Hive and Hive Engine Power Up Day - January 2024

Hey Hivers,

Happy new year! yeah, let's get this out of the way first... I hope everybody finished the year well, and is ready to start 2024 strong. And for that, nothing better than Hive Power Up day! As often, I'll start with a little bit of bragging. Since my first HPUD back in December 2012, I only missed one! A dumb time zone mistake while traveling in April of 2023... Sorry it's a big picture, but I think it looks pretty cool:

It's almost as good for Hive Power Up Month. Since the first one I joined in November 2021, I only missed two, one a year. Again, dumb mistakes while traveling through different time zones. Anyways, let's focus now on 2024 and the first Power Up of the year. As usual, it's also an opportunity to review my account details, its growth, and the various next goals and targets.

HIVE

As always, let's start with Hive. Like I explained many times, powering up large amounts for HPUD is difficult for me because I use the 100% Powered Up option for my daily posts, of course in order to succeed in PUM. So for this month, my Power Up is very minimal, just 10.666HP. I'll see if I am able to get a few more HBD next month, so I can convert them into more Hive.

Talking about HBD, like every month, I pushed a symbolic amount to savings, to take advantage of the 20% APR. Just like last month, it's again only 0.666HBD. But tiny steps by tiny steps, and with the force of compounding, I am now just a few cents shy of 150HBD in savings. It will pay off in the long run

As far as growth is concerned, it is a fairly typical month, with a very steady and consistent raise, almost linear again. Starting at 4590HP, I added 162HP to reach 4752HP. It's one of my best totals, and better than last month. On a daily average, it's again significantly higher than my 4HP daily target, yay!!

Including today's Power Up, the final number is 4763HP! That's a total increase of 173HP over December, which is my second best I believe.

SPORTS

Regarding SPORTS, it was better than last month but with about 473k added to my stake, it is slightly below my 500k monthly target. It's really not bad, and like I say every month, my strategy is very simple and does not change anyways: everything I earn via posting and curation is just staked. 17.25M is now my total stake. I'll have to check the rich list, I might be getting up there.

ALIVE

My monthly target (500) was also missed for ALIVE. But with 471AP added to my stake, it's also not that far. With all the rewards and passive income opportunities the We Are Alive tribe offers, I am sure I can do better very soon, and it's definitely worth it.

PHOTO

PHOTO is still not really a focus, but I like to accumulate it as much as I can. This was a slow month though. With only about 811 added to my stake, this was really far from my 1250 monthly target. I'll probably have to revise this target, I almost did last month already.

LOLZ

LOLZ growth was very weak for me last month, it's a little better this month with about 177 added to my stake. It is still below my target range though (200-250). The returns from my delegations have been a bit lower than they used to be. That's the main reason I cannot reach at least 200 anymore.

CTP

And finally CTP. I feel bad because I just added it to the main part of this post a couple months ago, but maybe it's already time to remove it. I completely lost focus on this one, and only added about 500 to my stake. I forgot to set a target last month anyways...

Targets

• My 4HP daily target was beaten at least 3 months in a row, but I still think it is a good one for now. If it is beaten again in January though, we'll reevaluate it.
• 500k monthly target for SPORTS seem slightly out of reach the past couple of months, but I'll keep it for now. Let's try again in January!
• Same for my 500AP monthly target for ALIVE. Challenging, as I missed it one more time, but I know it can be done!
• Unlike these two, my 1250 monthly target for PHOTO really seems to far. Let's see if we can reach at least 1000 in January.
• For LOLZ, I'll try and get back in the 200-250 monthly range. I will change and increase again some of my delegations and it might do the trick.
• No target for CTP anymore. Like I said, I even forgot about it last month!
• I increased some delegations to get more drip tokens, and continue to add to some diesel pools, but still no specific target for either of them.
• I keep accumulating a few other tokens, that I then delegate to receive LOLZ rewards. But no specific target there either.

Well, that is pretty much it. The very same conclusion for my account this month: consistent and steady growth. It slowed down a little bit for second layer tokens though, but nothing to worry about yet. I am hoping to continue the same trend in 2024 and of course beyond.

And I'll finish slightly differently this month as I found this cool recap of my year on Hive (https://recap.hivecreators.co/). It's mostly for myself so I can find it next year and compare with the new recap:

Now I will say it one more time: happy new year and best wishes for 2024!