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RE: It's Back! Fortune Cookie Fortune
That sounds like quite the adventure. For the most part I try to stick to the main roads. And as much as I don't want to depend on Google, their maps are normally correct. Follow the directions.
I had been contemplating leasing out my SP so I could get some SBD in return for it. It has been tough to not be able to get a return for my investment as a direct result of my work. I've decided against it for now though.
It was. I just remember it being a lot of winding forest road and that we were in the car for a long time and my grandmother wanting to say something but never getting around to it. At least not in front of us. :)
Man, we're so spoiled. There's getting fewer and fewer reasons to get lost. Back in the day, it was almost a reverse badge of honor, and don't you dare stop to ask anyone! Those days don't come back. :)
It's strange, but I've never thought about leasing out my own SP. I should, but it's like, I need it! I need it for the time being to be able to leave $0.03 on comments and more on posts. I'm not sure where I will finally be comfortable with it, but maybe when I'm in the mid-Dolphin range, 20,000-30,000 SP. I might get used to dropping $1 on people though. :)
Good ol' Grandma and not wanting to start a fight in front of the kids.
I mainly use my maps app to check traffic, but every once in a while I use it to know here I'm going. Mostly if I know where the place is, I can get there without help.
I've never had any issue asking for help or directions. If I don't know where I am or where I'm going, I ask. I'd rather get there sooner and get to enjoy whatever the event is rather than stick to some hubris or machismo, and not get to be there. Never made sense to me.
Hey, I wouldn't mind if you got to the point where you could drop $1 votes. That would be great! Although at that point, Steem is probably over $100, so we'll all be dropping $1 votes. Ha ha.
It's just another way to increase your stake. I never really considered leasing SP because unless you're using it to boost your own account, it's not really going to benefit you. It would make more sense to buy the Steem and power it up so you have it in your account to grow (by your Mvests growing). I'd rather have a smaller thing that I own than a much larger thing that I lose after a little while.
Who knows, maybe Steem will drop down to $0.01 and we'll all be able to pick up a bunch for cheap. Then when it rises back to to $20, we'll be sitting pretty, dropping major votes on everyone. :D
Such would be nice. Right now, we keep having exchanges breaking out with different prices, jumping around, inflating, deflating, dancing and spinning around like tops.
It seems to me that there would be some major issues if STEEM went back to $0.01, but yeah, we could all load up, with the hope that our loading up would actually make the value rise.
I think I can make dolphin status by the end of 2020, sooner if I actually manage to invest more. But then, I'm hoping STEEM prices will at least be in the teens by then. I also have this sinking feeling in the back of my mind that it's just going to keep treading water.
I didn't like stopping for directions. Inevitably I'd run into the one guy who didn't know anything but would try anyway. Use to drive my wife crazy when I wouldn't stop, but she wanted me to do it in a left hand turn lane at a busy intersection with a person coming at us from the crosswalk.
"Hey, you! Yeah, you! Come here! Do you know how to get to Fresno?!"
—glenalbrethsen
I don't know who or how, but I think the markets are being manipulated. I'm not sure if the goal is to push it up to cash out, or down to buy in, but there seems to be weird stuff going on. When you have 40% of the market volume at 40% higher price than everywhere else, something is up.
Hey, I'd throw down $100 if the price of Steem dropped to $0.01. If it was just dropping and there wasn't news about someone running off with the master keys or something, why not? That would buy me 10,000 Steem and I could be an instant dolphin. Heck, if I had lots of extra money that hadn't been spent on silver, I could spend $500 and become and instant Orca. That would be nice.
I would be impressed if you could make dolphin by the end of 2020 without extra investment. It seems the returns are rather slow. Also, if the price of Steem rises to the teens, it will be much more difficult to get rewards. I have a feeling you're right about it treading water.
You have to be strategic when you ask for directions. Like don't do it from a person in a crosswalk. They're trying to get across the street before they have to flee for their life. Just pull over somewhere and ask someone in a convenient location. Heh
Believe me, I'll be impressed if I'm able to make dolphin by the end of 2020, but it's something to shoot for and I'm a third of the way there. Supposedly, earning rewards is supposed to be easier the higher SP you have, so I'll be putting that to the test.
Something weird is happening right now with STEEM. The average price was at $1.80 just twenty minutes ago and now it's above $2.35.
So, I agree, someone is manipulating it on Bithumb still, and they're accounting for more than 80% of the volume there, too, while the rest of the cryptos are just kind of going sideways a little.
There are incidental ways that having more SP helps you earn more. Like if you have more, then higher SP people are supposed to want to connect with you and vote for you because you can vote them back at similar levels. A lot of the other ways are things like joining voting groups, selling your vote, powering down your SP so you can get liquid Steem and then using that to self-vote.
Other than that, I'm not sure how having more would get you more. Well, there's the natural growth, but 2% gains aren't a whole lot. It would take you 36 years just to double your investment, and that's assuming that the rate of growth stayed the same.
Not sure what's happening with the markets. I'll have to look into it more.
Did you include higher curation rewards? You're supposed to get those. And what about rewards going to the higher rewarded content? Since most folks who end up on trending are higher SP, because they're the ones who can afford to pay the bid bots exorbitant amounts to get up there, or have the friends to circle vote, or the high self-upvote to actually make a difference, then it stands to reason that higher SP gets more rewards.
I didn't include higher curation in my calculations. Most of my votes are done at the 0 mark so I don't get curation. That will change though once the new hardfork comes out as I'd rather keep the curation than give it to the biggest earners. It's a bummer I won't be able to keep giving it to my favorite authors, but that's how things go sometimes.