I believe that your own post answered several questions.

The model takes time and I understand the frustration when the market is high. But, for everyone who starts here, they know how it works and already have in mind that it will have a "blocked" value. For the sake of the community, for security, to keep it working there in the beginning, it is necessary. Now, you should also have a "savings" as you say, do not spend everything on power. Make your "stock" for when you need it. I even keep some Hives at Binance for cases just like now, until Steem I still have them. In a hope that maybe beat 1 dollar lol

Ps: I played a lot of WoW too, and incidentally, a Priest skill bar :P

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