I’ve always been a bit of a lackadaisical curator, not trying to squeeze a bit more out of the reward pool by timing things just right, and haven’t done any autovoting since before the fork from the old chain. I just checked hivestats.io which, as a snapshot in time, is showing a curation return of 11% on an effective power of just under 29k HP which works out to about 61 Hive a week. I’ve got another approximately 20k HP out as delegations, some earns payouts and some doesn’t.

Since I don’t need any earnings right now, I’m still planning on never powering down. But if Hive goes 10x or so from here, I’d be sorely tempted to skim off some liquid earnings for an income stream, even though I’d still let HP grow.