The Life Of An Angel Investor On Hive
O.k., before people critique the title too much, let me put it out there....What we have on Hive may not be exactly what the world considers 'angel investing' however to me, it's much better!
But before I get into my theories of it all, let me explain to you guys what I just did for the first time in like a year....
350 Hive, powered up....
Not a huge deal for a lot of people and yeah a bunch of us have been taking part in the Hive Power Up Days, but this is the most I've been able to power up at once in over a year. 2022 was a gong show to say the least for my family and I, and I actually had to power down last year.
I made the commitment though this year to myself, no more power downs and only up from here!
And there is a big reason why which I will explain in a minute...
So 350 more Hive Power for me to play with, earn from, curate with and....Delegate!
One of my favorite projects on Hive is.... @leofinance
I've been stacking LEO since day one and while I'm not a huge holder of it, I have a nice chunk. And one of the ways I'm building my stacks in LEO is by delegating to their curation project @leo.voter
Leo Voter is pretty special.
Not only does it do an amazing job of supporting the great content on Leo Finance, it also pays delegators around 16% APR in...LEO Tokens!
So it's a win-wn-win in my books. The LEO community wins because Leo Voter goes around and upvotes amazing content from the creators. Another win is that I'm getting around 16% APR in LEO tokens. But the biggest reason I believe this is a huge win....Token distribution for both LEO and Hive.
It all helps with decentralization!
So last night, I decided to up my delegation to Leo Voter....
Hardly a whale level delegation but again, it helps me build my stacks of LEO because...If you haven't noticed...This has been one of the most powerful projects on the blockchain for years now.
And here's where I bring up the 'angel investor' on Hive thing....
You see, we aren't all whales!
We may not have endless streams of income and crypto to drop around the community.
But what's amazing about this blockchain is that you can support the projects you believe in with delegation and then you are rewarded for it on many levels. If LEO wins, I win. Hive wins. Everyone wins!
But the biggest benefit to delegating on Hive to projects you want to support is that....You don't need permission to do it! There is no 'minimum' investment needed before you can delegate your Hive power. The benefits for doing it are countless in my opinion, and we never need to ask the powers that be, if it's o.k. that our little fish get to contribute.
That's decentralization in my opinion and that's why this blockchain is unlike ANYTHING else out there!
We all have our favorite projects on Hive. And remember, we can be rewarded for supporting them....And for supporting token distribution across the board as well.
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10k is actully sizeable and should land you at current prices anywhere from 35-40 LEO per day. Over the course of a month that's 1,050 - 1,200 LEO tokens. But what's really cool is they are liquid so unlike hive where a ton of it gets locked up you now have more freedom to choose what you would like to do with them. My hopes are we see LEO return to $0.25 this year. I know some will say $1 but I don't see that being reasonable and $0.25 stable would be a huge milestone.
Yeah I just got my first payout, was 38 LEO....I'll take that all day, every day. 25 cents would be brilliant....I think that's very doable! Would love to see it!
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I have plans to delegate to leo.voter too. I used to do delegation to indiacommunity but they stopped giving hive so kind of loss for me. So I am switching to other curators who offer hive as a reward for delegation. Powering up on regular basis definitely helps the platform. I feel the monthly powerup from hivebuzz project is appreciated for that reason.
I want the LEO, so it kills two birds with one stone for me when i power up Hive and then delegate to Leo Voter
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We are glad to read you appreciated our project @devpress
That being said, we need your help to be able to continue our work! May we ask you to support our proposal?
All you need to do is to click on the "support" button on our proposal page: https://peakd.com/proposals/248. It won't cost you anything!
Thank you.
Maybe we could call it angel investing 2.0. The delegation feature with Hive is rather extraordinary to me. And curation projects like leo.voter make things a whole lot better. Anyone can become an angel investor on Hive.
Great idea....Oh heck, lets go for the entire web 3 brand....Investing 3.0 lol
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Decentralization is the best thing we can hope for and it helps us. However, there are too many things that are decentralized. I hope Leofinance goes through that route but they are still developing. So doing something a bit more centralized now is a better move to make things less complicated.
