You might call it "robbing Peter to pay Paul" but on the last day of February I sold a few of my precious CTPSB tokens to buy 18,000 BBH so as to hit my 2025 target of 20,000 BBH! That also gives me the ability to give away 20 BBH tips per day, which aligns with my intention to be more engaging and post more comments and tips.
What about my target of 800 CTPSB in 2025? Well, Bitcoin might be in the doldrums right now, but I still expect the bull rally to resume later this year, and I'm hoping to be able to take advantage of any new Bitcoin highs to sell off a bit of BTC so I can achieve my more ambitious Hive targets, including buying up a few hundred CTPSB...
As Louis XIV was wont to say, "We shall see."
Meanwhile, now I've hit my BBH target, I can sell off any surplus BBH to buy more of my other target tokens. My next target inside Hive-Engine is the ALIVE token as I want to speed up my progress towards my ALIVE / ALIVEM liquidity pool target of 500 shares.
Liquidity Pools
Speaking of liquidity pools, I made slow but steady progress in growing each of my target pools in February. However, although number of my SPS / SwapHive pool shares has grown, the number of SPS in the pool has declined.
Delegations
As for my delegation targets, I want to keep on growing my Ecency delegation in March.
Now that I've discovered the value of Ecency and Ecency Perks I'm hopeful that I will see a boost in my curation earnings which will, in turn, speed up my progress towards my HIVE Power target for the year.
HIVE Power and HBD
My most ambitious target is the one I set for HBD. I'm making good progress thanks to curation and monthly interest payments, but in the end, I'm looking for more Bitcoin highs during the year to help me hit 12,000 HBD. Right now, swapping 1% of a Bitcoin just around the previous ATH for a few hundred dollars worth of HBD looks quite smart, don't ye know! 😎
Anyway, here's the state of play on Saint David's Day 2025:
| Crypto Asset | 31st December 2024 | 1st February 2025 | 1st March 2025 | 2025 Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIVE Power | 7,631 | 7,702 | 7,765 | 10,000 |
| Hive Backed Dollar (HBD) | 5,066 | 5,213 | 5,288 | 12,000 |
| BBH | 10,265 | 10,595 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
| BBHO staked | 1,346 | 1,821 | 2,132 | 20,000 |
| CTPSB | 581 | 542 | 522 | 800 |
| LEO staked | 3,506 | 3,558 | 3,571 | 10,000 |
| ALIVE / ALIVEM pool | 24 shares (477 ALIVE) | 36 shares (721 ALIVE) | 47 shares (985 ALIVE) | 500 shares (approx. 10,000 ALIVE) |
| LEN / LENM pool | 216 shares (1,284 LEN) | 231 shares (1,390 LEN) | 242 shares (1,448 LEN) | 500 shares (approx. 3,000 LEN) |
| SPS / SwapHive pool | 100 shares (772 SPS) | 115 shares (1004 SPS) | 127 shares (977 SPS) | 1,300 shares (approx. 10,000 SPS) |
| PWR / SwapHive pool | 0 shares | 2 shares (2 PWR) | 6 shares (6 PWR) | 500 shares (approx. 500 PWR) |
| ChessBrothersPro delegation | 2,372 HP | 2504 HP | 2509 HP | 3,500 HP |
| Ecency delegation | 0 HP | 335 HP | 500 HP | 3,000 HP |
| WorldMappin delegation | 751 HP | 1002 HP | 1,004 HP | 1,000 HP |
Other February Achievements Somewhat Worthy of Note
Here are three non-crypto things I achieved in Feb:
- I hit a new deadhanging record of 83 seconds.
- I grew my Fit50sAndBeyond YouTube channel from 2 (of whom I was one) to 9 subscribers: https://www.youtube.com/@Fit50sAndBeyond
- I completed 78 chess problems to reach problem 156 out of 357 problems in Neistadt's "Magic World of Chess" that I blogged about here:
@hirohurl/my-east-german-chess-challenge-for-2025-together-with-bittersweet-memories-of-times-past
Not too bad, I suppose!
Cheers!
David Hurley
#InspiredFocus