The irrational pull of base 10 milestones

I've got quite a lot of Hive: almost 79 000 to be not that precise, which is more than most, too much maybe compared to the amount of other tokens and widgets I hold.

So I had promised myself I wouldn't focus on buying Hive for the foreseeable future, rather just let the HP part of my rewards accumulate at its own pace and either keep the HBD part in savings or spend it on some other picks on offer from around this wondrous crypto wonderland.

HOWEVER, now I'm at 79 000 HP, well, 80 000 is kind of calling, and I'm 'unlucky' enough to have just tipped to 79K half way through the month from 78K so now I'm thinking '80K Hive by September', it's the lure of the next base-10 milestone, this always happens.

I did buy some HIVE when HBD pumped a little, the price looked favourable but NOW is probably the worst time to buy as HBD comes back down and Hive seems to be going up.... Hmmm, minor quandary!

It's only a temporary thing (and probably only a matter of about 100 Hive) once I hit that 80K milestone I'll have no problem slowing down a little until I reach 90K, but i imagine when that happens the shiny of the 100 000 Hive milestone could well put me into Hive buy-mode.

And on LEO I've got into the habit of only ever powering up in 50 LEO chunks, that half-way to base-10 tick-over point has some meaning.

It's silly really, it makes no sense, it is pure mathematical conditioning. I wonder if I had pursued Math beyond GCSE if I'd have got over this, given that I would have spent more time (I imagine) working outside of the base-10 system?

I guess it's never too late to adapt and explore and maybe just get over this silly bias towards these base 10 milestones!

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