Hello, have you ever wondered the maximum size a post can be on HIVE? There is an answer to this, im not going to look it up because I know the answer is a guess but word on the street is a HIVE block that can hold a maximum of 10-11kish words. This might sound like a lot but when we consider this is letters, spaces, formatting and the URL's for any pictures, it... well, it still sounds like alot. In fact, it is alot because it would take you a long time to read through but it's not alot at the same time because 10k words in terms of memory is nothing. If you google search "10k words into memory", the result comes back with a solid 0.1 MB of memory space. When we think about it, 0.1 MB is smaller than the file size for a low-resolution small google imagine. I guess when they say 1 picture can describe 1000 words they were not lying, well in terms of data anyways.
What's brought me here? I have a few days off work and I have been sleeping like a dog. For the past 4 days, my life has been being awake for 6-8 hours then sleeping 3-4 hours. It's leaving me feeling very fatigued all the time but im getting lots of stuff done. So anyway, this evening I put the kettle on to get the dog's dinner ready and went upstairs to talk with the misses for a minute who was watching a movie in our bedroom. Long story short, I lay down, fell asleep and woke up 4 hours later with the dog replacing the wife in the bed. That was 30 minutes ago, i've since fed the dog who was hungry, made myself a coffee and rolled a joint. It's 3.15 am and I have nothing to do. I mean I have the stuff to do but nothing I wanna do, I always have the stuff to do for SPinvest but right now im feeling like breaking HIVE and seeing how many words it takes to full a complete HIVE block. I have a tendency to enjoy writing much more when I've just woken up, no idea why but if i have been awake for 3-4 hours already, i dont enjoy writing as much. Could be the energy boost from just waking up plus caffeine, nicotine and THC from my coffee and spliff. That probally has something to do with it. Where im i? 420 words. What are the chances that "420" is the 420th word in this post. Im on a roll and almost 5% the way finished.
What bought me here this evening? Free time plus an old desire to upload a post big enough to full a complete HIVE block.
Very BOSS if you ask me
I challenge you to do the same and break the blockchain. All you gotta do I ramble for 11-12k words and then try to upload it. You aim to write too much and you want it to "fail upload" to confirm to have written a post too big to upload. After here, you cut 100 words and try to upload. If it fails, cut 100 words try again. Repeat this until it uploads and then you'll know you'll have got in the most you can. It's not an exact science but I'd guess your post will be 99& of the block. Anyways, that's what im going to be doing with this post. Im going to aim for 12k words and then start trying to upload. Of course, you might be smarter than me and can think of a much better way using some code are tracking dapp. Maybe there's a character countdown somewhere im not aware like, kinda like how we have on TXT messages. Maybe not but that would be handy right now.
I challenge you to break the blockchain!! and max out a HIVE block with your content just for bragging rights.
Let's get this shit show on the road, I've outlined briefly my idea and plan for this post above and now it's time to get the bulk of the work done by adding lots of words, lots and lots of words and characters to make this post big. I could cheat and do stupid shit like count to 10. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and that's 30 characters gone but that lame. Im guessing there will be tons of spelling mistakes and grammar errors in this post as there is no way on God green Earth that I will be going back through this post looking for them. I'll run Grammarly over it but that misses things sometimes. I use the free version so I dont get all the features but I ain't paying for it. To be honest I dont think that many people will actually read through the whole post. I'd take a guess and say that most will maybe read to about here in the post and then scan the rest of the post while scrolling to the comments at the bottom and hopefully leave a juicy upvote. I do the same, it's nice to see people write super long posts jammed full of fantastic information but to be honest, im scanning most posts and cherry-picking out the information I wanna see. If I check out a post, any post, im only taking in 10-20% of the content even if it's something im really interested in. I dont consume content the way I used to before when I used to read each word. I tend to read the key parts of a post now and then think for a few minutes. Maybe im getting older, maybe im just not into reading as much anymore, maybe im bored of reading the same crap over and over. Not just on HIVE, even with the crypto news apps I use and my news feed on my phone, everything kinda just repeats the same stories over and over and im not learning anything new.
So it's not very often I get this amount of time to just sit and do nothing so why not? Writing this many words sounds like a big challenge but im already almost 10% of the way in and from here on out, I dont even gotta make sense of what im writing because most people will not have made it to here. So right now, my coffee is long gone and I put out my spliff around 10 minutes ago. I have youtube loaded up on my other screen playing a randomly selected Joe Rogan podcast and im about good to go. All I gotta do is grab a bottle of water and roll another quick spliff and then I'll get knuckled down into this post.
