Another milestone reached: 10,000 Hive earned through curation only

Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!

It has been a while since I shared some of my Hivean milestones with you the last time so here I am coming with one today :) And that´s actually a pretty big one!
According to my HiveTasks stats profile, I just reached the long awaited milestone of 10,000 Hive earned only through curation earlier today:

I used to be quite efficient as a curator before the last hard fork that introduced the so called flat curation where every curator that upvotes a post within the first 24 hours after the publication gets the same (proportional) curation reward calculated only from the size of his or her stake (Hive Power). Before the hard fork, the curation rewards could vary greatly, depending on several factors.

Another thing that has made me a less efficient curator lately was the partial power down that I needed to do. I withdrew approximately 1/3 of my then Hive Power, which was something I only did with a heavy heart (it was also my very first power down here on Hive) but I really had to do that to be able to continue being a fulltime Hiver.

So yeah, with all of this being said, my curation rewards are not as big now as they used to be but I still enjoy my curation role here on Hive very much and it always makes me happy when I find an undervalued post by a newbie, upvote that post, leave some nice comment for the author and later, they stop by to thank me and say it meant a lot to them :)

Let me wrap this post up by saying a huge THANK YOU to all of you guys, whose amazing posts I have had the privilege to curate. I wouldn´t be celebrating this milestone without you and your content ;)

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