My Hive continues to grow, mostly on the back of my curation, (voting on things I like). So far for the month of June I have not dropped below 2.0 Hive a day. To me that is a lot of progress, I have always been just a manual voter and a vote as I see it person. I remember back at the beginning of hive an I would only get between 0.5 and 1.0 Hive a day for my votes.

I can not stress enough to the new user leave the auto powered up rewards alone, don't power them down, just use the liquid rewards part to live/play with.

I have been doing a little playing on the POB site, and while I may not be earning a lot, I use those earnings more and more for expansion of my investment. I try to power up 50% so that vote power increase and thus the curation reward increase. The other 50% I sell and reinvest elsewhere. Currently since I want to get to one ETH token I have been converting to Hive and then sending some to Ionomy and buying ETH with it.

Last week I had about 0.020 ETH this week I am up to 0.022 ETH, not a whole lot of growth, but still I creep closer to that 1.0 Eth mark. This pretty much with 25% of my POB earnings.

Being in for the long haul I try not to worry so much about the price of Hive or crypto in general, during the down price times just means I earn more Hive.