Powering up 4525 HIVE - Yep - I'm now a DOLPHIN, well and truly!

Over the last few days, I've felt that I've needed to shake things up and do something different. It's why I havn't posted in nearly a week, or comment, or curate. That feels like an age, especially since I'd been developing patterns of logging in every day - but, that had become one of my problems. I felt like I was giving away too much of my time to all my activities on the blockchain, and something had to give.

I had been contemplating cashing everything out and walking away from the blockchain entirely. The Australian dollar is down quite a lot right now, so it felt like it might be a decent time to do just that given HIVE's connection to the USD. I even started powering down my tokens and removing delegations to get ready for this to happen. But I had this niggling feeling that it wasn't quite the right answer either, so in the end, I decided to take a step back from Splinterlands. I was giving that game an awful lot of time and in truth depositing a fair chunk of cash into it every fortnight, along with HBD earnings.

I guess what I'm saying is, my goal of becoming a DOLPHIN was being put on the back-foot. Our mate @arcange publishes daily HIVE STATISTICS, which is where I got the following graphs from. You can check them out here: - and, the truth was, I was getting close to that elusive 5525 HP, but my growth had slowed. I got to 3,000 pretty quickly, and then took my time moving from 3000 to 4,000. I actually moved beyond 4,000 last week - but I wasn't sure I'd reach my goal of hitting the DOLPHIN status in this calendar year.

Looking through Arcange's data then, it seems that there are 1048 accounts currently at DOLPHIN - and, I think I'd like to join their ranks. And today, despite not being a POWER UP DAY (sorry @traciyork, I guess I missed that one, since I've been away from the chain this last week). I decided to put a power up in place which would allow me to really cement myself in this space.

So with this power up in place, of 4525 HIVE, I reckon I can say I've well and truly earned my DOLPHIN status. The only question really is how long will it take to get that ORCA badge loaded?

Thanks for joining me for this celebration; I don't think I'll ever get to do quite such a big power up ever again - but it certainly was fun to push that button! It's always a big decision where to invest, and I'm glad to be investing in this space with you all. Ultimately, my decision to walk away from HIVE altogether came down to this: I actually rather value the friendships and communities I've come across over here. Thanks everyone!

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