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These are some giant beetles we can find in the banana plant. They destroy the plant especially the root pulp. It is hard to get rid of them. They dig a hole in the mud and go deep inside the root pulp and eat the nutrition there. I used ashes to bring them to the surface. I was able to get rid of 3 beetles but there are still more. #Gardening
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Splinterlands - Season end rewards and my rental income report I had been sharing my season reports every season. I used to do this before a year or so where I used to share my daily quest report but now I'm doing only 15 days once sharing my season rewards. I have slowly started spending more time arranging my deck and managing my assets on Splinterlands. I personally feel that Splinterlands is becoming our safe zone for big investments these days. The investment is moving…
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The rental income is getting lower every season. The new reward cards that were introduced are reducing the demand I believe. But I was still able to make 17k DEC as rental revenue last season. I guess the value is close to 150$ which is pretty decent. I also received some cards from the season-end rewards but they are not very great. More details are in the post. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/splinterlands-season-end-rewards-and-my-rental-income-report #Splinterlands
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Hive Power Up day - My monthly Hive stats Every first date of the month is called Hive Power Up day and this is the day when people power up Hive to their account to increase their asset value and holdings. Thanks to the Hive Debt ratio, I was able to easily get some Hive flowing to my account and I powered up 100 Hive this month. I have also set a goal for myself to reach 25k HP before the end of this year but I think it will happen in another week's time. The Hive price is…
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I'm still highly committed to Hive and very happy to stay invested long term. Today I participated in Hive power-up day. This is the day when we usually power up Hive and increase our stake. With all the opportunities Hive ecosystem is providing, I'm very excited to stay invested here. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/hive-power-up-day-my-monthly-hive-stats #Leofinance
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I reached my first milestone of 10,000 SPS stake in total. I'm planning to have a total of 12k SPS stake to receive around 4 vouchers for CL packs and that would be my second milestone. The demand is increasing and soon I might have to go for the third milestone of 15k SPS stake as well I guess. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/splinterlands-first-milestone-of-10-000-sps-stake-reached #Splinterlands
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Splinterlands - First milestone of 10,000 SPS stake reached I'm very glad to share with you all that I was able to reach my first milestone of 10,000 SPS yesterday. When I claimed my SPS tokens yesterday, I found out that I have already reached my first milestone. I'm going to continue further to reach 12,000 SPS that would give me 4 vouchers. I initially thought 10,000 should be enough for a good investment but then it appears that staking 12k SPS would give me 4 full…
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Dark Energy Crystals have reached a great record price of 10$ per 1000 DEC. It was supposed to be soft pegged to 1$ per 1000 DEC and that's how it used to be in the past. Now after seeing this price, I'm remembering my bad trades where I sold my DEC very cheap. Every game gives a good amount of DEC to the player. I'm getting close to 50 cents from each game. #Splinterlands
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All new reward cards are coming my way. Nothing special about these new cards. I guess these cards will be very useful for the new players. I'm now wondering if I should be purchasing and upgrading these new rewards cards from the market. I also realized that I should be upgrading my Fire deck a little bit. Progressing further in the game is getting challenging. Maybe my choice of cards is poor. #Splinterlands
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My Hive Goals - Weekly progress report Every week I usually share my Hive goals progress report. Last week was also pretty good and I guess there was decent progress. I wish I can increase my stake in Hive as much as possible as long as the price of Hive stays below 1$. I strongly believe that there is a high possibility for the price to go above 1 dollar anytime soon. I'm also very glad that there are many different opportunities on Hive right now from where we can start…
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Game is getting hard day by day. I don't know if it is only me or it is the case for everyone. People come with some big and fancy summoners and trash me. I remember crossing diamond leagues with this collection and with this set of cards. Today it is challenging. Hope the growth happens gradually as I accumulate some new cards as well. Sharing today's quest rewards. Luck is probably not on my side. :) #Splinterlands
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Massive Hive Pump and I reached my goal of 25k Hive Today I woke up to see this massive pump happening. I was able to witness only when the price was around 1.3 USD. It was continuously fluctuating and there were lots of buys and sell happening in the market. I guess this is a new All-Time High for Hive and another interesting thing is that the price stayed above 1.3$ for a very long time. The price is still good and above 1$ which is a great thing. I hope it creates a new…