Ok, now I have that sorted let's get this done. My water is super cold which I love. I like to drink a bottle of water after a coffee, the colder the better. I see people drinking coffee back to back and im blown away, If I drink 2 coffee's within a few hours, I get sweaty and my hands will start to shake a little so water for me. Spliff is nice as well, I love a fresh spliff. Looking at my weed jar, it's near empty and there are around 4-5 days worth in there at most so I need to get top-up delivered before the weekend. I get my weed from the dark web and the guy I use is on vacation until the 10th of Jan so I log in yesterday to get my top up to see that's changed it to the 17th. It's a kick in the balls because now im going to have to use a new guy which I dont like because there's a certain risk you'll get scammed and lose your BTC. To be really honest, I've never lost BTC buying weed but I'm very careful with who I pick to use. Think eBay with no rules and no Paypal money-back guarantee, it sounds like the wild west but there are alot of very professional people selling weed online. I've gone through maybe 6 suppliers in the past 2 years due to websites getting shut down and they've all delivered the next day and I've never had a package go missing either. One time, a package was late and the guy gave me a £20 off my next order voucher. YES, they have MONEY OFF WEED vouchers, mind blown. So there you have it, now you know im running out of weed and having to buy from a new person which is annoying me. I'll probably do that after I do this. It's 4.10am so 5-6 hours until sellers will be able to ship anything out at the earliest.
Right now, im starting to feel a little hungry. I wish I had some of those pancakes from work but I've been off 4 days already so I have not been at work to bring more home. I do like making the pancakes at work, I must have made 30 different types of pancakes just pissing about with different things. So the guys at work like to bring pancakes home to eat before they go to bed are for their kids to have before school so I always make up the extra batter. Every day, I make extra plain pancakes but with most of the extra batter I'll do something different that's not sent out to customers. Depending on how im feeling and how busy it is at work, this can lead to anything from banoffee swirl and white chocolate pancakes to fruit-filled (fresh fruit) rolled up crispy pancakes. Recently I did some gingerbread pancakes and topped them with some dark rum flavoured icing. Here's a picture of some of them, check out the wee gingerbread man I found in the decorating supply room.
I sure do making pancakes, I joke with the guys that when I retire I am going to write a book called "100 ways to make pancakes". Im encouraged at work to piss around and create new things and I like playing about so I've tried alot of whacky things, some were genius and others went into the bin before any of the other guys could try them. lol. In my work, we are a small team of 7-8 people with 5 of us being time served bakers. It's a small bakery so we have a lot of freedom and the boss buys the best ingredients so each baker has their own thing. Im the pancake guy, I make tons of different types of pancakes, it's my thing that I do for everyone else. The head baker is the pizza guy, every couple of weeks, we'll see that he's bought in some sliced meat are some polish sausage and we'll know it's pizza night. Every baker has something they make for everyone else every couple of weeks. It's a nice set-up and we get to try lots of new things.
For pancakes, I've made about every flavour I can with the some I have at my disposal. So we have 6 different types of chocolate in my work, there's white, milk, dark, mint, ruby and carmel but then there are 4-5 different types of dark chocolate depending on the coco % and what are mini M&M's? The fridges are filled with fresh fruits like strawberries, raspberries, passion fruits, bananas, blueberries, pomegranates, grapes, apples and sometimes other season stuff like comes from the boss's garden like rhubarb, plums or peaches. Then the decorating end has all tons of cool shit to play including flavours, chocolate, candy, nuts, dried fruits and all that good stuff. As you can guess, I mix and match alot of these things into creating some of the best freaking pancakes anyone has ever made. I starting to get a little bored of writing about pancakes and it's making me hungry. Im tempted to go and make a small batch now for eating, I work off a 30 pancakes batch but I could break it down to 1/5 to make 6 for myself. Let's see, 240g of soda flour, 100g of sugar, 3g of baking powder and a pinch of salt would do it. Mix that together and then add 2 eggs and 180ml of buttermilk. I only have normal full fat milk but we work with what we have. So, im going to make some pancakes. Im 2094 words into this bitch and I dont think I can do another 10k words without food. If I stop to make pancakes I think I'll return not motivated to finish this off so I should really keep going. I'll down my bottle of water and trick myself into thinking im full and then grab something quick in an hour. If I stop now, I'll not finish and im only 1/6th of the way in. Not bad all the same as I've only been talking about writing a long post, how I get my weed and pancakes.
What has been the buzz on HIVE recently? Oh, the airdrops for 3speak and the game with the same name as that Thor movie. I knew nothing of either of them really, I did used to use 3speak back in the day when I was uploading weekly SPinvest update videos but I had lots of problems uploading and ended up using youtube. I think there was an internal team with the team/dev's fighting with each other are some bullshit. Either way, the site was working shit back then and I stopped using it. It could be better now, I might check it out for a nosey but I dont think I'll be going back to making videos again. I was recording for 30 minutes, editing for 5-6 hours and sometimes getting under 5 views. The content was very niche so I was blocking myself out when we consider not many people use 3speak back then. I have not looked into the use cases for this SPK token yet but im guessing it's like a tribe token and will perform like one. Maybe they have some cool use cases but I've not looked into it. As for the Thor game, I have not looked into it at all because I dont really play games so im only really interested in the airdrop. Im not even that interested in the airdrop but I'll get the airdrop so I'll check it out when it comes. Im, sure there will be 2 million posts about how to claim your airdrop when the time comes. It's always a race to see who can get the first tutorial post/video out as it's easy content that will get lots of views and upvotes. Everyone remembers back to back CUBfinance launched and there were at 200 posts over the next month about how to use it, everyone repeating to same content with the spin-off. I guess everyone is just super excited to get something for nothing and be part of a brand new project on the ground floor. Im still using CUBfinance for my personal holdings, I mean the price has gone to hell but it's doing what it is supposed to do. I mostly hold positions in the BTC/BNB and BNB/BUSD kingdoms. I claim rewards mostly weekly and convert them to BNB.
