Is Orca Still a Thing?

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I still remember the days of focusing on building our HP (previously SP) to levels that created unique classes of accounts. In fact, one of the happiest days of my digital life was when I became a Dolphin with 10k SP! It was an addiction quickly after as the Crypto Winter of 2018 allowed me to quickly continue to accumulate my stake and start to target the next step in becoming an Orca. However, with the fork, perspectives changed for me while I focused on balancing my portfolio.

As I watched it occur, I had to choose a side and while I always leaned towards the community aspect, I knew there were always trade-offs. In what I think was more luck than a genius choice (or both), I decided to follow Splinterlands at the end and grow my assets there instead for which I have not regretted. However, I believe that the success of Splinterlands alone demonstrate the value created by a Blockchain that focuses on community based engagement. This is why I have looked to refocus efforts on becoming an Orca once again.

I honestly never stopped but it was until recently that I started rebalancing assets within the ecosystem, that I have been able to accumulated more HP that could get me even closer to that goal I set years ago; 50k HP! However, I do not hear about it being an aspirational goal as it once was in the past. I do see a number of key accounts that I follow haven gotten well past 100k in fact which makes me feel like it is a goal to consider. Is being Orca still a thing? Or not?

I feel that one of the trade offs of the second layer and communities is that it has moved the focus to the different projects being built on the same underlying ecosystem. I see many other projects like LEO, CPT, SPT and others gathering large following of accumulators but feel that the HP that powers it all being left behind. Am I wrong to focus on the engine of it all, our stakes? It would not be the first time I am wrong but considering what I have seen from Splinterlands and some upcoming projects like Ragnarok and 3Speak Network, I am encouraged to refocus on becoming an Orca in short time! Already 90% there!

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It is :) but I think since vests make HP inflate its equivalent in VESTS may have shifted a tad higher than just 50k, but I'm not sure if people care about that anymore as it's easier to just count 50k HP as an orca. only 10x left to whale status I believe at 500k HP!

Early congrats on getting there!

May I suggest one thing now that I stumbled upon this post on my feed and looked at your HP activity?

I realize dlease offers nice returns but it begs the question as to why those returns are higher than other curation projects or tokens on hive-engine, one of those reasons is that most if not all of the leased HP is misused to maximize rewards taken from the rewardpool between a small group of users. I'm sure many other curators can back me on that as they're all aware of the main leasers and what their history is. So my suggestion would be that maybe delegating to other projects may yield you slightly smaller returns but in terms of the health of curation and distribution and the ecosystem it might give better returns long term which I know you're someone who focuses on that after all these years.

Anyway, hope you been well. Not trying to tell you what to do but I'm sure you've probably wondered why their APR is so much higher and where that must be coming from. (not to mention that dlease itself is a middleman with 10%+ fees)

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Thanks for the feedback! I have been looking at ways to come back and engaging more often. After the changes years ago with curation, I could never get on top of ways to improve with projects although I continued delegating to a couple that I enjoyed sharing with the community. I have a list of communities to engage with to find the best path forward for me to adapt with and surely not optimizing the ecosystem as much as I should. I woll surely be reaching out to OCD as they were a large part of my wanting to grow my account. I am still proud to stay I have never sold HIVE out right and have powered it all up so far!

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Yeah, been nice to see you grow, wish more people did the same :)

Hope you'll find the time and interest to be more active as well, curating yourself would be most optimal but I realize many are busy and thus I'd rather they delegate to curation projects that return the rewards and are trusted to use the voting power well compared to some other projects where there is no transparency or reputation on the line of what they do with it.

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This is the type of interaction that I miss and felt went away at a certain point so appreciate you taking the time to do so. I will definitely take this into consideration as I have already made up my mind to invest time once again given what seems to be another accumulation opportunity occurring. Thanks to you and the community!

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Dude, you're an Orca! that's an incredible achievement. Congrats, agree with Acidiyo I wish more people in SL would stake in Hive. Unfortunately seems that many of our SL's players are Hive skeptical.

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I think HIVE has enabled the game and ecosystem but will take time to catch on.

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These size things were emphasized with busy.org (remember that from STEEM)? We have the fish sizes now in hivebuzz but not the numbers. I have asked @arcange to bring them back in the past. Maybe I'll clout him over the head in Amsterdam so he does it.

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As these numbers evolve over time, they are displayed in my daily stats (section 8 - Distribution)

< ~549 HP>= ~549 HP>= ~5484 HP>= ~54840 HP>= ~548397 HP

PS1: I will be happy to meet you again in Amsterdam
PS2: May I ask you to support the Hivebuzz proposal as you did in previous years? Thank you!

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PS1: I will be happy to meet you again in Amsterdam

I think we are going, will chat more to you about this if I do go.

PS2: May I ask you to support the Hivebuzz proposal as you did in previous years?

Of course, will do it now.

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  1. I will be all ears
  2. Thank you for your help 👍
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About 5k to go! Definitely my short term target! Thanks!

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It's definitely still a thing and taskmaster posts form time to time about the numbers in each section and how the spread of hive is getting distributed.

I was delighted to become an orca this year after a lot of hard work and effort. It show a huge commitment to the future of the chain by holding this level of stake and it should become quite precious over time as the eco-system grows and RC becomes a lot more scarce.

The people who have reached this level tend to be the ones that have been here for a long time with a solid reputation in the community and becoming Orca is just another way to show that.

Congrats on hitting 50K and when you do push up that last little bit to Orca will get a notification from hive.buzz.

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Wow! Congrats! I guess I have some catching up to do!

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