The other day I was thinking back to that time many of us remember several years ago when Hive was over $3 per token. With the pump in BTC at the beginning of this week, it doesn't take too much to imagine that Hive hitting $3 could maybe just maybe happen again. In addition to that, if you had a chance to sit in on the "X" townhall the other day, there is definitely a lot to be excited about with Hive.
I remember, I took a screenshot of my Hive wallet when the price was over $3 per token. It was the first time my account had ever topped the six figure mark and I knew it wouldn't last, so I wanted to capture it for posterity.
As I was reminiscing on that the other day, I got wondering if there is a tool online that can show you the historic values of your HP. Hivestats.io can show you as far back as 30 days, but it doesn't go beyond that. Since I recently took a dive into Python coding, I thought the answer might be there.
Before I got started, I learned a new bit of coding with the help of @steevc. I added it to my HiveMute program that you can find on my Github here. Basically I just added some code so that if you enter a Hive account that doesn't exist, it gives you a message stating that instead of a bunch of text saying there is an error in your code.
After that, I dived into trying to find a solution for my other issue. As you might know, Beem is deprecated, but I decided to use it anyway. I had to turn to @steevc for a little help again, but eventually I had a program that could list my vests and then convert my vests to HP. I know, this is probably pretty simple for most of you, but I am learning.
From that point forward, it was just a matter of using the timestamp function to have it show the historic value. I wanted to do something like 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 120 days, etc back until the account was created. At the very least back until the fork happened.
For some reason though, my numbers aren't working out. It correctly shows 65,800 as my current HP, but when I go back 30 days it is listing it as 62,000 something. Hivestats lists my HP 30 days ago as almost 64,000. It gets worse though. When I go back 60 days, it is listing my HP as only about 100 less than 30 days ago. 90 days back gives similar results.
I think there is either an issue with Beem, or I need to pull in historic values of Hive from using the CoinGecko Python libraries (pycoingecko) to get more accurate results.
I'm going to try doing the same thing with lighthive to see if it's possible and if it is, I can hopefully get better results. At the very least, the developer of lighthive is actually still around and I might be able to get some answers.
I should point out, the tool that @nuthman recently revived is pretty cool for seeing how your account is growing in real time. I almost thought about reaching out to him to see if he could add something to show the info I am looking for. Then I figured why not try myself. If you aren't already giving a witness vote to @nuthman, you should definitely do that sooner rather than later!
Searching for Silver
After APMEX changed their policy and required that you had to spend more than $200 to get free shipping on their items, I have been looking for a new place to buy silver. It's not that I buy silver regularly, but when I do, I don't want to get nickled and dimed for shipping and handling costs.
I was pretty excited when @coinjoe told me about the Monument Metals site and I was really digging this Aztec Calendar Silver round that they have on sale right now. Then I noticed the message that says "Free Shipping on orders $199 or more".
Ugh!
It's starting look like shipping and handling is just going to be a fact of life unless I drop a ton of money on Silver at once. If I were buying Gold it wouldn't be that big of a deal given the current price but I'm looking to spend maybe $150 on silver tops, so I am likely going to have to eat the costs.
There are a couple coin and bullion stores close to where I live. I was talking to @dbooster last night and it is possible I might need to just go visit them and see what they have to offer. If I don't like the vibe, I can always leave and buy online like I was going to in the first place.
I'll have to see if I can carve out some time for that.
Pixel 8 Pro
The battery life on my One Plus 9 Pro has been on a gradual decline over the past couple of months. In addition to that, I somehow managed to crack the glass on the back of the phone surrounding the camera lenses. It didn't impact the ability to take photos, but it still bugged me that it was there.
Luckily, my work pays for my phone, and thanks to government contracts, I was able to upgrade with an $800 credit towards a new phone. It's been a while since I owned my Pixel 2, but I absolutely loved that phone. I was interested in getting a Pixel 7 Pro, but when I asked T Mobile about it, they said they were out of stock.
Turns out it was probably because the Pixel 8 was going to be released in just under a month. I decided to stick it out and wait until the middle of October for the 8 to be released. As soon as it was, I had my order placed.
My 8 Pro arrived last week and I am still getting the hang of it. For the first day I didn't have a case for it, so I was hesitant to do much of anything with it. Now I am getting more familiar with it. I haven't really taken any photos with it, so I don't know how that is going to go, but I hope to fix that this weekend.
I did notice that the new phone they sent me only has 128 GB of storage and my old one had 256. That could become problematic down the line. Especially given the fact that the Pixel 8 Pro has a 50 Megapixel camera in it. I already uninstalled Diablo Immortal to help free up some space.
I did notice that Google has really improved the process of transferring your data from one phone to the other. Kudos to them for that.
Back in the day you could move your text messages, but you had to use a separate SMS app to backup and restore any photos that had been sent to you or you had sent out. That isn't the case anymore. All of that moves over pretty seamlessly with the new upgrade process.
That's one thing I always felt like Apple did a good job of and I am happy to see that Google is following suit. I'm looking forward to getting more familiar with this phone and really putting it through its paces.
ZING
Finally, I wanted to talk really quickly about the ZING token that is being dropped by the Holozing team with one of the most notable members being @acidyo. If you have been holding POSH tokens in your Hive-Engine Wallet, you may have ZING tokens that can be claimed on the site I listed above.
They are given to you fully staked, this allows you to start earning the staking rewards right away.
Of course there are other ways you can earn the token as well, but I didn't want anyone who has POSH in their wallet to miss out on the airdrop.
That's all I've got for this week. Check back next week as I continue highlighting my recent trip to Vermont!
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