Charging into 2026
The beginning of the New Year is a good time to set my SteemIt strategy for 2026.
I bought 5000 STEEM in 2025 to establish my account as a dolphin. For 2026, I want to think about living.
I just tallied up my account holdings. I took advantage of the weak market to raise my coin holdings from 2,498,780 to 6,903,032. Despite this, the USD value of my coin holdings fell from $2,985.54 to $1,364.68.
This is not good.
Rather than just blindly accumulating coins, I need a strategy to slowly sluff off some of my earnings.
My current thoughts are as follow. I realize that I am lucky to get any votes; so I've decided to power up all of my author rewards.
I will sluff off a good portion of my curation rewards. SteemWorld tells me that, as a dolphin, I am earning over 10 STEEM POWER curation rewards a week. HIVE Stats says that I am earning just over 10 HIVE a week in curation rewards. BlurtWallet says that I am earning 26 BLURT POWER in curation rewards.
So, my strategy will be to sell off 10 STEEM, 10 HIVE and 12 BLURT each week. I guess that will be about $0.90 + $0.65 + $0.015 or $1.56 a week. I am also earning a little from my Hive Engine investment.
I suspect that the market will see some profit taking and adjustments at the beginning of the year. After that I hope to see growth in the cybercoin blogging community.
Again, I am powering up 100% of my author income. I am powering down and spending some of my curation rewards. I think that this is the best way to take an income while continuing to grow the account.
With this design, I will be able to charge into 2026.
The Picture
I asked night cafe for an image of a horse rider charging into 2026 to get the image above.
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Happy New Year from Canada
Welcome I can see you followed the same path if many of us to drop hive like a bag of hot potatoes due to downvoting nonsense. It’s a bit quiet here but much better. It’s amazing to not have to sit and worry about posts. Pure freedom.
I was a fan of hive-watchers and steemcleaners when they were protecting the platform from actual abuse like identity theft and plagiarism.
Now that it is just whales "protecting" the rewards pool so that the whales get a bigger slice of the pie, the down vote feature has turned from good to evil.
They never have been the whales and ocd crew have been abusing their power since 2017 at least you just didn’t see it as publicly. I was in a private chat group ( a spin off from steemit chat) with them in 2017 they just picked out newbies to downvote and take to rep 0 for fun. Steemit would have had 10 x at least more users had they not driven so many off. Obviously I didn’t last long in it as I called them out. Maybe they just didn’t like someone’s opinion, the way they looked, that they couldn’t speak English, that they didn’t listen to their advice and they would joyfully take them down to 0 and in public make up some random reason why, versus trying to help them and guide them to use the platform. They took great delight in it behind the scenes. They also chased a bunch of quite big instagrammers off at one point. I can only assume they don’t want the platform to be big and they want it to be a smallish selection of people who will happily act as minions and do everything they say without challenging it. Notice how they don’t like anyone powering down but them. They can do it but for anyone else it’s a reason to downvote. It’s essentially a kind of pyramid scheme really. Anyone who doesn’t just fall in line needs to go.
I didn’t realise just how big they were till later on when it all became more public. Many of those accounts it was found were started before steemit went live to the public too.