Despite being one of the first people to sign up for this platform...

I think so at least. My profile page says I signed up in July 2016. That's pretty early, right? 4 months in or so... The genesis block was on March 24, 2016...

I am only finally now progressing to Dolphin status. Hello, fellow Dolphins!

Our football team kinda sucks, doesn't it? Is there anything we can do about that? No? Well... back to my STEEM status...

According to the statistics that @arcange regularly puts out, I now own one of only 2,185 accounts that have accumulated this much STEEM.

Woohoo!

With curation rewards bringing in 3-4 STEEM per week now in these post-HF21/22 days, I feel pretty good about this newfound status. Once the bidbots fully die off, we'll probably have some kind of price selloff, assuming the bidbot owners and delegators can't figure out anything else to do with their accumulated STEEM. But then, that's it! After that, there should theoretically be no more "downy"

(as my daughter says).

Until then, I'm just gonna keep enjoying using this blogosphere as a way to warm up everyday for all the writing that I have to get done in my daytime jobbie job. And to me, that provides incalculable use for this platform, especially with all the feedback I get on ideas that when they turn into pixels in the STEEMverse they are still just germinating in my head. That positive feedback loop is what I keep coming back for and probably also why I'll stay, even if the damn coin has no monetary value whatsoever in a few months. But let's not thing about pricing problems. That's a real "downer"

(as we used to say in high school).

For now, let me just enjoy the feeling of this nice round number right here:

How long till Orca status? Anybody who has recently taken the Dolphin -> Orca journey, please comment below. 👇