Hello all! Another week and it's time again to do another #myhivegoals post, a series idea started by started by @jongolson. This also doubles as my weekly progress report for #saturdaysavers, which is a fun little group that tries to motivate everyone to save and reach their goals. I'm going to look at the progress I've made on my Hive goals, as well as give a few tokens I'm looking at right now. If you are here for the comment SBI giveaway, well, we'll get to that too.

The moon march continues! This past week the market didn't crash back down as we might have pessimistically expected. Does that mean the bull market is here? Declaring that may be jumping the gun, but it was nice to see things continue to creep upward. Will BTC hit 40k sometime this week and HIVE hit .40? Let's hope!

Anyway, let's dive into my Hive goals.

~ Hive & HBD ~

My current goal is 25k Hive. While I haven't magically made it there (yet), I did pass the 20k milestone. Woohoo! That was nice to pass. Thank you to everyone on Hive who has helped me reach this level. Your support with your kind upvotes and comments is really amazing. You guys rock!

To get into the weeds a bit more, this past week I made 243.36, bringing me to 20095.62 total Hive Power. That's 80.4% of my goal!

Math time. 25k - 20095.62 gives us 4904.38. Divided out by the days till the first of next year, we get 100.1 Hive needed per day to reach 25k by that point. Yicks! Well, that isn't going to happen. At least I hit 20k, so I still remain happy about that.

Now I have to decide what to do by the end of the year. Do I keep my 25k goal until I reach it, which will be sometime near the end of the first quarter of next year at present rate. Or do I make a new goal for 2024, as #saturdaysavers suggests with their yearly goals?

If I make a new goal, I'll be a little more realistic as to what I can reach in 2024, but also continue to push myself.

~ BRO ~

Another week where I didn't pick up any BRO. The price has been pretty stable for awhile and isn't really dipping much, usually bouncing around between 7 and 9 HIVE. I do have a limit order placed for a low amount just on the off-chance that someone will sell out and drop the price.

I did, however, earn some from my delegation to @brofi. I moved up 0.164, which puts me at 522.36 total or 52.2% of my goal.

~ PIMP ~

My goal with PIMP is 100k. I made 298.3163 PIMP last week, putting me at 59890.58 — 59.9% of my goal.

~ LGN ~

Out of the three second layer tokens I am chasing, LGN is the one that I saw some price movement on this past week. I used that opportunity to buy a few hundred of it, bringing me to 1420.26. Of the three, I'm getting closest to hitting my goal here, which is 2k LGN. I'm 71.0% of the way there.

~ Silver Stacking ~

Unfortunately I didn't pick up much silver this past week. And by not much, I mean none. My local store usually doesn't carry rounds so I didn't expect to find any of those, but there was nothing else except old Japanese coins this time. Old coins that I already have many copies of, so the idea of more isn't so exciting.

So instead I put the ¥5000 I might have spent on silver towards BTC instead. If we are indeed at the start of a new bull-run, that may be the better move anyway. I thought silver might be catching fire for a moment, but it seems to be headed back down. The silver chart for the past month looks like this:

That's not bad! It would have been better if it had kept going up instead of dipping back down, but it's still an improvement. Remember, just a month ago we were thinking it might fall below $20.

Anyway, I did find a cool silver coin that I'm going to order. Next year is the year of the dragon on the Asian zodiac, and many places have already started with their dragon designs for next year. I was browsing the other day and this one from Australia really jumps out at me.

^{Photo from Providentmetals.com}

That water spraying from the mouth is a little strange, but the rest of the design looks cool anyway! Anyway, I'm going to find a place that ships cheaply to Japan and then I'm going to order it. Click on the link under the photo to see more details about it.

~ HSBI Drawing ~

That stuff out of the way, let's do our SBI drawing! If you are new here, I give away 5 shares of SBI every week to commenters on this post. If I get under five commenters, I try to divide it up as best as possible, and if I get over five, I do a random drawing.

So how about this week? Let's see... last post we had comments from @kerrislravenhill @mypathtofire @bozz @atyh @silverd510 @bitcoinflood @pardinus @rzc24-nftbbg @cmplxty @dkid14 @silversaver888 @moisesjohan @dewabrata @melbourneswest @bitcoinman @oasiskp2 @stekene @jfang003 @littlebee4 @mdasein @vaynard86 @stickupboys @geneeverett.

And the winners are...

@melbourneswest @moisesjohan @rzc24-nftbbg @geneeverett @littlebee4!

Congratulations, everyone!

And forward we go! It was a strong week. Let's see how this one goes!

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David LaSpina is an American photographer and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku. He blogs here and at laspina.org.