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Today Hive had a massive pump hitting a new all-time high. It is mostly like some big whale got into the market when the liquidity was very low. That could be one of the reasons why the price was pushed to a new all-time high value of 1.5$ per Hive. I was fortunate to book some profits of over 1$. I might buy back when the price goes below 50 cents again. #Leofinance
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New rewards cards coming my way with many portions as well. I don't know what I'm going to be doing with the portions I have been getting in the game. I guess it is going to be helpful only if I open packs. Otherwise, those portions are also not tradable. #Splinterlands
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Why is banning Bitcoin in China a good joke? In the last two years, BTC has been having one of its best times in History. We will be able to see that from the charts themselves. Compared to the previous years of Bitcoin, in the last two years, BTC reached its top price in history. I'm glad to see that in the last 2 days BTC has been pumping again making the price move towards its new all-time high. When it comes to BTC investment, it is quite hard to predict what will be the…
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We would have heard several times about China banning crypocurrencies or Bitcoin. It also happened a few weeks back too and they even said that it is very serious this time but look at it. It is almost rushing towards it's all time high value. I'll never again believe if they say China Banned crypto and it is going to be the end of crypto. https://ecency.com/hive-167922/@bala41288/why-is-banning-bitcoin-in-china-a-good-joke #Leofinance
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Top 5 common and useful libraries for Node.js developers I would like to say that the best thing that happened in my career was to know that it was possible to write Javascript code in the backend and run backend service completely with Javascript. Thanks to the v8 javascript engine and thanks to the Node js developers who thought about that idea. I have been enjoying this for nearly 5 years building lots of apps in my real world as well as the crypto world. Source…
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Maybe I should have calculated it a little better. Close to 9 days remaining before the CL pack sale. I guess I may not be able to save up enough SPS for buying packs for myself. I still have 900 more SPS to reach in 9 days for reaching my goal of 12k SPS stake. After that, I will start saving liquid SPS for purchasing packs. I'm also anticipating that the price of SPS could pump further when the sale is near. Let's see how it goes. #Splinterlands
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Today the game wasn't very easy for me. I was trying hard to move from Gold II to Gold I today and it drained my ECR so much. I kept on going up and falling down. But finally, now I'm in Gold I, and the efforts were worth it I guess. The reason is that I received a GF card today. I need to have this type of patience always to pull some nice cards like this. #Splinterlands
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Seeing a good trading opportunity on SPS I was looking forward to do a quick trade on SPS. I was wondering if the price of SPS would have a nice pump in the coming days. Thanks to @rehan12 who gave a heads up in Neoxian City. I understand that it is quite obvious that the price of SPS would see a good pump before the pack sale date. The main reason is that people who are staking more SPS would be getting more vouchers that can be used to purchase CL packs.…
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My Hive Goals - Weekly Progress Report | CTP Goal complete This weekend was a very busy one for me and health-wise I'm not keeping well. But hopefully, things should get better in the coming days. My growth on Hive is still steady and looking good. This is the big motivation for me to keep going. I'm going to be doing an assessment of my growth in this article. The primary goal for the year 2021 is already complete and I have reached 25k Hive power. Looks like if I'm staying…
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It was a great week and my progress on Hive goals was great. I have completed my CTP goal and realized that I can stretch a little bit with my Hive power goals and I'm planning to increase my Hive power to 27k before the end of the year. Next week, I might as well add some new goals to the list. Let's see. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/my-hive-goals-weekly-progress-report-or-ctp-goal-complete #Leofinance
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350 Hive from a small SPS trade Two days back I wrote an article on the trading opportunity we have on SPS. I also mentioned that it can be a risky trading opportunity but I personally had so much confidence in that. I'm glad to share that I was able to book a profit of 350 Hive from that trading. I bought 2000 SPS for this quick trading opportunity and wanted to hold them till the pack sale to see if I can book some profits. To my surprise, the price of SPS already pumped…
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I made a 350 Hive profit from a small trade. I bought some SPS two days back and sold them to book my profits. The intention was to hold it until the CL pack sale but the profit was pretty decent so I book it partially. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/350-hive-from-a-small-sps-trade #Leofinance
