Since the day I joined Hive, I've learned a lot of new stuff. That was in August 2021. I was startled to read taskmaster4450's article about the exponential age because I had never seen such a viewpoint before. It appears as though the author is from another planet. Then, from August 2021 to February 2022, I wandered around Hive without realizing the fantastic possibility that this emerging blockchain was offering. Things didn't start making sense until March 2022. Beginning that month, my learning process on Hive has increased significantly. You know learning and applying new ideas isn’t easy, especially for an aging man like me. They say it’s really difficult to teach an old dog new tricks. Nevertheless, I had several first-time experiences since that month. I think that’s the first and major transition that shaped the way how I grew in my understanding of Hive. Participating in LEO Power Up Day (LPUD), buying CUB, joining listnerds.com and @bradleyarrow’s curation trail, and writing about CENT are the new things I learned since that month. That was one year and three months ago. The LeoThreads widespread adoption effort launched on May 1 is at a different stage of development from the growth I mentioned above. The image that comes to mind is a price increase brought on by a significant trend.  [Photo Credit ](https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-person-holding-smartphone-6802042/) My Hive activity has undergone a significant transformation after the release of LeoThreads on https://leofinance.io/ version 2 (Note: I am at a loss for words to characterize the current condition of LeoFinance). The first thing I now do every day is check the threads. Before, it wasn't like this. Naturally, there are drawbacks to this, such as a tendency to overlook important Hive events like HIVE Power Up Day and writing lengthy content. Before the launch of LeoThreads, I have been describing myself as a “treader” though I didn’t make an official announcement about it on social media. My definition of a treader is inspired by a combination of three ideas: walking cautiously, trading, and reading. For non-native English speakers, these two words: “treader” and “threader” might sound the same. The latter refers to microblogging and I love it because its content is not confined to a single category; it is open to all types of content. As such, threads make engagement spontaneous and online learning more easily digestible. Reasons Why I am Bullish on LEO Serving as an alternative to a centralized microblogging platform like Twitter is a good start but not enough. The 10,000 USD prize pool that will be distributed within five days from now somehow made the Leo community excited. However, such excitement is short-term if not matched with a long-term vision of the growth and sustainability of the Leo projects. Except for the above reasons I mentioned such as microblogging providing an avenue for instant conversation and digestible content, as a Web3 alternative, and the 10,000 USD incentive, the additional reasons why I am bullish on LEO are as follows: Last 05 May, I wrote what I believe to be the benefits of making threads. I mentioned there how I agreed with this idea that the bigger transactions on the chain work to the advantage of the Hive network, the Leo tribe, and our tokens. Another reason is related to ad revenue. If the income from advertising will be returned to the LEO token, in such a scenario, all LEO holders win. A third reason would be LeoThreads operating as a communication hub for all the tribes within the Hive network. As such, threads can be an avenue for your content to find a wider audience. Still, another reason is the potential for micro-earnings. We cannot underestimate the power of small things. All big changes in one way or another started with small steps. Closely connected to crypto earning, I think if the recent idea suggested by @taskmaster4450 about the collateralization of the LEO assets will be considered for implementation, we have a solid reason to be exceedingly excited about the future of our platform. Given the fact that the world is in bad need of quality collateral as TM repeatedly argues, I think the LeoFinance can enter that space to fill up such a demand. Above all, I enjoy the fun of threading in connecting to other Hivers, lions, and other tribes. To conclude this post, I agree with @meitanteikudo’s poetical description of threads: a joyful playground, a joyous meeting where everyone’s voice is heard, a friendly tour guide, a vibrant marketplace of perspectives, and even radiant stars that shine brightly in the LeoFinance galaxy. Grace and peace! What is LeoFinance? What is Hive?

