My curation returns are pretty bad too, but I do see them going up almost daily.
This account is still very small, so I’m still upvoting at 100%. I’m going to keep it that way at least until I got 150 hive power, but maybe I just keep it at a 100% until it stabilizes.
I think that with my current 135 hive power, there are still times where my 100% upvote is worth nothing due to other people’s votes.
At some point that should no longer be the case I hope.
My stats are based on around 36K active HP, I can't remember the exact weight where I started to notice 'decent earnings' - it was around 10K I think.
It does require a fair whack of investment!
That it does indeed.
I started this account as an experiment to show you can build an investment portfolio without putting in any money.
As a result I’m growing with 1 hive per day or so through blogging and then a bunch of hive-engine tokens as well.
My curation rewards are about 0.015 hive daily, so that is a big gap 😜
Correction 1 hive per day
Well it is possible to earn without investing,
But I think the big votes only come when you buy-in - I'm sure certain whales add you to their autovotes as a sort of reward for buying-in, maybe, I'm not sure!
Yes, and I would advise people who believe in the success of this blockchain to buy in. But I’ve decided to show at least for this year, that you can do it without a buy-in up front.
I can imagine some whales indeed choosing their auto upvotes based on the buy-in of an account.
All is registered, so it would be not too hard to filter for these things.