My Hive Goals (Week 40, 2023)

This is a short sum-up table with the state of my goals in easier TLDR form. The table has only a general overview, with details expanded in the post.

Current State/Other Selection Criterion	Goals Matching the Criterion
Ongoing	5 (HP + HBD Savings, LEO Staked, Comments Made, DEC Saved 2 - Stage 2, Cards for Staking on Land - Stage 2)
Main Goals Completed	0
Main Goals Missed	0
Completed Goals	4 (DEC-B Saved, DEC Saving 2 - Stage 1, Cards for Staking on Land - Stage 1 & 1.5)
Missed Goals	1 (DEC Saved 2 - Stage 3)
Main goals	3 (HP + HBD Savings, LEO Staked, Comments Made)
Goals	2 (Cards for Staking on Land, DEC Saved 2)
New Goals	2 (Cards for Staking on Land, DEC Saved 2)
Increased Goals	3 (HBD target for HP+HBD Main Goal - twice, DEC-B Saved)
Decreased Goals	2 (Comments Made, Cards for Staking on Land - Stage 1)
Goals: Pushed Deadlines Further	2 (DEC Saved 2 - Stages 2 & 3)

I include a link to the initial goal-setting post for 2023, for reference, if needed.

HIVE continues to have a good momentum started before Hivefest and probably with the conference season. Its price has been going up slowly but steadily in US Dollars, but also repeatedly attempting to break a resistance in bitcoin, which is interesting at this time. When many seem to undermine our efforts to show the world what we have here on Hive by ignoring or obscuring us, that's something they can't do at these conferences. They can't hide us there since our money is good, especially in this bear market, and apparently, at least some people find us interesting...

This is the chart of HIVE-BTC.

It would have been great to break that resistance, but the crypto market is red today, and we seem to be back in a potential range.

For HIVE-USDT, the chart is more interesting, as it broke the 30 cents resistance which now acts as a support. Let's see if it holds.

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For me, this is the week when I reached and broke two round number thresholds for my main goals: 20,000 LEO staked (I have 20,050) and 16,000 comments (I have 16,057). While none of them are my year-end goals, they are round numbers, and we can't miss any opportunity to celebrate intermediary wins until the final victory. 😁

Let's see what has changed since last week regarding my Hive goals.

HIVE Power (HP) + HBD in Savings Main Goal

My staked HIVE reached 35,606 HP this week. I am on target with the PUM challenge for October. I decided to increase my HBD savings a little this week, instead of buying more HIVE, so now I have 190 HBD in savings.

Here's what the evolution of the HP+HBD goal looks like (unless we have some price recovery by the end of the year, chances are to miss this main goal):

Here's where I'd add some information regarding the amount of HBD/HIVE per week I'd need until the end of the year, but given the recent evolution listing this makes absolutely no sense.

LEO Staked Main Goal

I staked another 250 LEO this week - over 2x76 LEO purchased (see the reason why twice in the last section) - and reached 20,050 LP. My powerup from this week is a little above the needed amount per week.

I currently need to stake 205 LEO weekly (down from 208 last week) to reach the target by the year-end.

Splinterlands Land Expansion Main Focus

Land expansion's main focus extends throughout 2023. Unless I change the strategy, it will be the only main focus / main goal for Splinterlands in 2023. But there will be several 1-3 months goals.

First Land-Related Goal: DEC/DEC-B Saved - Completed

This goal is COMPLETED.

Deadline (passed): When DEC-B offer runs out, either because all were sold out or because the time limit was reached (April 9th).

Target to consider the goal completed: 1.5 mil. DEC-B saved. Done!

DEC Saved 2 Goal - Stage 1 Completed

[COMPLETED] Deadline stage 1: June
Deadline stage 2: extended to the end of 2023 from the launch of Land 1.5
Deadline stage 3: Postponed to 2024 (considered missed for 2023)

Target to consider the goal completed:

• stage 1: 1.2m DEC (COMPLETED)
• stage 2: 2.2 DEC (1m additional DEC)
• stage 3: 5 DEC (2.8m additional DEC)

Current situation: 1.2m DEC (liquid) and 117k DEC x 2 = 234k DEC in SPS:DEC diesel pool.

Note: Extended Stage 2 to the end of 2023 and Stage 3 to 2024 (stage 3 considered missed).

New Land-Related Goal: Cards for Staking on Land Stage 2 Completed

^{The purpose of this goal is to build the amount of high PP cards I need for staking on my tract.}

^{We will need to fill 5 slots per plot with staked cards, without requiring summoners (that doesn't mean they can't be used as regular cards).}

So, what are the details of this goal?

Deadline:

• [COMPLETED] Stage 1: June 2023
• [COMPLETED] Stage 1.5: August/whenever Land 1.5 is launched
• Stage 2: End of 2023? (this will be a new goal)

The total number of maxed-level* cards needed for staking on land: 500 (5 x 100).

• stage 1: need 120 cards for land by the deadline (decreased from 220) COMPLETED
• stretch goal: have optimized cards for 24 plots COMPLETED
• stage 1.5: need 220 cards for land by the deadline COMPLETED
• stage 2: have 500 cards for land
• stretch goal: have optimized cards for 44 plots

(*) any card with at least 1000 PP suitable for the terrain types I own will do (better for better plots); doesn't have to be maxed; temporarily lowered the minimum to 800 PP. Will reduce it further for the initial stages of the gameplay of land.

Current situation total: 144 / 500 (28%), but counted at least 220

Current situation stage 2: 26 / 500

Time remaining until Stage 2 deadline: ?

Comments Made

Original goal: 18k, REDUCED to 17k, by the end of 2023.

I started this week with a total of 15952 comments made.

Ended the week with 16057 comments made, which brings the number of my comments during this week to 105, which is above my needed weekly average.

I now need an average of 79 comments weekly to reach the goal of 17k.

Weekly Buy - LEO

I continued my weekly LEO purchases this week. Except this week I purchased twice as much due to a HE node issue. I submitted the purchase order again, and in the end, they were both executed, 2x10 HIVE worth of LEO purchases (over 76x2 LEO purchased compared to almost 77 the week before). I'll keep doing that until I believe I am out of the woods with my LEO Power yearly main goal or until the price of LEO pumps and it doesn't make sense to buy anymore.