For the people who consider themselves nerds. :) Source: OK on youtube https://youtube.com/shorts/BjE5qUXHyuQ?feature=share

 [Photo Credit](Photo%20by%20Daniel%20Torobekov:%20https:/www.pexels.com/photo/lonely-dolphin-in-blue-water-4886378/) On my 56th birthday, I decided to write a post about my Dolphin goal. This birthday post is an article aimed at small players, particularly Hivers from developing nations. Specifically, this is for Minnows out there just like me who decided to reach Dolphin status in years to come. My current HP is 2,103. A Dolphin has a minimum HP of 5,616. I need 3,513 more HP for my account to grow from a Minnow into a Dolphin. How long will it take for a $35.70 monthly savings to accomplish such a goal? And besides, that savings do not only go to HIVE power, but also to LEO and other Hive Engine tokens like SPS, WOO, and GLX. Though relying on such an amount will take a longer period, that’s one of the ways for me to hit my target. Insights from @arcange’s Graph Yesterday, I saw the graph below:  [Source](https://peakd.com/hive-133987/@arcange/hive-statistics-20230422-en) As you can observe, out of 8,957 Minnows, 4,328 have been active so far for the last thirty days. That’s less than 50%. It shows that for the whole month, more Minnows are not posting, commenting, or upvoting. Turning our attention to Dolphins, the data shows a more encouraging result. The number of active accounts is more than twice the size of inactive accounts. Simply observing the different fish categories based on the size of HP, we can say that the higher the status, the more activity we can see. To make the data above more comprehensible, I transferred them into a table: Account Level Total Number of Accounts Inactive Active Plankton 2.43M 2.16M 279,060 Minnow 8,957 4,629 4,328 Dolphin 1,666 514 1,152 Orca 260 55 205 Whale 36 9 27 I am glad to be included among the 4,329 Minnows that remain active on the chain for the whole month. That is a very small number. There is still a huge space for growth in the Hive network in terms of HIVE Power (HP). How I wish to see myself transition into the Dolphin category and be included in that 1,152 active accounts. If the current rate of the growth of my account will be my reference, it means that it will take more or less three years for me to complete my Dolphin goal. Of course, I do not include other variables that might affect the direction of my account such as the volatility of HIVE’s market price and other unexpected incidents and threats. To reach 2,103 HP, took me one year and eight months. 1,440 of them are author rewards and 114 are curation rewards. The remaining 549, I used my savings to buy from the market. Unfortunately, I observe that due to changes in the schedule of my work, my author rewards started to decline these past few months for a lack of time to create content. And not only that, an Hiver particularly a small account owner has to accept the fact that big votes are beyond our control. Since this is the case, I am now thinking of focusing my attention on curation rewards. But for them to become significant, I need to find a way to boost my HIVE Power (HP) and I think except for my monthly savings and curation activity, I can utilize the Hive Engine tokens I own to focus on increasing my HIVE Power (HP). Hive Engine Tokens Update Checking my current token list, I am thinking about how can my Hive Engine tokens help me achieve my Dolphin goal. I think I have to make some adjustments. About CTP, I am having second thoughts. My original goal was to achieve 30,000 staked CTP on listnerds.com. However, after experiencing some difficulty both in staking CTP and in receiving staking rewards on listnerds.com, I decided to shift my attention to HIVE. I think I will stop with the 26,350 CTP Power. As for other Hive Engine tokens, you can see the progress in the table below. I made my last report more than a month ago. Names Previous Current Token Increase % Growth 2023 Goal HP 1,901 2,103 202 10.62% 5,000 SPS 4,047 5,146 1,099 27.15% 10,000 LEO 2,006 2,606 600 29.91% 5,000 SME 420,092 529,427 109,335 26.02% 2,000,000 CTP 26,302 32,601 6,299 23.94% 60,000 WOO 32,081 45,730 13,649 42.54% 100,000 GLX 624.94 1,180 555.06 88.81% 10,000 I achieve more than 50% of my SPS goal. Once the 10,000 goal has been achieved, all SPS staking rewards will go to HIVE. The same thing to LEO, once I achieve the CUB status with 5,000 LEO Power, all LEO that I will earn will go to HIVE. Same as SPS, I am more than halfway through my 1M SME goal. Once I reach that, all SME rewards will go to HIVE. As already mentioned, my CTP stake is enough. All CTP rewards from now on will go to HIVE. As for WOO, my goal is 100,000. Once done, all WOO will be converted to HIVE. Lastly, I am impressed with GLX's performance. It grew by 88.81%. Once I achieve that 10,000 goal, all GLX rewards will go to HIVE. And so that's my plan to achieve my Dolphin status. I will use my monthly savings; will focus on curation activity, and, I will utilize Hive Engine tokens to grow my HIVE Power (HP). Thanks for your time! Grace and peace! What is Hive What is LeoFinance?

