When I was new at Hive, I experienced it quite often, sometimes rightly and sometimes definitely not. It led to me disappearing for some weeks or months, but every time I came back.
Nowadays, I don't have such expectations anymore. Or atleast not that high. I am already happy when I get $5 worth of upvotes for lenthy posts. Why are such rewards already fine for me? I am rather sure that one day Hive will climb in value to atleast $1, so a 3x from its current price. That would mean that the rewards I earn at the moment are worth $15 instead of $5, thus all good! :D
It's always good to have to big picture in mind and not concentrate on the small amounts that we earn.
I remember in 2014, I was claiming BTC from faucets. At the time I could get 1000 stoshis per claim which was around 0.001 cent. Today, this would be worth 0.51 $ per claim and I claimed probably 20 - 50 times per day. In hindsight, I made quite a nice amount of money then :-)
Slowly but steadily we'll get there! Once the bull is in full force, these pennies will have some decent value! :D
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