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Sadly my laptop CPU is not supported for a Windows 11 upgrade I read somewhere that Windows 11 upgrade is being pushed to many users who are currently using Windows 10. I was so excited and wanted to check if my laptop was compatible or not. I quickly opened windows updates and found out that my laptop was not supported for the upgrade. I was thinking that I had one of the most powerful specs and the laptop was intact for all my use cases. It is very sad right now to see it…
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Today I tried to update my operating system from Windows 10 to Windows 11 but sadly my CPU was not supported. I guess I will have to continue with Windows 10 as long as I have this laptop. Otherwise, I will have to switch to Linux. More details are in the below article. https://stemgeeks.net/hive-163521/@bala41288/sadly-my-laptop-cpu-is-not-supported-for-a-windows-11-upgrade #Hive
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Splinterlands - May Hay while the sun shines bright This proverb suits very well the splinterlands long-term investors. We have been using Splinterlands as a good investment opportunity for a very long time. Ever since the SPS drop was done, people have started investing so much and we are also able to see the player base growing like anything. This is what we expect from a game that is Play2Earn. Concepts like the rental market and SPS have attracted people to invest more…
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For splinterlands long-term gamers and investors, I believe this is the right time to make hay because the sun is shining very bright. There is no harm in booking some profits when the price is good. DEC price is also looking very good right now giving a good opportunity to invest further in the game on some of the cards that can do well in our collection. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/splinterlands-may-hay-while-the-sun-shines-bright #Splinterlands
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I wasn't able to complete my quest yesterday. It was late night and I was continuously trying but failing. Today morning I woke up and completed two quests. There was only one good card in that but overall I guess it is okay. I was fortunate to reach Diamond level this time that pushed me towards 40 loot chests towards the end of the season. I still have one more day to sustain this level. I'm going to keep trying for Diamond I but yeah let's see how it goes. #Splinterlands
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Good time to accumulate some Leo tokens I recently reached my goal of completing 5500 Leo Power. After I completed that goal, I actually decided to stop powering up Leo and instead sell it for other tokens. But I did not sell it because the price of Leo was not very great. If we look at the chart, we will be able to see that the price of Leo is gradually going down. I had been accumulating all the LEO tokens I have been getting from curation rewards and author rewards. Today…
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My last quest for the current season is done. Every game gives close to 60 DEC minimum which is very good. As long as my ECR is good, I think I should play and grab those DEC. The loot chest rewards were not very great. But I'm excited about the rental rewards which were better than last season. Mostly tomorrow I will be writing an article about the rewards and earnings from last season. #Splinterlands
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Wow SPS had a good pump suddenly. I just sold my 1000 SPS at 1.1 Hive that I bought for 1 Hive on Hive Engine and made 100 Hive. Risky but a good trade. The price of Hive is also going down a bit right now making the price fluctuate on Hive Engine. I'm looking for another nice trading opportunity on Hive Engine. #Splinterlands
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My monthly HBD interest claiming day I decided to claim my HBD interest on the 15th of every month. Today is the day due for the past month. As I'm doing a Hive power up on the 1st of every month, I decided to do this HBD investment and HBD claiming on the 15th of every month. I don't know how this claiming would work out in the month of February because the month has only 28 days. But otherwise, I guess this will be good every month. I have pushed 100 HBD this month to the…
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I have completed staking 12k SPS and I'm ready for the Vouchers drop. Though I haven't decided yet on what I'm going to be doing with the Vouchers I would get, I'm expecting it to give some more additional earning opportunities for us in the game. Splinterlands is making things really exciting for us. #Splinterlands
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Splinterlands - Season end rewards and rental income I still remember that during the early days of the game, I used to be on Champions and diamond leagues easily every season. I was just lazy to play the game regularly but otherwise if I play, I always used to stay in diamond and champion as well. Looking at the season-end rewards now, I'm still happy even though I'm not in high league levels. The main reason is that the player base is very big right now and the FOMO about…
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Today the rewards from playing the game were very good. I was able to make 1000 DEC by just playing and winning around 10 games. Having the right cards and being part of the guild matters in increasing the DEC rewards. #Splinterlands
