First of all I want to wish everyone all the best for 2025!
I hope 2025 will be a good year in good health, with lots of fun and a good year for Hive too.

As I have done in the past months I'm also looking back on how I'm doing on Hive in the past month. As I have stated a few months ago, I have the goal of becoming an Orca on Hive (link) and trying to do the things I can to reach that goal as soon as I can.

I did already change my tactics along the way, but you'll read all about it in this blog if you continue reading.

Date Hive Price Liquid Hive Staked Hive Total Hive Liquid HBD Staked HBD Claimable Total HBD Total calculated in Hive Change Hive Change Dollar

At first I want to share you my current Hive and HBD stats:

Date of measurement	1-1-2025
Current Hive price	0,371
Liquid Hive	2,196
Staked Hive	28386,413
Total Hive	28388,609
Liquid HBD	0,825
Staked HBD	1997,056
Claimable HBD	6,09
Total HBD	2003,971

My Total Hive with the above numbers and the current Hive price would be 33790,1
This is 91,9 Hive less and $34,09 less in dollar value than I had on the 1st of November.
This might not seem very good, but I'll explain this later.

Rewards

In the beginning of December I have been quite active with posting, but December is a busy month with the festivities, so in the last two weeks I wasn't that active. At least not with blogging...
My new Topcomment initiative took a bit of time. With topcomment I'm upvoting quality comments to improve engagement on Hive.

Despite the facts I mentioned above I see my author rewards have increased significantly. I received 330 HP more and 2 more HBD in the past 30 days, compared to November 2024. I think it has something to do with the fact that the payout has a delay of 7 days. I think I'll see a decline of the days between Christmas and New Year next month.

I did keep up with my Curation. I still do 95 or more procent of my voting manually. My curation APR is 9.18% which is quite good. It was 8.43% last time. This resulted in 171 HP, which is alsmost the double of the 90 HP I received last month.
I do expect this to be a bit lower next month because of some increased delegations and the fact that I'm powering down (read on why I'm doing this).

Powering Down & playing with the market

My goal is still to become an Orca on Hive. I want to increase my stake and influence. A few months ago I converted all my HBD to Hive which resulted in a stake of more than 30,000 HP. I did this because the interest rate on HBD savings went down and the price of Hive was just above $0.17. My increased stake inspired me for my goal to become an Orca. I changed my post payout to 100% Hive and kept accumulating.
But then the price of Hive went up a few times. When it went above $ 0.30 I decided to start a power down. A Hive price above $ 0.34 would mean I would receive twice as much HBD for my Hive.

With the liquid Hive of some Power Downs I made some nice trades.
The first one was 3823 Hive at the price of $ 0,3470
This resulted in $1.326,69
The second one was even better with 1550 Hive at $ 0,43 resulting in another $666,51
I've put this HBD back into my HBD savings to get the interest of 15% APR.
Both of these trades have given me back twice as much HBD than I had bought Hive for back in September. Quite a good deal!

My total calculated Hive is lower than what I had last month, but this has all to do with the current price of Hive. The price has been going up and down in the past month and it is, with $ 0.37 quite high at the moment. By making profit of the high prices I try to accumulate more Hive over time.

But before you copy these tactics, be aware there is a risk in doing this. There is a chance that the price of Hive could stay above the current value or even raise more. When this happens, the total Hive value of my stake will keep decreasing. But I have the time. I don't think Hive will stay on this level for ever. Maybe it will go a bit higher, but I don't think it will stay above $ 0.37 forever. And I have the time.

My tactics: Betting on two horses

I've adjusted my 'tactics' over the past month. I'm focussing on having quite a bit of liquid Hive in my account so I can profit from high Hive prices. With trades to HBD I try to increase my HBD stake. I put my HBD into my savings account to profit from the high APR (15%). This will give me some extra liquid HBD every month. Since the HBD retrieval from savings 'only' takes three days I can react to price drops of Hive pretty quickly. So I can use my HBD stake again to buy more Hive when the price drops significantly.
Ultimately I'm trying to have an equal share of Hive and HBD in my account. This will give me room to take profits of the price changes and 'betting on two horses' reduces a bit of risk.
But.... be aware that making profit of price fluctuations is a risk! If you depend on the rewards you have earned on Hive I would advise you not to gamble with these earnings!
Do your own reasearch!

Thanks for reading my blog!

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