My Week in Review for Sept. 28, 2024 and some Cool Silver!

This has been a nice week to see Hive about the $0.20 mark for the first time in quite awhile. Hopefully there will be even more gains in the near future now that we are leaving the month of October behind. It has almost always been the dreaded nemesis of cryptocurrency, but it looks like we may have beaten the curse!

It's Saturday again so I'm going to be sharing a Saturday Savers post. I joined the community to help myself focus on my goals here on Hive. When I actually wrote them down it has helped me stick to my game plan better than I have before. If you don't already participate it's a great way to keep yourself motivated!

And since I'm a member of the Silver Gold Stackers I've thrown in my weekly silver surprise at the end. This weeks is one of the cooler ones in existence in my humble opinion. So check it out!

Lets jump into the numbers for this past week.

Hive Power

This last week was a good one in the Hive Power category. As of the time of writing up this post I'm currently at 4,818 Hive Power, which is an increase of 116 since last week. That puts me at 96% of my goal which is 5,000 HP before year's end. Hopefully I will cross the finish line somewhere in the next two weeks. So close I can taste it now!

I'm maintaining my growth organically which has been the goal pretty much all along. If I can make it to dolphin status by blogging and reinvesting my HBD then anyone can do the same in just over a year and a half. I'm sure it could be done much faster if with proper guidance from the get go, it took me months to figure out what I needed to do pretty much on my own. I hope to use my experience to help onboard and retain new members to Hive, the more Hive grows the more we all prosper!

DUO

That last thought brings me to the DUO token. A big driver for starting this project was the clear need to help new members succeed on Hive. Several months ago along with @bitcoinman and @bulliontools we created the token with the goal of raising enough HP through the token sales and earnings to help onboard and retain new Hive members. We are still very early in the project, but this past week we surpassed 20,000 HP in the @duo-curator account. It happened much faster than we had ever anticipated!

Now some more about how DUO token works. Those who buy and stake at least 200 DUO tokens can receive a daily curation on their quality posts and daily Hive dividends as well. For those with 500 or more DUO there is a tip bot available, and when you tip someone you in return receive the same tip amount in your account. It pays to tip DUO!

I'm holding 963 DUO right now and I'm buying up more regularly. Right now the price is one Hive per DUO token until the tranche sells out then it jumps to 1.5 Hive a piece. Our first batch sold out quickly and the second one is nearly halfway sold out. Now is the time to buy in while they are still inexpensive.

PIMP

My secondary goal of the year was to accumulate 50K PIMP. It's one of my favorite projects here on Hive. My buying has slowed due to price increases and investing heavily in the creation of DUO. I'm at 29,570 this week mainly from curation rewards and tips. I'm hoping to still make it, but since October is coming up I'm going to have to start getting more serious in my buying!

Leo

I have added this to my goals not too long ago, with a goal of making it to 1,500 by New Years. I have 1,135 total at the moment all from curation rewards. I think I should make it to the goal as long as I keep posting regularly.

HSBI

My goal was to achieve 2,000 HSBI this year, not only did I manage to do but now it looks more like I'll hit 3,000 before too much longer. That would be 150% of the original benchmark. Here's where I stand as of this morning:

I'm up 42 units on the week, that's a nice addition to my HSBI numbers!

Now for those out there who aren't familiar with HSBI or how it works I have some info and resources that can help you out. I will also include a link below to enter my weekly ten HSBI giveaway, it's easy to enter. Feel free to enter and hopefully win some HSBI.

Here's that info on HSBI:

The HSBI program provides periodic upvotes on your posts, and the more you have the more frequent the upvote and bigger as well. If you want more information you can read my post about it here:

https://inleo.io/@thebighigg/hsbi-what-are-they-my-experience-and-a-starter-guide

Last year when I started to look at HSBI more seriously I had a grand total of eleven units. I decided to invest more in the program by adding a daily re-blog lottery to my posts. It really made my numbers grow. Eventually, I became tired of the daily extra work and so I switched the giveaway to a weekly event. I also started to sponsor other weekly events and continue to do so every week. Some of those events include Shadow Hunters, Three Tune Tuesday, and #NinetiesFriday in addition to my weekly ten HSBI giveaway. Here's the link to enter:

https://peakd.com/hive-140084/@thebighigg/ten-hsbi-and-two-duo-token-giveaway-week-28-3qh

If you have questions about the events above feel free to ask, my favorite currently is #ninetiesfriday where you can share anything from the 1990's. Your imagination is the limit! One lucky winner will win six HSBI every week, three from @geneeverett and three from me.

