Ok its another month and I am getting this out in good time could of probably got it out on the days but stress with some other problems got in the way and I have also been busy trying to catch up with some things since visiting my father.

But anyway so here we are now month 22, how are you getting on with your own goals?

I mean look its like already half the year of 2018 gone by already... argh just wow!
I think this month it maybe preaty obvious I have not done much better then last month, the price as basically been falling since then reaching $1.15 but atleast the markets seem to be greener now, not only that but I have not been very active due to visiting my father.

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So its now already been 10 months since my very first Steemit.com birthday.. wow I cant believe it will be my 2nd year on Steemit in only 2 more months time! Crazy..

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In November I will never forget the amazing experience at Steemfest 2 ( thanks to @roelandp for putting this together)
In December I went to a Steemit supper club hosted by @allasyummyfood

February I had the opportunity to attend a Steemit meeting in London hosted by @redrica, @ultravioletmag and @teodora it was definitely one of the best meetings so far, the music was loud at times but this didn't stop us getting to know each other (but many of us did lose our voice's the following day lol)
Lastly in April I was at the London Cryptocurrency show which had around 50 Steemians attending and some great speakers were there representing Steem in the UK.

Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to go to Cyprus nor to the 2nd Steemit supper club this was down to not being able to get the time off work and the required funds.

In 2018 from day one Steem and SBD had been erupting and going record breaking crazy, this was a huge shock to many experts and newbies alike it was one amazing start to the year the price then settled abit in between its highs at around the $3 mark while Steem as been lower since then even hitting $1.15 with the recent price drops, the crypto markets were suffering in general.

Moving Forward With New Hope And Opportunity!

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The London Cryptocurrency Show

At The London Cryptocurrency Show

And here we are now in July 2018 I still have so much to write about from the things that took place back at steemfest 2 and I honestly thought I was one of the only people that felt that way but I have heard some other Steemians say they feel the same way, so perhaps look out for those possibly still coming, that is if I get the time needed as I got a back-log of stuff I wanted to write about so I can clear out my emails and seeing that I realise that probably I will never get to that material from Steemfest2.

Some of you maybe also thinking what's going on with me why have I stopped writing as much?

This is not because I got tired of Steemit or got lazy but I have had extra hours at work and there as been alot more comments from you guys, which keep me busy, I hope to write more again in future and to be honest I have started doing some things a little differently so hopefully you may have already noticed some extra posts popping up here and there.

Anyway doing these monthly reports help me stay in check, plus I have heard from you guys that the data can help out some newbies get an idea on what to expect with the Steemit.com platform.

But before going into month 22's results "This" especially for the newbies can be helpful, let me show you a very quick recap of my first Steemit year.

Month 1 📅

Month 11-12 📅

And there you have it 12 months of Steeming earned me....

2.784 Power
727 Followers
And a reputation of 64.1
Yes I realise these aren't the most amazing results you were probably expecting but for someone who didn't bring in a previous fan base or aided by any of the whale's or part of any inner circle I guess they aren't bad results.
They definitely aren't the best results, but they also aren't anywhere near the worst on here.

Ok so now you have seen the results of a whole full year on Steemit.com and what you can realistically expect from someone in my situation, we now move on and focus on to this month's results.

📅 For month 22 - 15/07/2018 the results are..

So these results do surprise me because I expected less, last month 87-SP this month was less at 75 I honestly expected not even that as I been away so I am actually happy with the result.

As for followers strangely after gaining the last of the four (250) followers badge people suddenly started joining but soon after it started moving really slowly, this shows especially this time round as last time I gained over 200 followers this time not even 100 but this does not bother me as I rather not have randoms join me.

4 months ago the thing that surprised me the most as it never happened before was my reputation had not moved at all, lol but this month again we managed to get up a notch but I am just waiting for when it will happen again hehe.

Other STATS 📊

Apparently when I last checked there are now around 1.077.870 Steemit.com users yes that is correct perhaps you haven't heard yet but we are now way over 1 million users
Anyway so when I last checked my rankings of "steem power" about 5 months ago I was around position #2106 but last time I checked the sites were having some issues and I got the results of #933.390 lol.
Now when I lasted checked I am around #2815 which is much more accurate now.

Most Steemit gains score? 👊

I had a post that made me just over $50 the first month I signed on, and that's when I saw it! The Steemit.com potential!
But would you believe I never beat that reward record for a whole year! Yes that's right meaning it was only on month 13 that I finally beat my score from all the way back in month 1, how insane is that!?
While its sounds insane you must remember that the price of Steem on month 1 for me was over $4.00 !! Which as now been beaten this year's 2018 January at over $7.00! Anyway my new high score to beat is $94.00 which was from month 13.

Steem Power 👊

My most successful Steem Power post was actually back in month 7 when I had one post make me 271 power!

My highest post so far on votes? 👨

The most amount of votes I managed on a single post so far was 213, but that post only made me $8.60

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Followers 👨👨👨👨

I found another dead followers tool it also seems to have its issues sometimes but says that around 1282 of you are apparently still active so if you are there please dont forget to give me a upvote and let me know you are still alive in the comments below, you guys are all missing out on upvotes from myself I mean you just never know I might check out your blog out and upvote you back.

I am also now aiming to gain the "2500 followers badge" which requires for me to gain 500 new followers, this will be the hardest followers challenge so far.

Anyway to my active but supportive followers I want to thank you all for your support so far, as of course remember the more power you offer me, the more I can give back to the community when I vote you back, check out the wizards badge for my curation level below, also your upvoted Steem power gets locked when you vote as I have also not powered down helping the price of Steem rise.

I also want to thank you guys for helping me get to SteemFest2 last year, I still owe abit of money back for the trip but I will get there, my next targets will be up soon but right now Bella my cat is really unwell so any upvotes are going towards her care.

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Any Other notes?

Yes Lastly

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Please dont think your votes aren't worth anything or don't count because they really really do.

Another thing I will add is please vote more on those who are actually active on Steemit.com and have under 4000 steem power and also to those "who are not powering" down.
Basically the more people we have over 4000 power the more people will earn in the future as there are too many in power who just vote for their inner circle or who are not active.

The downfall is the powerful circle jerking when it comes to votes and not enough whales are voting on the minnows and dolphins, creating a very predictable rewards distribution.
This will be fixed probably with oracles but it could also make earning more competitive and difficult for those who do not have a huge active following to bring onto Steemit, this could indeed be worrying meaning you will probably earn less then you do now but its something we will have to wait and see.

We also dont have as many whales voting anymore this seems to be because they are trying to use less time consuming ways for using their power making Steemit a more developers support type of a site, this could change with SMT's but honestly I still hope people will create content on Steemit in the future and get paid something more then a few penny's for their efforts.
Btw I am also not having a dig at the whales I am saying we need more people who are actually active and curating and who have some decent power behind them, so vote now and help me make this happen.