For someones that runs a few investment projects on HIVE, my personal asset allocations are fairly simple. , I'd say 20-25% is in precious metals, 5% is in stocks and the remaining 60-65% is in crypto-related holdings. I dont hold tons of different cryptos either, the bulk being BTC, SPI, ETH and stables in that order. I could liquidate all these easy enough, SPI might take a few days because I hold a bunch but then again I dont see a time when I'll have to exit a large amount more than SPI can handle. I do believe in holding alot of my own fund tokens, I think it shows that I really believe in it. I do believe in it and if I see people selling SPI's on hive-engine for 75-80% of their true value, I'll probably buy them because it's the same as paying 80 cents for a dollar. SPI offer's a 95% buyback that will be sorted within a few hours but people would rather list them for 80% of their time value and then wait days are weeks to get the orders filled. That shit is funny to me. More recently I have not been buying any because I already have just over 15% of the tokens in circulation and I think that's enough. I bought all my SPI's from my own funds, I am not compensated in any way to run SPinvest other than to increase the price of the token. I own alot because I believe it will be worth alot more in the future. When launched, each SPI was worth 40 cents, the price of HIVE declined and SPI bottomed out at 13 cents. Today, each SPI is worth 2.5 HIVE are roughly $3.50. Either way, it's up to 2.5x on HIVE and over 20x on its dollar price. I plan to sell alot of SPI's liquid holdings into stables to holding until the price of everything drops 60% plus. If I can sell 20,000 HIVE for SPI when HIVE is $3 (assuming the bull run is not over), that would be $60,000 in stables. We hold these stables for 2 years while earning say 8% to give us near $70,000 and when the price of HIVE goes to under 50 cents again, we load up on 140,000 HIVE and wait for the next bull run. I guess alot of SPI and LBI investors see me doing things and dont understand why I do it and dont think about my long term goal of buying back in.
If you look at the SPI wallet, you'll see 20,000 liquid HIVE just sitting there not doing anything. I hold it there so that when HIVE moons, we have it at hand to convert into dollars. Your thinking, what? Your a HIVE backed fund and your selling HIVE, burn him at the stake. I am aware I could be using that to earn a shit ton of daily income on something like beeswap but im not prepared to convert HIVE into something else are pair it off against another token because of IL. All I can say is that every investment has 2 parts, 1 to buy and 1 to sell. In this case, it's the other way round because we sell HIVE and then buy it back. I have not done this before for SPI because this is once in a market cycle stuff and it's not been in operation long enough. I do believe that I'll be able to flip 20,000 HIVE into at least 100,000 in 2-3 years. ANyways, it makes sense on paper, I hope it plays that way because a few sell orders within the next months and buying back into the market at a later date could make SPI hella rich and push SPI's from a 6 figure fund to a 7 figure one. That's the hope anyway, I dont see why it will not happen. The biggest thing is waiting. Not much can go wrong with selling toward the end of the bull market and buying back in during the next crypto winter when everything is 90% down and just holding again until the next bullrun. You can take all your complex defi compounding plans and stick them up to your ass. The best thing to do is just earn, HODL and do 1 big flip every market cycle. Time is the key. If you invest into solid projects/crypto's...
I have all seen these jive assed turkeys on discord are writing posts about how they are making a killing on some defi earning 1000% APY. These same turkeys will always be broke because they chase a dream that requires alot of luck. We've all seen from CUBfinance that the price of the farm token will drop off massively, this is very common with farm tokens but people for some reason always think the one they are invested in is different. Reminds me of the time i was living in Thailand running a bar and i'd see a guy walk in loved up with some hooker he'd been seeing/paying for 2 weeks. I could not count how many of these guy told me their "girlfriends” were different”I had 1 girl work for me had 3 boyfriends, lol. How many people were saying "im APING into staking CUB's hard" when the price dropped from $3 down to $2. Others would comment "can't go wrong earning a 150% APY" but it could go wrong and it did go wrong for many people. Mostly smaller investors fall into this trap, blinded by the high APY's and dreams of an easy life. The best thing to do is sell that shit and convert it into something that is good. Im not talking about CUBfinance, im talking about all farms. The secret to winning is dont buy the farm token and sell the farm token when you get it. Dont HODL that shit because you'll lose your money. Earning 150% of a CUB kingdom is cool when CUB is priced at $3 each but if the price drops 90% to 30 cents, the same 150% is not that great anymore. You're best using proper cryptos for staking to ensure you are not compounding shit on top of itself. That's my 2 cents on the subject, I keep most of my crypto on platforms like Nexo because it's truly passive income and sometimes 5% on BTC are ETH can be much more profitable long term compared to "fake" high APY's, blockchain fees and impermanent lose that farming offers.
The way I think about it is if I earn 0.05 BTC from 1 BTC this year worth around $2000 and BTC