SIM

I am still holding just over one million of these tokens and plan to pick up another million by the end of the year. What I like about the token is that it pays daily Hive dividends. It is the token of the dCity game and that got me playing the game as well, so now I am invested not only in the token but the game too!

Other Tokens

No big changes here, I am continuing to collect DBOND and DAB. I have both my DBONDs and DABs staked, so the staked DBOND produces more DAB, and the staked DAB produces more DBOND. So they are slowly growing. EDS I'm just continuing to hold just about 100 and don't foresee any big changes any time soon.

Silver

Silver as well as other precious metals have been performing well over the last week. I personally believe that we are just seeing the warm up on the trend. With the war in the middle east looking more and more like it's going to expand and the threat of World War 3 stemming from the Ukraine/Russia war, people buy up gold and silver because it will always have value. Personally the saber rattling coming from Putin over the use of nuclear weapons on a daily basis is becoming a little scary. One misstep or misunderstanding could end in a nuclear holocaust. Best to have some precious metals for the worst case scenario.

silver over the last five days, chart from kitco.com

The chart is showing further price strengthening, hopefully there will be another nice push upward in the next few days. Every week I like to share some silver that you can invest in, today is no exception except today I'm going with something really cool!

Many of you who are new to investing in silver and gold may not realize that you can get far more interesting items these days. I know I frequently like to talk about coins from Niue, it's just because they are just so awesome. This is one that I really want to buy, but it sold out just about everywhere right now. How about a spherical silver coin in the shape of the Death Star? This one is any Star Wars fan dream come true, me included!

This comes in either 100 grams or 300 grams, but of course bigger is better? The price certainly will be a lot higher. The best price I can find on eBay for the smaller one is $300 and I can't find anyone willing to part with the 300 gram variety. Have a look, these are really cool!

Pictures from Apmex.com

About the coin:

From numista.com

It's an awesome coin, and on this 300 grams variety only 1000 were made. It's an item that will go up in value even though Disney is trying their best to ruin the franchise... It takes coin collecting to a whole new level, no longer are all coins round. There is even a Pac Man coin shaped like Pac Man!

But this Death Star is one on my wish list, if I can ever find the right price it's one I will buy for sure. It's been there for quite awhile now, I may have waited too long to get a good price... I haven't given up hope yet!

If you are interested in precious metals the #silvergoldstackers community may be right for you. We share silver and gold items with each other, and even if you don't have any precious metals to share you can still participate and learn!

Thanks for taking time to read over my goals here on Hive. I'm getting close to a couple now and I'm pumped up to hit dolphin! Thanks everybody for your support, It's truly appreciated. If you have any comments or question please feel free to leave them below. I hope you all have a great weekend!

References:

https://www.apmex.com/product/293706/2024-niue-300-gram-silver-10-star-wars-death-star-sphere

https://www.kitco.com/charts/silver

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces402052.html

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces402052.html

Disclaimer:

I am not a financial planner and this isn't financial advice. Please always do your own research before investing your money. You worked hard enough to earn it!

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DUO token

This is a brand new token from the Hive Onboarding Committee (HOC). It offers curation, dividends, and a tipping bot for those who stake enough tokens. The overall purpose of the token is to stack enough HP to be able to assist the HOC in onboarding and retaining new members to Hive.

Please check out the white paper: https://peakd.com/pimp/@hive-193566/duo-white-paper

You can find DUO for sale here:

https://tribaldex.com/trade/DUO
https://hive-engine.com/trade/DUO

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