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My Hive Goals - Weekly Progress Report I'm thinking that the progress was good as always. I'm getting a good feeling about Splinterlands now because it is giving me a decent passive income these days which is close to a decent value that can give me my financial independence soon. I consider splinterlands as a good source for my financial independence. I'm thinking of having several sources to give me a consistent income after I reach my financial independence and I believe…
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I'm almost done with the Hive goals for the year. There are still 3 more goals to go and I will be doing a fresh set of goals for the next year. Setting goals is always great because it motivates and gives us a boost. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/my-hive-goals-weekly-progress-report-s2nf6 #Leofinance
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I have not completed my quest for the day yet. The SL site is down. I used the opportunity to write a post on my experiences with the CL packs. I was able to grab a small profit by buying a CL pack for a cheap price and sell it at a high price. I have also sold my voucher in the market for a good price. Read more in the below article. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/splinterlands-price-of-each-voucher-in-the-market-was-so-tempting #Splinterlands
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Splinterlands - Price of each voucher in the market was so tempting I was thinking of targetting close to 100 CL packs in total. In order to get 100 CL packs, I guess I will have to hold 100 Vouchers as well. Vouchers are the most demanding thing right now. I was able to see that the price of Vouchers was higher than the CL pack itself. People were buying vouchers from the market for unimaginable prices. It was really tempting to look at that price and I decided to sell my…
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Increase in Solar farms is a threat to vegetation around us Solar is definitely going to be the future. It is also predicted that after 2050, there is a high possibility that the energy generation would have been completely shifted towards Solar or other clean energy than the non-renewable energy that we are currently dependent upon. Though this sounds like good news for us, we should also consider the damage we would be doing to this ecosystem. One good thing happening is…
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After almost 3 days today only I got a chance to complete the quest and open the loot chests. I know I missed the rewards in the last two days but it is all good. There is no harm in taking a small vacation by sacrificing the rewards I believe. #Splinterlands
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Splinterlands - Maintaining a good rental income I wanted to share my experience exclusively on this because I noticed that not many people are maintaining a good rental income. I understand that it is not an easy process to review the profile every day and make use of the price adjustment capabilities. But if we do that we will be able to increase the rental income easily. I was also lazy till last month to go and update the price. But this month, I decided that I should be…
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Rental income from Splinterlands is a great source of passive income for holding a good set of cards. But the most important thing is to maintain the rental income and make use of the cards to the fullest. Peakmonsters is a good interface to maintain the rental price for the cards. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/splinterlands-maintaining-a-good-rental-income #Splinterlands
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The price of SPS is falling down today and also DEC price. I was wondering if it was a good buying opportunity or just a time to observe the market go down. The focus is currently fully on Vouchers and people are selling their other assets to purchase vouchers. I'm still wondering what would be the smart move. Let's see. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/splinterlands-making-use-of-price-fluctuations-in-the-market #Splinterlands
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Splinterlands - Making use of price fluctuations in the market The price of Splinterlands assets is quite unpredictable right now. But the good thing about the market is that it shows very good price fluctuations creating a nice opportunity. Today I was observing the market and especially the price of SPS tokens. I was wondering what would be the future of SPS. The price of Vouchers is skyrocketing right now and many people are trying to grab more vouchers from the game to…
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My Hive Goals - Weekly Progress Report I'm guessing it was a slow week and my rewards from the posts were not that great. But as always it was definitely a motivating week pushing me more towards my financial independence goal. We need a few more things similar to Splinterlands to push us more towards our goals. Having 100 different investments and expecting passive income from 100 different things is always good. Projects inside Hive are all a great opportunity for that. I…
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I'm slowly nearing the end of my goals. This makes me realize that I should also be starting some new goals to keep things going. Goals are always a great motivation. The end of the year is near and my goal completion is also near. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/my-hive-goals-weekly-progress-report-36ulhd #Leofinance
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Is it only me or do others feel the same? After the recent update, the number of comments I receive on my posts has reduced. Also, the notification icon is very silent and not turning red most of the time after I make the post. I know the Noise Cash team would have had some thoughts before doing this but it is at least not very welcoming for me. :)
