Hive Engine (Hive Sidechain) Investments

I've received my first 0.025 LEO! I have been posting about investments and finance and trying to look through anything with a LEO tag, to try to vote and help out those who are also seeking to grow investments, and I think either from a post of mine or from curating LEO content, I've received a small portion of LEO for my own. :) Awesome!

EPC has paid out yet again and has been very consistent, as well as I have also received a 2nd NEOXAG payout in about the same proportion to the first payout. It's amazing to watch returns come back so quickly and knowing that consistency will be the key to growing any given portfolio!

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1st - EPC

Epic Token

Invested To Date(ITD) - 40,000 EPC bought @ 0.00012 Hive/Ea

Returns:
1: 0.018 Hive | 2: 0.002 Hive
3: 0.045 Hive | 4: 0.002 Hive
5: 0.002 Hive | 6: 0.013 Hive

Payment 6 is another decently sized return! Looking good so far!

To date, I've invested 4.8 Hive total into EPC. The returns so far amount to 0.082 collectively. This means that the % returned is already sitting around a nice 1.7%~! That means that in less than a month's time, I have already gotten about 1.7% of my initial investment back. That's almost unheard of in a lot of investing, but so is the beauty of Hive and other crypto!

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2nd - SIM

dCity Token

Invested To Date(ITD) - 4,000 SIM @ 0.000408 Hive/Ea
ITD - 6,000 @ 0.000512 Hive/Ea

Returns:
None To Date

SIM token (As said in the first post.) requires a certain stake to begin to earn daily rewards and it also runs a 30 day average on your holdings to determine that, so if you invest a little at first and then a lot later, it will take time for it to average out. Well worth the investment though! As you accrue more SIM, it pays consistent DAILY returns!

10K SIM is where I stand and I am finally getting around to actually buying cards here soon. Been a bit busy lately. :P

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3rd - SPS & DEC

Splintershards & Dark Energy Crystals

Invested To Date(ITD): 1,000 DEC @ 0.00182 Hive/Ea
ITD: 4 SPS @ 0.139 Hive/Ea

Returns:
None To Date

The variations in price to date have allowed for some possible gains, but for these I'm looking at their long-term value and what I see them potentially reaching. I'm still HODLing these until I see some serious hikes in value!

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4th - SWAP.LTC

Litecoin Peg

Investment To Date: None

Returns:
None To Date

Buy now and sell above $200 USD! :)

Still considering paying over market, but I see a lot of -% runs on LTC as of late so I'm skeptical on whether I should hold out or not. One of the few I'm skittish about LOL.

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5th - LEO

LEO Token

Investment To Date(ITD): 40 LEO @ 0.173 Hive/Ea

Returns:
1: 0.025 LEO

LEO has already come through with a first payment of 0.025 LEO!

I'm almost certain this is a payout for one of the posts involving LEO, but I'm not certain as it doesn't say whether it's author rewards or curation rewards. I'll have to look into this further or if anyone knows for sure how this fully functions, I would love some enlightenment. :P It seems that LEO might actually move higher up on the list while crypto like LTC will likely move down. There's more functionality and action to crypto like LEO than LTC, as they have social aspects and lots of interaction tied to them.

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6th - NEOXAG

Reveal spoiler

Investment To Date(ITD): 2,000 NEOXAG @ 0.00096 Hive/Ea

Returns:
1: 11.88 NEOXAG~ | 2: 11.88 NEOXAG~

NEOXAG seems to have possibly clarified what I was curious about literally a minute or two ago while posting this and discussing LEO. I think that the rewards are from author posts, and if it's something like a comment or curation, it will say so in the payouts. Just a guess though! The picture below shows what I mean pretty clearly I think. Rewards seem to be split 50/50 between staking and liquid as well, which is always nice! I have no problems getting half of my earnings directly powered up into my investments!

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#7 - Other

Other notable investments

20 WAIV @ 0.14 Hive/Ea
200 SPT @ 0.00235 Hive/Ea
100 CTP @ 0.0237 Hive/Ea
1,000 CCC @ 0.00111 Hive/Ea
20 STEM @ 0.03 Hive/Ea
60 ONEUP @ 0.00565 Hive/Ea

WAIV, CTP, CCC, STEM, SPT, ONEUP

These are all great investments with a low barrier to entry that you can have fun with and experiment on how "Tokenomics" works and what returns you can expect to see numerically, across the board based on different code settings and configurations! They've also consistently had volume of trade, even if the volume is low. The low price points and ability to begin staking/trading with minimal capital, make them IMO a great starter investment for someone not looking to drop the cost needed to begin with SIM or LEO or some of the other high-entry-cost tokens.

As of now, I am watching their values and staking what I can, where I can, to try to diversify my portfolio as much as possible. These are more of staking coins than trading, so we will see if their growth can scale nicely or not. Anything I feel like isn't going to grow efficiently, I might look at for trading day-to-day in opposition of staking.

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Thanks for reading. Feel free to share opinions of your own and discuss the topic in the comments! :) Always open to new ideas/investments.