The #SaturdaySavers programme run with huge dedication and commitment by @shanibeer came to an end with the close of 2025.
I'm going to miss the structure and discipline it gave me, it was a huge help growing my Hive account. So I'm going to carry on doing weekly updates.
I've decided to post them in the BusyBees Community. This is a community set up to support @zakludick's tireless work in encouraging and teaching newer Hive users. Hopefully it'll help the community gain a bit more activity !
I'd encourage other Busy Bees to post updates in here, weekly or monthly - not compulsory, of course, but it gives you an excuse to make another post you can earn on, and giving yourself a fixed day to do the update each week is a fabulous way to both track your progress and create some structure around your activity.
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Here's a screenshot of last week's progress, which in this case was setting my goals for the year;
How Did I Set My Goals ?
After several years of participating in #SaturdaySavers, I've learned the hard way that it's easy to have too many goals and overcomplicate things. So I've taken it back to basics this year. The spreadsheet actually has a few hidden rows to monitor things outside Hive, so don't expect the numbers to magically add up !
So what am I tracking ?
Hive Power
I've set myself a relatively modest goal of 2500 HP growth this year. Last year's was far too optimistic, and I found it discouraging to realise the only way I'd be able to hit it was with just converting HBD. I've included allowing for a power up each HPUD, with the rest coming from a mix of author and curation rewards.
The start figure includes the HP I gained from my HPUD power up, so it'll probably take a week or two for the % of goal figure to settle down and show a realistic value.
HBD
The goal here is super-modest. It basically allows for just author rewards plus monthly interest. However, I've got quite a bit of liquid HIVE, and if the price recovers to a sufficient level then I might turn some of that back to HBD again. The price threshold is basically my risk appetite, but if the price of HIVE goes up, the risk of an HBD haircut goes down.
Reclaimed Investment
I'll be clear here. I do not intend to power down my HP. However, over the last few years I invested cash when I could afford it into Hive. I'd like to pull some of that out now, primarily as a risk-reduction measure.
The row for "Hive price to extract at 100%" is calculated as what I'd need to sell all my HIVE (but not HBD) at to recoup all my initial investment. I don't plan to do all that, at least not in a single year !
There are two things influencing this number. First, of course, is the actual price of HIVE at any point in time. Second is how much HIVE I can earn within the platform - if (hypothetically) I doubled the amount of HIVE I had through author and curation rewards, then the extraction price would half.
The real goal is to pull out some of my investment in small, gentle steps, in a way which doesn't harm the overall growth of my account.
Social Metrics
I'm allowing myself fairly restrained goals for what I think of as social metrics - posts, comments and reputation. Again, it'll take a week or two for these numbers to start making sense.
What I have done here is learned the lesson of last year; when I get busy in real life, if my goals are too high then things like posting start to feel like a chore, and Hive is supposed to be fun. I may track my progress quite obsessively, but it's still a place where my real focus is on creative writing and interacting with friends from all around the world.
VESTS
Yes, I know; VESTS are just a reflection of Hive Power. But I still like to track them separately. Right now, I should graduate froom Dolphin to Orca sometime around my 125th birthday 😁
So that's my setup for the year. I haven't included any Tribe tokens, because I've realised that the level of volatility and low value of holdings makes them something I shouldn't worry about too much.
I'd love to hear any feedback or questions, and hope to see a couple of Busy Bees (or other Hive friends - all are welcome) joining me in doing updates in this community ! I plan to update each Saturday or Sunday.
Wow, reclaimed investment! This is a good idea, I will add this metric too to my goals.
Thank you ! The perfect scenario is one where my Hive account is 100% earned, but I was daft enough that most of the fiat I put in was buying HIVE when it was around £0.20-£0.30, so it's going to take a while to get it back in a way that's getting value. So far, I've turned it into BTC, so a couple of the hidden lines monitor BTC price and revalue the reclaimed investment based on what that's done to it.
Now it is the time to turn HBD into hive, and when hive goes above 0.50 do the move back.
Another thing that I do is to get any x2 or more increase and move 50% of the profit into stable, ideal in bull market. When bear came use the same stable to buy close to bottom.
Yep ! I've done the turning HBD into HIVE thing. But I think it'll be a very long time indeed (if ever) that HIVE hits $0.50 again.
So what I'm thinking of doing is taking a smaller, controllable, sum and bouncing it back and forth to take advantages of smaller adjustments in price.
The only issue is finding somewhere to do it where the loss to slippage isn't too low. I've become frustrated with Hivedex, because their exchange rates always seem to lag behind CoinGecko, and usually seem to slightly be in their favour in both directions of trade. When I've got some time, I'll have a look around at other ways to bounce HIVE and HBD back and forth, maybe including switching between SWAP.HIVE and SWAP.HBD in Hive Engine if there's enough liquidity. For a supposedly fee-free ecosystem, there seems to be a lot of loss to hidden fees in the form of slightly skewed exchange rates !
if you wait long enough, it will reach 0.50. Look at LEO? I was buying it at 0.1=0.15 for years, and after 3 years, I had 100K to sell at ATH. You need to play the long game. Add it every day, every week, every month, and in a few years that time will come.
I've been personally "lucky"? I guess?? In that when I powered down in 2024 I did manage to recoup everything I'd put in, so at this point my entire re-built account is entirely self-funded and in the green! :D which was 100% through blind dumb luck.
Hey, we're currently trawling through #saturdaysavers posts over the last week to let everyone know we've 'relaunched' #saturdaysavers.
It will be run by the @slothbuzz account utilising the new hashtag #SlothlySavers.
We'd love to invite you to continue your savings journey with us. Here's our 'launch post'. Where you can share your week 1 'saving goals' posts.
Share your savings goals with us by dropping the link to this very post on our launch post to get started today!
We'll be posting on Thursdays now instead of Saturdays from the @slothbuzz account, but will keep an eye on #saturdaysavers tag for the coming weeks to try encourage users to come share the buzz with us!
If you have any questions, just let us know. Good luck with your savings journey for 2026, and we look forward to seeing you in the #SlothlySavers club!
!SLOTH