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Happy Saturday everyone! I hope you are enjoying your weekend so far and that you aren't at work. This morning so far I have enjoyed some coffee in my backyard before heading out to some garage sales not too far away from where I live. These I was excited about, as they were in nicer neighborhoods. I picked up some LEGOs at one but the others were a bust. At least it was fun!

Now I'm on my second cup of coffee and decided to put together a post for week in review. It has been an interesting week full of ups and downs in the crypto markets. I'm looking forward to a few weeks full of nothing but up on the charts, maybe before the end of the year?

Bitcoin

We have seen better weeks in the world of Bitcoin, that being said, we have seen much worse ones as well. It's still holding a strong support price above $110,000 which is fantastic. There was a nice price pump last night followed by a large increase in volume probably indicative of profit taking. Hopefully in the next week we will see some more support and push through the all time high and manage to find solid support above $120,000!

coingecko.com, you can see the volume with the associated price decline from sells

Most of the alt coins made some impressive gains as well along with this BTC pump. Hive even is up around $0.213, a small gain but nothing in comparison to the other alts up more than 5%. Hive is still a bit behind the other alts which is disappointing. We shall see how it fares during the next major BTC push northward. It would be nice to see Hive about $0.40 again!

Last week I mentioned that LEO had been on a strong climb for some time, but was having an early correction. The price has gone from $0.26 down to $0.12, but the price appears to be stabilizing. Hopefully, we won't see it decline any further, but it was a very rough week for LEO token...

Screenshot from Hive Engine

Moving onto my Hive goals for the year... I joined the Saturday Savers group to help me achieve my goals here on Hive more expeditiously. It really has helped! This month the group is on hiatus, but I thought I'd include an update anyway.

Completed Goals so far in 2025

Hive Power

My primary goal of the year was to reach 10,000 HP which I already surpassed a couple weeks ago. I am up 119 HP on the week which is a little less than I had hoped. But I'll take it!

HP 10,417 (104% complete)
Goal: 10,000

I still have my Power Guardian badge having never powered down, I think it's pretty cool!

PIMP

This was my secondary goal of the year and felt great to achieve it. It's a token backed by physical silver and BTC, and has an awesome community as well!

PIMP: 58,511 (117% complete)
Goal: 50,000

I'm staking some of my earning now as well as putting some in liquidity pools to earn more tokens.

LEO

I'm continuing to delegate to leo.voter to earn LEO tokens, however, the price has come down significantly as I mentioned previously. We will see what is going to happens in the coming days on those LEO charts. It looks to be stabilizing at $0.12.

LEO: 5,350 (107% complete)
Goal: 5,000

PIZZA

This was nice to finish up. I get 15 tips a day to use as a bonus and occasionally a curation as well!

PIZZA: 1,606 (106.8% complete)
Goal: 1,500

DUO

DUO: 2,270 (113.5% complete)
Gol: 2,000

I picked up quite a few DUO this week at cheap prices and will the same this week. It's an awesome token! The next section will get you more info on DUO, it a great token to invest in!

DUO

Coming up on a year ago now, I started a token project with @bulliontools and @bitcoinman called DUO token. If you stake 200 DUO you receive daily Hive dividends and a curation on your quality posts once a day. For those who stake 500 or more you are able to tip someone else's post with some DUO, in return you receive the same amount of the tip in your account as well. The more DUO you stake, the higher your daily dividends.

My current holdings: 2,270
Goal completed as seen above!

We have opened up another day to offer guest posting on our @duo-curator . Just check the last update post for details on how to participate. It benefits newer authors as they can earn more and get more exposure. We are also about to start our first campaign to recruit new members. I'll share more once the plan is finalized.

If you haven't started to invest in DUO, you can use these links to get started:

https://tribaldex.com/trade/DUO
https://hive-engine.com/trade/DUO

POB

It's been awhile since I talked about POB. I don't actively buy the token but do use it in post tags to earn. I then stake the earned tokens and delegate them to pob.voter . In return once a week I get a liquid Hive dividend payed out to me! Not too bad a deal in my eyes.