[Photo Credit](https://www.pexels.com/photo/fifty-and-hundred-american-dollar-bills-6590646/) Buying HIVE tokens, staking them, creating content, and engaging with the community. These activities are simple but not easy to do. Buying HIVE for instance requires saving. For some countries, that would be common-sense action. But for countries with less than $300.00 salary per month, setting aside $20.00 every payday for saving is quite a challenge. Not unless you believe that Hive will give you a high return in years to come despite the inherent risky character of all types of investment in cryptocurrencies and that includes even the time and money you invested in Hive. Staking too is something new that I only learn here on Hive. Some don’t like the idea of locking their token for a certain period due to FUD. Others prefer to hold their tokens in their liquid form for them to take advantage of sudden price changes and could instantly take their profit in such a trade. I think that is one strategy that I would consider if I have a huge capital to buy HIVE since from time to time some people out there love to pump the price of our token only to see it return to its previous price after a day or two. Creating content at first was easier for me, particularly those Splinterlands-related articles. The last article I wrote for Splinterlands was on 11 January this year. Though steemmonsters upvoted that post, writing an article exclusively for Splinterlands without mentioning other DApps on Hive is a kind of rule that I struggle to keep. Perhaps, that is one reason why I have a low motivation writing for Splinterlands now. I prefer from time to time to write articles that combine the stories of my journey on Hive instead of just focusing on one front end. I think that is ideal for though different decentralized apps on Hive have their specific niche, still, they are all part of one big Hive family. The success of one platform is something to be celebrated by other platforms, not unless of course each tribe wants to advance its own goals without regard for the success of others. Such a spirit promotes polarization and I consider it not healthy for a very young but promising digital country like Hive. Lastly, engaging with the community. I think I should remind myself that Hive has many communities within the larger community. And so, it is better to think of such engagement not with a single but with the diverse communities on Hive. Among the primary tribe tokens in my wallet, I could say that in terms of engagement, it is the CTP tribe that I am most active with, though it is somewhat reduced since January due to my academic pursuit and my new assignment related to my work. Nevertheless, despite my busy schedule, I am still doing my best to complete my 30,000 staked CTP on listnerds.com. As I keep saying, once I am done with that, I will shift my focus to LeoFinance, which I could say is the second tribe that I am more engaged with. My goal in this platform for this year is to grow my stakes to 5,000 LEO stakes. I do believe that all four activities mentioned above are necessary to increase one’s return in the Hive blockchain. I consider thinking of ROI not as a self-serving goal, but as part of the basic reality of life and of being human. We cannot escape economic reality, particularly in the kind of challenges that we are facing now from the hands of the parasitical class. In terms of ROI, I think every Hiver has this aim in mind, to realize such a return after some years. I am not a fan of fast money, of huge returns in the shortest time possible. Observing nature, we see that growth requires time and patience is the most important virtue one must have to succeed in this new world of finance and technology. Grace and peace! What is LeoFinance? What is Hive?

I like VR and Apples coming mixed reality headset seems promising. But I hesitate when I found out the price. 3000 USD is too much! https://thenerdstash.com/apples-vr-headset-will-most-likely-be-expensive/

@NEWAGENERDS we been working

I'm starting to like SoMee more and more everyday. The Devs are doing a fantastic job. I just have a few concerns. Both SoMee and Hive are way to complicated for the average Joe. The people that I've signed up have tons of problems understanding and I iterally have to go to their house to fix issues they are going through???? I don't want to see SoMee and Hive become a platforms that only nerds (as some of us are), can understand. We need to simplify things and I have no clue how we are going to do it. This would be a great question for Phillip.

https://ecency.com/hive-163521/@newagenerds/exploring-the-possibilities-of-drone

https://ecency.com/hive-163521/@newagenerds/exploring-the-possibilities-of-drone

https://ecency.com/hive-163521/@newagenerds/exploring-the-possibilities-of-drone

I feel chess is becoming increasingly difficult, too many nerds popping up ????.. even in beginners online mode it's very hard to win a match. I feel it's pros entering beginners contest to fry us.... Too many nerds..

#Somee the nerds have landed. Are we ready to fly?