HIVEing around the block, trying to find more DEC for Conclave Arcana

I'm excited. This is the first time I'm wealthy enough to participate in a Pre-Sale. That's great as feeling my personal financial growth (I don't need to hang on to any penny anymore, but can spend more and more on things that I enjoy), as well as feeling a little less under pressure and being able to go around my bakery a little more relaxed.

We're 13 days away from the end of Pre-Sale, and I want some Gold packages - just because of the black foils. They're 12k DEC / $12 each. But I don't want to throw in anymore FIAT, but use my HIVE that I earned here, as well as SPS (although I'll try to avoid that). I'm currently buying between 1000-2000 DEC daily, but I will have to up that a lot, so I started getting to work on my blog. In the last week, I posted every day - but at different times, and the end of the day on HIVE is apparently afternoon for me. I posted once a day IN MY DAY, but not HIVE days, so it marks one day as 2 posts.

I also try to comment more, engage more, keep my posts between 500-800 words (which is very hard for me!), and be a good bee, following the advice that I had gotten from some of the more experienced folks, most importantly Azircon who I can't thank enough.

I used to only follow a Splinterlands-Curation trail, but the more time I spend here, the more I do the curation myself. You can see a clear uptrend in daily curation rewards, which is not translatable to DEC I think, as it's paid in HP. But that's fine, I like that my account is growing. Talking about...

Isn't this a nice chart? Generally, I placed a rule on myself to always do 50/50 in rewards, but use 25% of the HBD to power up. That has led to this beautiful growth. But right now, I'm thinking about putting all the HBD into DEC and buy packs - kind of a martial law situation.

My goal is to reach the 5000 HP in 2025. It will be hard, but we'll see - if I can keep up the pace that I'm working on at the moment, it might even work out before. The rewards for my regular posting could be way more than I thought. If AZ is right and my account will grow faster if I engage more regularly, then this is just the beginning:

This is after one week of daily posting, reading and commenting. Besides the food for my brain, the reward part is not that bad. $4,50 per post is a lot, considering that I usually spend an hour on each post (writing, thinking mostly more), and that the minimum wage here in Ecuador is $3.80 (considering extra wages and insurance, without that, it's $2.93). It's like that moment where you realize that you can actually make money by thinking and writing and engaging with people. Total mind blow.

Going through the dashboard, I saw this feature as well, and realized that my personal curation is one spot 1 and 2 on my outgoing votes, with Azircon and Tarazkp, both of who I read a lot. Some of my other favorites are there, too, like bravetofu, flummi, galenk, thejedo and bozz.

Besides AZ and Taraz, I don't recognize most of my incoming votes - I've probably never engaged with them, and it could be because they're voting trails or automated likes. Both is fine, I take the extra Hive, but I will go through that list and check them, anyway - maybe there are interests aligned. I find new content creators almost daily now, as I'm engaging more and more, so it's not even that unlikely.

Pre-Sale-Goal

Okay, here it comes - I want another copy of Gramel. That means, 400.000 DEC, or 400 HBD, 33.33 Gold Packs. I already have half of that together. I might have to throw in some FIAT, but that would be okay. I don't have to worry about that too much right now. Feels so good.