There was a Matt Rosen before Splinterlands! There really was! I have proof! 😘 And he was very dedicated to the chain he was on and what it represented but represents no more. 😉 Luckily, Hive took over some of those attributes and Matt (and Splinterlands) are here now.
One of the other days I came across one of his early apps on the legacy chain, adapted for and maintained on Hive by @nuthman.
It's a simple app, which looks like this:
On it, you can watch your (or anyone else's) HIVE Power increase in real time. You might wonder why would you need that.
Well, it's fun to watch that HP grow. And it grows, because 15% of the HIVE inflation goes to HIVE stakeholders and is distributed at every block (every 3 seconds) without any transaction that tells you that your HP increases thanks to it.
For example, when I look at my account (including the delegation from the staking account), my account growth every 3 seconds is by around 0.0003 HIVE, so 4 digits after the decimal point.
It seems little, but at this rate, it means 0.0003x20 = 0.006 HP per minute, 0.006x60 = 0.36 HP per hour, 0.36x24 = 8.64 HP per day, and a whooping 8.64x365 = 3153.6 HP per year.
So, pay attention to the passive rewards on your HIVE Power! They add up!
This may even give birth to some new kind of goals related to HIVE Power. In my case, for example, I might want to reach 3 digits of HP adjustment per block instead of 4 digits, meaning 0.001 HP every 3 seconds instead of 0.0003 HP now. That wouldn't be an easy target to reach. I'll be an orca well before reaching such a goal.
Have a look at your own account and see how it grows from this HP interest in real time, although they don't call it interest.