Progress Report - December 2020

January 1^st, 2021

Monthly Progress Report December

My monthly progress reports serve a couple of purposes:

The first one, and primary reason for doing them, is that it allows me to see where I have been, where I am going, and where I am falling short in my personal goals.
The second purpose they serve is to let people, new accounts and old, see an honest representation of an account built from scratch and not really knowing anything at all about cryptocurrency.

As most people on Hive Block Chain know we went Live on Friday March 20th, 2020 at least in my time zone in Alaska. My first "Monthly Report" was on 4/1/2020. For the first three months I did a weekly progress report update. The next six months were a monthly and a mid month report. In 2021 I will be doing only the monthly report.

Monthly Charts and Tables

The Monthly Progress Report Table:

![Monthly Hive Earnings/report Table](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/c29XZDa2-december.png) ![blurb.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/lxlAbMrD-blurb.png)

At the start of the Hive Block Chain I was airdropped about 3,054 Hive. Somewhere along the course of Hive I decided to just use the Hive Chain and pretty much closed out and transferred all my account and activities to Hive.

With the transfer of my steem balance and earnings from posting, voting and being engaged on Hive I have grown my Hive account by about 4,642 Hive. I am closing in on 7,000 HP and hope by the end of the 2021 to have 10,000 plus HP powered up from earnings.

I am hoping my average earnings, (117 HP), will increase and that the goal will be reachable.

Chart glitches and holes, LeoFinance started having an APR indicator on their stats page on 5/13/2020. Just enter your name and you can see your info. During the hard Fork in October the APR was not available.

As you can see from the two pie charts it would be better if I could convert HBD to HIVE on a daily basis to obtain a better relationship as to where the earnings are really coming from.

On a monthly basis the difference would not appear to be that extreme, however when one looks at the year end pie it is pretty obvious I need a better method and will be something to think about the coming year.

A nice rise at the beginning of HIVE mostly due to the closing out of my Steem account. Things were a bit slow afterward but still a nice steady climb and then a nice jump October to November. I had a little help via a few delegations, and an increase in my own efforts in posting and commenting, along with some Hive-Engine profit/loss taking because I wanted a big bee badge.

Engagement Charts and Tables:

Not as active in December, I do hope to try and maintain a 300 a month comment level through-out 2021.

I do need a bit more consistance in my posting, but I feel that 8 to 10 are going to be the norm more often than not through-out 2021.

It will be nice if I can stay in the 80-100 weekly range, I know I will be far short for the first week in January as I have not been very active at all commenting on post this week so far as you can clearly see in the chart below.

The Comment Commitment

A complete fail on it. I did sort of come kind of close but still fell pretty short. @galenkp surpassed his goal by a healthy margin, and I am likely to be about a month and a half late, but feel that by Valentines day I will be there. I am pretty sure that @bigtom13 made his goal as I have seen him real active in lots of areas.

There was a question about sincerity, but I am positive we were pretty sincere in each and every comment we gave to people in striving to increase our engagement on Hive Block Chain.

Conclusion and side notes:

My charts have gone through a lot of changes over the last nine months.This was the beginning chart, not much to really look at. I am sure that my charts will change through 2021 also. https://images.hive.blog/500x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/y86XTiSD-March20stats.png Since that humble beginning chart I have learned. I learned a lot about how to do charts from @paulag and her excel postings, even though I do not use excel myself. I also picked up a little graph and chart styling from @arcange and his Hive Stats reports. So lets end with one more chart:

This information was obtained from the Curation and Engagement League that @abh12345 runs. If you are interested or think you might want to start tracking a vew various aspects of your activity on Hive then the Curation and Engagement League would be a good place to start. All you have to do is asked to be added to his weekly tracker.

All the people mentioned above and many more have been a help and inspiration to me during my crypto journey.

It is difficult to see where we will be in the year 2021. I hope it will be one of fun, but there was plenty of fun to be had in 2020 also. We choose to see and remember what we want, yes there was a lot of bad in 2020 world wide, but those of us still here survived.