POB delegated to pob.voter: 1,681
This week's liquid Hive dividend: 0.157 Hive

It won't make you rich, but it is free Hive!

PAKX

This is one of my favorite projects out there on Hive. Each unit of PAKX is backed by two Hive, so each unit produced is backed by at least two Hive. In the future the plan is to increase that backing to a higher number of Hive per unit. Once you hold more than 10 you can receive daily dividends of liquid Hive and a daily curation on quality posts. Plus as a huge bonus you can tip someone else's great post with a tip that provides curation.

It directly helps support the Hive Pakistan community to recruit and retain new talented authors here on Hive which is a very positive goal in my mind!

Goal: 100
Currently held: 69.425 (69.4% complete)

EDSI

I'm continuing to delegate 2500 HP the @eds-vote . This is earning me weekly EDSI tokens and curations, if you can spare the HP I highly recommend the investment.

EDSI: 168.87 (84.4% complete)
Goal: 200

I'll likely need to supplement my tokens earned with some purchases to reach 200, but I'll decide that later in the year.

CCD

I'm slowly working my way to one million CCD. I bought 20K this week at a good price and little by little I plan to continue. One big perk of staking this token is that once you stake 100K you can claim a free HSBI months, at 500K one twice a week, and at one million once daily. You can also receive curations on quality post that are manually curated.

I do delegate HP to @cryptocompany to earn free CCD tokens as well.

CCD currently held: 576,000 (57.6% complete)
Goal: 1,000,000

Precious Metals

I've been a collector of coins and precious metals since my youth and it's an important part of my life. Today I'll review some of the best metals in which to invest (in my opinion anyway!)

Silver

Silver finished the week strongly and is slowly headed back toward $40 per Troy ounce. I still think it's undervalued and wouldn't be surprised to see it hit $50 the end of the year. Just my humble opinion! Just a couple years ago it was under $20 per Troy ounce, so you can see it really is surging up in price.

Silver over the last five days:

Gold

Gold is slowly pushing it's way back to $3400 per Troy ounce. There are many government and people continuing to buy up gold anticipating much higher prices down the line. I think it might yet hit $4000 per Troy ounce by the end of the year depending on how the world's politics work out this year. Investing in gold is always a smart move!

Gold over the last week:

Chart from buisnessinsider.com

Every week I like to share a deal I found on silver or gold. This deal of the week I found on APMEX.com:

From APMEX.com

The 1968 Mexican Olympics 25 pesos coin, guaranteed to be about uncirculated or uncirculated for on $22.38 each. That's 64% off of the normal premium price. Not too bad! If you looking for an inexpensive way to start investing in silver this isn't a bad deal and it's a cool Mexican coin! I personally own a few of these already, such a cool design on the reverse (back) with the eagle with the rattlesnake perched on a prickly pear cactus!

Investing in precious metals is a great way to build your wealth not only for yourself but for your children!

That will wrap up this edition of my Hive Goals and #saturdaysavers . Please feel free to leave any questions or comments below. I want to thank each and every one of you for all of your support, I greatly appreciate it. I couldn't have come as far as I have on Hive without your help! Have a great weekend everyone!

References:

https://www.apmex.com/product/11466/1968-mexico-silver-25-pesos-olympics-au-bu

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin

https://www.kitco.com/charts/silver

https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/gold-price

Disclaimer

I am not a financial planner and this isn't financial advice. Please always do your own research before investing your money. You worked hard enough to earn it!

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DUO Token

This is a token from the Hive Onboarding Committee (HOC). It offers curation, dividends, and a tipping bot for those who stake enough tokens. The overall purpose of the token is to stack enough HP to be able to assist the HOC in onboarding and retaining new members to Hive.

Please check out the white paper: https://peakd.com/pimp/@hive-193566/duo-white-paper

You can find DUO for sale here:

https://tribaldex.com/trade/DUO
https://hive-engine.com/trade/DUO

If you are interested in precious metals or even want to learn more about them feel free to come join us #silvergoldstackers

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