the Bitcoin recovery that went back 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 so dearly.
And so I say its a time for opportunity not doom and gloom...well aslong as the new ownership doesn't screw this whole thing up for everyone.

Moving Forward With New Hope And Opportunity!

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At The London Cryptocurrency Show

I have felt for sometime now a big problem on here 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".

Shame really as we needed more strong mid level accounts to help support each other as many of these accounts actually still struggle to grow.
And not only that I have seen people who have supported Steem endlessly not even powering down once to suddenly getting downvoted because they earned too much on a post and while it may seem unfair a certain user earn so much remember these folks are actually retaining the price value, yet there are some in power downvoting some of the very very few who are actually not selling their Steem Power....???? Why a'm I missing something here? Seriously think about it.

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 the newbies on getting a better idea on what to expect from the Steemit.com platform.

But before we go into month 43 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, 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 onward and focus on this month's results.

📅 Month 43 - 13/4/2020 the results are..

Ok so this month I was expecting to do possibly around the same as the effects of hardfork21/22 continue which as been mostly positive for gains.
But the other reason I suspected we might do good this month was because of the Steem price remaining low, well mostly low as the price did start slowly going upwards, but since the "take-over" nonsense the price as fell again not as low as last month when it fell to $0.09! Because as you know the further down the Steem price goes the more Steem you can earn from people who up-vote you with some decent SP behind them, but this month we were not blessed with any big whale up-votes.

With the price of Steem being lower I hope it as proved just how great it can be for building-up your account's SP.
Things got good 4 month ago when we managed to get a gain of "403!!!" SP that's our highest gain which I believe we wont be able to beat anytime soon.

For some reason I feel the price feeds maybe a little off as sometimes we seem to be gaining more SP then usual this might have something to do with puppet witnesses but I thought they did update their feeds.

Anyway moving on 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, something around another 300 SP would be awesome.

Now when in comes to follower's please remember there was a error a few months ago which made it look like we lost alot of followers, but that was not the case and instead we have been slowly gathering more.
And so with no sudden big loss instead we have still gained, another (3) which is not as surprising as the 19 we gained a few months back, yet it's still something nice to see.

For "Reputation" it's great to be finally getting closer to that mighty 70, we are now only 2 away from reaching that goal.
I can definitely see us getting there now..well at some point atleast lol, I remember when 60 seemed so high, but hopefully this year we can make that 70 rep? That would be awesome!
Still it does look difficult to obtain in that time frame, it's a long road up-ahead plus I think since the HF21 it as got tougher to gain rep which I did mention was expected to happen and I think it's a good thing.
I can't complain as we managed to slowly reach a 68 rep without the help of bidbots, hopefully we can get up another 2 notch's for next month, which actually I was surprised we managed to get that this time again.

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Other STATS 📊

Apparently there are around 1,376,000 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 in around position (##1923)

Wahh finally broke into the top 2000 SteemPower Holders after 3 years, which for me I am very happy with such a result, it's just a shame as of right now it doesn't seem to really count for much anymore due to such a low price.
And last month after 2 years we finally beat my best Stake Holder's position of #2225 very happy beating that.
Another happy outcome was the report from now 9 months ago as it was the last time we went downwards in the Power Holder rankings, it wasn't by much, something really silly like 3 places down, but it was only disappointing because on the previous (4) reports we had gone up around 50 places each time and more importantly on that particular month when we fell was strangely actually one of our highest months for earning SP and yet we had still gone down in the rankings.

But never mind as I don't know how it's possible but we jumped up 150 places 3 months ago, before that 80 and previous to that 70, last time I mentioned that I was in hope to jump 100 places but instead we managed 80 well this month we got the 100 places up that I wanted.

Still the good news is this just proves that with Steem down people are still buying some STEEM and so the wealth is spreading which is something very much needing to happen, especially now more than ever with Justin Sun holding such a large stake that is actually being used.

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 crazy 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 stopped fully working argh! So please if anybody knows of a 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!
This as been made even more difficult due to many leaving Steemit due to much of the drama over the years.

3 YEARS AND NEVER A POWER 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 help 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 76,000 UPVOTES 👫

The locked Steem Power 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 76,900 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 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 fears that they might became completely useless with low SP holder but it still continues to add value to your reputation.

Another thing is please vote more on those who are actually active on the Blockchain, too often I see auto-votes on people who are rarely active, who don't vote on anybody else's post's, who rarely communicate's with others or those who are always powering down, yet many are feeding these accounts.....seriously it's a BIG cause for Steem's value to continue depleting yet many continue to upvote these accounts!? Why?

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 no problem but give the dolphin's a helping hand as they are more likely to vote back and will shape the future for a far more fair share of the rewards pool.

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.
Many whales sleep or have left the platform, but their past sold Steem Power doesn't worry me as in the end Hardfork21/22 is dealing with such problems plus more importantly it gives others the opportunity to now buy-in.

When it came to the changes of the hardfork21/22 many are naming a certain select group of individuals as the "Steem Nazi's" as while some cases of downvoting did have a good point others are definitely taking some instances a little too far which is why many want a non-free-downvoting system.
Maybe the SMT's or perhaps communities which are available will be a solution for dealing with such a aftermatch.

Still the low price is a nice gain for those who want-in 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'm saying we need more people who are actually active, locking away their Steem Power but also curating, vote on those who are supportive and have some decent power behind them like this Steem will actually grow, so vote now and help me make this happen.

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