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Staying away from taking loans is a good strategy From a very young age, I have not been a big fan of taking loans. A few years back when I saw my account worth was growing on Hive and when I saw many investment opportunities in the crypto world, it was so tempting to take a loan and try to grow. Already spending time and investing money in the crypto market was pretty risky. Today I can be a little confident but during the early days, it was a big risk for me without…
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How much favorable are you towards taking loans and doing investments? I have done it before and have also been successful with that but I personally advise against that. In general, I would recommend against taking loans for any purpose. We have to try to manage our financial situation only by ourselves. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/staying-away-from-taking-loans-is-a-good-strategy #Leofinance
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Top 5 Passive Investment opportunities on Hive Engine Hive Blockchain is a package with lots of opportunities inside it. It not only acts as a blogging platform but it also acts as a platform on top of which many decentralized applications can be built. One such thing is Hive Engine which has the capability to create tokens and use those tokens for our projects. Whoever came up with this idea kudos to them because it is making people rich I should say. In this article, let's…
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We have enormous opportunities on Hive Engine. I have listed out my top 5 picks in the below article. If we enter at the right time, we will be able to see a good passive income coming our way. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/top-5-passive-investment-opportunities-on-hive-engine #Leofinance
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Lesson Learned - If you see a profit book it This is something that I tell myself quite often but greed doesn't let me do it. Most of the time I see a good profit in front of my eyes but I miss it somehow. In the last few days, it happened to me again. The first thing was with Hive and the second thing was with SPS. In the last few weeks, both the tokens gave a good opportunity to trade. Even though I'm not a very good and successful trader, I do give it a try at times.…
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I'm almost nearing my first payout on Honeygain. It has been almost two years if I'm not wrong but to reach 20$ it took lots of time. I also did not push hard. During my early days, I was using multiple devices and pushing it really hard but then stopped doing it. I'm already excited about the first payout. Let's see how it goes and after that, I will write a detailed article on the same. You can check out the site and get started with the below URL.…
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Just getting very close to staking 15k SPS. I initially decided to have only 12k staked but then I realized it will be better to stake whatever I get as daily rewards because the more vouchers I can get, the better it is because the demand for Vouchers is still very good. #Splinterlands
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Top 5 popular things on Hive Ecosystem Today I was having a conversation with someone who was pretty new to Hive. They had no idea what Hive is all about and the opportunities it brings. I wanted to cover the top 5 things that came to my mind when I thought about Hive. Actually, when I told him that we have so many opportunities on Hive, he also asked me to list the top 5 things from Hive and explain them. I was thinking that it would make a lot more sense to talk about the…
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For those who are new to the Hive ecosystem, below are the top 5 things that are the most popular and common things about Hive and every user should know these things. These are also a few things that can increase our earning opportunity on Hive. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/top-5-popular-things-on-hive-ecosystem #Leofinance
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Financial independence is not easy to achieve but still achievable I know for a fact that we a good goal, we can easily reach our financial independence and decide to stop working after that particular point. But even though we can imagine something like that, there are still many people who feel like they want more and they keep increasing their assets instead of enjoying what they already have. There is nothing wrong with that because it acts as a great motivation for…
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Financial independence is not an easy thing to achieve for everyone. People have different preferences and their definition of financial independence also differs from one individual to another. I have shared my perspective on Financial independence in the below article. https://leofinance.io/@bala41288/financial-independence-is-not-easy-to-achieve-but-still-achievable #Leofinance
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My Hive Goals - Weekly Progress Report One more week has passed. In general, it was a very busy week for me. My real-life kept me very busy and there was also an unexpected issue with Hive Engine witness nodes that drained my time. Had to do lot of work to get the server back up and running. A few weeks back I took up a goal to reach a total of 27k Hive power and a few more goals as well. I'm glad that it is slowly happening and I'm almost going to be reaching my goals. As…