A couple of days ago I managed to resolve a quandary I had been contending with ever since joining Hive. How do I reward people more generously than my small stake will allow? So I made a pledge to donate 5-10% of all my post payouts to rewarding other peoples' posts and comments with tips.
These tips are effectively doubling up as votes, VIPS if you like, but it's a useful function for people in my position who are relatively new to the platform, or for those with a small stake that can't give out a generous vote.
I have now implemented my idea. However, it got me thinking. Ideally I would like to place that 5-10% funds in a separate part of the wallet but still have immediate access to them. So the savings option built into the wallet does not help me as it takes three days to drawn down funds from savings. Clearly powering up these funds won't help me either. So what do I do to separate my new tip fund from my general Hive balance?
Well this got me thinking, wouldn't it be great to have a separate area of the wallet that can be used to separate funds for different purposes in the form of a savings jar, or in my case a tip jar. The main point being to have a separate jar where you could place your Hive liquid and ringfence these funds for specific purposes. That way it doesn't all get mixed up in one balance.
You probably have noticed that a lot of the online banks and even traditional banks now offer a savings jar option, some offer more than one. It's a neat way of managing your money actually. I don't see why this could not be considered as a serious upgrade to the Hive wallet. I'm sure many others would benefit from having this option also and would be pleased to see this additional functionality in the wallet.
What do you guys reckon? Any witnesses out there who like this idea?
Peace!