Sharing some little knowledge on the Hive
How are you dear Read.cash readers? I can't believe that January is almost over. It has been a bit of a tough month for me, especially the last days and I hope that the following ones will be a little lighter.
Before I get into the topic. I want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who left me a message of encouragement and prayers for my husband's health in Do Not Enter - Restricted Area. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I will update you before I continue.
My husband is home, after a few days in the hospital. And after that anxious night in intensive care for fear that he might have a heart attack and running some tests, the diagnosis is that he has pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane that covers the heart). Apparently for having had covid a few weeks ago. Although he never showed symptoms of having it, my son had covid 3 weeks ago with mild symptoms. So it seems my husband although asymptomatic also had it. It seems to be a more or less common consequence in some covid patients, but a condition that if left untreated is very risky. So he has to be on full rest for at least 2 weeks with a strict diet and lots of medication.
Now going to the subject on the Hive.
Make your vote count and don't let it be dust
By chance a few days ago, I came across an old post in Hive, which title was something like. So I shouldn't vote the comments in Hive? That of course piqued my curiosity.
The person in his post asked how much was the minimum reward paid on a comment. From the comments and then researching in other posts, I learned the following. For the reward on any post to be paid, it has to be at least 0.02 cents. This doesn't mean that if our vote is less than this amount it has no value. It does as long as we vote on a post whose total rewards are at least 0.02. Many of the posts will reach at least this mark. But not so the comments.
Many people who vote comments have very small voting power. So although the intention to vote the comment is very laudable, we are wasting our vote, because the author of the comment will not receive anything unless the value of the vote or the sum of votes of the comment is at least 0.02. But comments usually just get one vote unless the comment is too good and caught some attention.
What I got from Hive Power Up Day
Maybe if you have read me before talking about Hive you know that in the last few months I have wanted to participate in some initiatives to try to grow my HIve account. One of them is the Power Up Day. This besides showing a commitment to the Hive blockchain, has helped me to start having curation rewards. Simple, by participating in the PUD and following some rules you are eligible for some prizes in a delegation of HP. This is easier to achieve in accounts that are just starting out because they are based on the percentage of HP increase in your account. Of course, there are minimum requirements, but it is worth a look if you haven't done so far.
You can see your curation rewards as well as other useful stats at https://hivestats.io/. Just ad your hive username following the address, for example, @coquicoin as I use the same username here and there.
Since I've been on Hive I've received 15 dollars in curation rewards, not that I'm going to get rich for it, but that's what I've received for voting other people's content. If I hadn't won some delegations in the PUD, the amount would be much less, I probably it wouldn't reach 2 dollars. But thanks to the delegations I won in January and especially the ones I won in December I have received more curation rewards. And probably I would have received more if I had the knowledge I have now about voting. Many of my votes I'm sure turned into dust.
So basically when someone delegates HP to you, they are delegating you, voting power. So the little piece of advice is to take advantage of this as much as you can.
Learn about your voting power and the curation rewards
I have read a lot of posts that talk about this. But the basic thing is that our voting mana is recharged at a rate of 20% per day. That is, if I am at 100% and I spend 20% on the votes I make, this power is regenerated in 1 day. From what I have read it is advisable not to lower much than 80% not to compromise our voting value.
And how much do our votes consume in terms of percentages? A 100% vote consumes 2% of our voting mana. So if we only want to consume 20% we should do 10 votes a day, of course, this is not strict and we can modify the percentage of our vote if we use Peakd or Ecency. In HiveBlog the vote can only be adjusted if the account has a minimum of 500 HP.
There are those who don't want to think about managing their votes and decide to follow a curation trail. I haven't explored this point much yet, so I'll leave it for later. And there is also the possibility of delegating part or the total of our voting power to big accounts that do curation like OCDB, Curangel, or LeoVote to name a few. And receive proportional rewards to our delegation, depending on how much these accounts distribute among their delegators.
This turned out to be a bit longer than I thought it would be. I hope some of my friends on Read who are now posting on Hive and who don't have as much time being bees and may not be aware of all this will find it useful. @FarmGirl @Eylz2021 @TengoLoTodo @foryoubtc09 @Bloghound @jane @Duvinca.
That's all for today. To you, my dear readers, thank you very much!
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January 31, 2022
So glad that you're husband is fine now. Praying for you and your husband for his fast recovery. Everything will be fine soon and better days woll come for you. God bless you and your family 🤗