Prologue
This is the second time that I participate in the Hive-Power-Up-Day ( #hpud ) - before that, I just strictly powered up 25% of my HBD earnings with every conversion. But I finally found a way to get HIVE more or less directly out of Ecuador, using Binance, and that kind of changed things.
Though the idea is to still power up around 25% of the 50% of my earnings, leading to growing my stack with 62,50% of my income, while the rest goes into Splinterlands - which is still the way to go for me. Same goes for the money I now get directly into the HIVE system, it gets converted into DEC or SPS eventually to buy new cards. More so now, as Conflicts are around the corner and I really, really want some of those archons so I can keep competing.
How's the account doing?
Pretty good, in my opinion. After the last HPUD, on June 1st, I was at 2852 HP. After today, I'm at 3527 HP, so I grew the account by 675 HP or 23%. Beaufiful!
Of that, I actively powered up 172 HP, so my "clean" HP earnings are 503 HIVE, with the same amount in form of HBD - a total of 1006 HIVE, currently worth $195. Wow. That's 30% of a minimum wage here in #ecuador. By writing.
This is really good. HIVE as become a hobby of mine, and I'm probably spending too much time here. But as long as everything else is working out, I'm fine with that. And, if everything fails, I can take out the HBD via Binance now. But I hope I'll never have to.
SPS
Oh my! What a month! I made my goal of 150k SPS way too early, so now I have to go for a new one. Without buying (which I currently am...), I want to be at 175k by December.
I staked a total of 5,700 SPS in June, and I have 5 months left until the beginning of December. Of the 5,700 SPS, 4,390 SPS were organic and 1310 purchased on the market. That would bring me up to a total of 21,950 SPS earned until the beginning of December. Close call! But I'll up my game.
DEC
Thanks to renting out a lot of cards in June, my rent-income went up to a staggering 6,130 DEC. I also made a profit from selling resources from land, adding up to 1,620 DEC. That's a wonderful income of 7,750 DEC, of which 3,260 DEC was spent on Tournaments (in which I won the equivalent of 10,420 DEC), so my net-positive on DEC was 4,490 DEC. That is quite up from the 1,440 DEC in May 2025.
Land
According to my files, I did add to my Land-Stakes, though. Almost 13,000 DEC went to be staked on Land, and almost 1,700 DEC has been added to the Liquidity-Pools, together with the same amount worth in resources. I'm not sure yet how I will plot that out, but I will. Probably by taking the data out of what the pages give me, and keep a record.
Although my Dark-Energy-Pool (aka staked DEC) "only" went up to 80k, my PP went up significantly.
Luckily, I did a post about Land at the end of May, so here's the comparison:
Only 14k more DEC staked, but the productivity is up 26,650 Points! That's almost a 1:2 ratio, and that is quite efficient. I'm happy with that.
How? Buy buying cards with a low CPC (Card-Productivity-Coefficient). That's working out really nicely so far, though I spent way, way too much on new cards for lands.
According to my log book, it's been $320 from credits. We'll see how that will turn out!
Conclusion
This is what 2025 looks like so far in a table:
51,350 DEC equals around $46 at the moment, thanks to low DEC and SPS prices. Which is good, as I can now buy more for less. Especially the Alchemy Packs are calling...
If the log-prediction is right, I should make 60,000 DEC in December - but that will depend a lot on how I play and manage my resources. I think I can beat that. I will certainly try.
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