Saturday Savers 2025 Progress Report - Week 21

It's Saturday again, and that makes it time for my weekly #SaturdaySavers update.

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Here's my table of progress for the week;

How Did The Week Go ?

This was the week when I hit the wall. After breaking my posting streak last week, I hardly posted at all this week. Real world issues and sheer exhaustion caught up with me. I even fell asleep on the sofa and missed BPUD 😢

I know it means that next week's earnings will be poor, but having a short break has helped me reset and come back refreshed with a few post ideas.

Just taking away the pressure to post daily to keep up a streak is also surprisingly helpful. It's made me realise that my big earner on Hive is actually the HBD interest.

Author and curation earnings are nice, but definitely take second place to HBD earnings. That's a useful refocus; it's made me realise I should post because I want to, not because it's a chore. Additionally, my motivation for curation is about supporting my Hive friends, not actually earning enough to live on.

Looking at Hive overall, the reality is that the people earning the big money are the top 20 witnesses and those with the coding ability and influence to be able to run projects funded by the DHF. I must admit that I'd still prefer the DHF to be more of a loan-giver than a grant-giver, with the exception of core coding of course. But it is what it is. I think it's unlikely to change, but I also think it's reasonable that people putting in significant effort are compensated for it.

Now, I don't have the knowledge or ability to code, or the time to learn. But it's just possible I might find time to learn how to run a node. It depends on on a key meeting I have at the start of next week, and also whether I'm able to switch one of my spare high-ish spec PC's from Windows to Linux.

It occurs to me that a Hive Engine light node might be a good starting point. Being horribly mercenary about it, there's far less competition compared to people running nodes on Hive itself, so the earnings might be a little better. Plus Hive Engine does seem to be in need of more people running nodes to improve resilience. It's just a shame that votes come from holding WORKERBEE tokens. They are (as far as I know) purely a Hive Engine node voting token and don't do anything else or deliver revenue to holders.

So that's how my life's going.... I hope you're all having great weekends !

If you're not familiar with SaturdaySavers, it's a fabulous initiative run by @shanibeer writing as @sally-saver on the @eddie-earner account, where we all support each other in getting to our savings goals.

If you are one of my friends reading this (or just someone who tripped over one of my posts), I really recommend this as a great community that's well worth joining.

I'm normally very disorganised about saving, and the support of the wonderful people in #SaturdaySavers has been invaluable in keeping me focused. I can honestly say that without it, my HP would probably be half what it is now.

So join ! You don't have to wait until the start of the year. The best time to start saving is ten years ago. The second best time is right now !