This week what's new with the hive blockchain. We got a lot of updates out of blocktrades the other day of which many of those updates are things most front end users are either one not going to care about or two simply don't understand. If you're interested though you can check it out via their post at [BlockTrade Updates](https://ecency.com/hive-139531/@blocktrades/6th-update-of-2024-early-release-notes-for-hived-and-haf-apps] I still feel it's important these updates happen and that you at least look over them so you're aware.

Outside of that most applications have only had minor updates but some notable ones would be HoloZing which just released their alpha pack to buy. It actully looks like a solid pack that you're for sure going to want to pick up. Plus the price isn't bad I'd put it there at a low cost Indy game on steam which I feel is a good fair ask for any kind of blockchain game at least to be able to start playing in it.

Goals

$HIVE

Goal: 250,000 Current: 119,203

Week over week we only pushed 335 more hive powered up. That puts us at almost 48 hive powered up per day. It's still only around half of what my goal is. In order to hit this goal in a repetitive manner I'm going to need around 300,000 Hive which would put me on the mark or very close to 100 hive per day in curation and interest rewards. So really I'm thinking about pushing that hive goal now to around 350,000 up 100,000 from where it is. I do have things in motion now to attempt to get to that much faster now.

Come this week I will have a hive node up and running. The nodes going to be on a VPN at first which is how most nodes are run these days. However if I get ranked up high enough and after a few months of operations on the VPN to get my feet wet I'll be moving the node to a location in which I have control over and for it to be a much more powerful server side node. I'll most likely do this once I hit within the top 50 hive nodes so mid to end of 2025 feels like a good point.

HBD

HBD is going to get a little more love from me over the next few months. The main reason for that is because I want the interest alone to be able to cover node costs. I plan on starting up a Hive-engine, VSC and 3speak node all together but the first will be the hive node.

I've run a number of proof of staking nodes before in the past. The biggest issue with hive is it feels like you have to search for a needle in a haystack to find the right commands and configuration.

$LEO

Goal: 150,000 Current: 148,062

Week over week we added another 451 Leo which is up a decent amount compared to last week. That means we added a total of a little over 64 leo per day into the mix. I also powered up over 200 on leo power up day (which happens on the 15th of each month) which helped contribute to that larger increase.

That now puts me under 2,000 leo needed to hit my goal and that this rate means I will for sure hit it by the latest of end of November 2025. The goal however is to try and push that even faster as this is a goal I want to hit and start pushing on to other things. 150,000 Leo is solid and while I'll still be building it those funds will instead start moving more into liquidity over anything else. I'll most liking be taking some of those DASH funds I've been having laying around since my node operation days many MANY years ago and placing them together with LEO another with a few other pairs and see how that takes.

Splinterlands

Ah Splinterlands the game you gotta love but you gotta hate how much they spend these days. It almost feels like 2025 is going to be the tell all for the game. Either it's going to do well and take off so money is no longer an issues (and the the DAO and the team need to be much smarter at managing their money and collect interest on it) or it's going to belly flop and the marketing among other things will simply destroy anything that is left.

I do have some hopes though as there seems to be good connections there which I feel increases the odds of it being a success. It's for sure going to be interesting to see what comes of it all.

We have land releasing now in 1.75 version in Q1 of 2025 (Finally!!!) a new pack in 2025 which is a standard thing. Overall the game does feel like it's picking up some steam again and has a good fighting chance.

Two core areas I'll be working on are...

1 Million SPS of which I'm very close to hitting and will be buying stacks here soon as well.

Getting at least 100 of my 142 plots up and running.

We have a lot of things in motion right now of which are building and generating passive revenue. I believe things are going to really start firing up now.

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