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I think everything starts centralized, but it's what you do with it after that matters. Token distribution is how you spread it all out
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Wonderful piece @jongolson
Still trying to get a hang of everything happening on Hive
Quick question @jongolson
How can one earn Leo on Hive?🙂
Use Threads each and every day, you'll earn LEO ;)
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Hello @jongolson! I'm really sorry to hear that the power down was necessary due to personal problems, but I'm glad you're in a better situation and powering up again :)
I believe that 10k of delegation is an excellent value even for a project as big as Leo!
If you have some time later take a look at the Nexo Digital project, we are a brand new community focused on arts and culture with a curatorship program and a passive income program recently opened (started less than 2 months ago).
Delegations and investment are always welcome, but at this moment what we are most looking for support is visibility, since we are a new project and so far we have had little support from major Hive players.
I'm going to leave our whitepaper link and discord link for those who know you can be our angel and help us with this task of gaining more visibility and engagement in this beginning of the journey!
https://ecency.com/hive-167506/@nexo.digital/whitepaper-projeto-nexo-digital
https://discord.gg/QvsS9h97rj
If you want to get to know us better or have questions about the project, you can tag this profile here at Hive or look for us on our discord.
Thanks for your time :)
How much Hive have you personally invested in, that's always a great way to attract delegation.
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I'll tag the founder of the project so he can respond directly!
@lipe100dedos
Do you want to say how much delegation I have in the project's curation account and how many NEXO tokens I bought or do you want to know how much the initial cost of the project was?
If it's how much I delegate personally, it's around 60% of my HP that's not a high value because I'm not a whale (yet) but I've been trying to get my HP to the maximum and compensate with time working on the project.
As for the tokens I have been buying whenever I can, today the top 3 HOLDERS are investors from outside HIVE who created their HIVE account to invest in the project and I am encouraging and teaching them to use the social part of HIVE.
To explain the onboardings that I have tried (and sometimes succeeded) I would need a little more words and conversation, but in summary, I had a dance school for years here in Brazil that closed during the pandemic and today I run a school together with my wife and we have a very large audience and the idea is to structure events and make it easier for these people to get to know web3 and bring their content today posted on facebook and instagram on Hive.
If what you want to know are the values of the project itself, a pre-sale was made to generate a small fund with the objective of sustaining the price of our token, starting some HP of your own and starting to save on HBD, which is one of the ways to remunerate our HOLDERS.
Currently the project has around 3000SWAP.HIVE liquid that are reserved for token buyback, with more than 29200NEXO in the HOLDERS hand.
We are aware that the project is still very small and our goal is to always grow in a sustainable way, if we get support to accelerate growth that would be great, if we can't we will grow slowly but without running over processes so that the project can fulfill its goal of bringing content from quality focused on art and culture and not just having a HYPE of a new project and ending up not sustaining itself due to lack of structure.
I don't know if I told you what you would like to know, but I would love to continue this conversation on discord and hear more about your ideas, if you want, you can call me Filipe 100Dedos#6062
Anyway, thanks a lot for your time and feedback.
That's a great power up! Congrats on that! I have been lucky enough that I have never needed to power down. Plus, like we were talking about the other week, I am focusing on growing my Hive account this year. It is slow going, but I will get up there one day.
Slow and steady wins the race...Such a corny saying but I live by it lol
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Someone should write that down! 😃
I'll have to learn more about this staking thing. I can possibly tie it together with how I invest and earn the APR on top of what is potential with my strategies.
Powering up Hive and curating posts will get you around 8-10% APR. Putting HBD in savings is 20% APR as well. So many cool projects too, that's just the layer 1 options.
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Thank you sir, appreciate your support very much!
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That's a nice delegation and the ignition isn't bad either.
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Absolutely. And the more I grow, the more I hope to delegate to projects too.
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I have powering up what ever I earn and will keep doing it, didnt know you could delegate Leo and get more of it, thats nice passive income, besides Hive Im also planing to accumulate Leo, is there any other token that you can delegate to curation accounts? thx for sharing, never stop learning new things about hive ✌️
There's a bunch for sure, delegation projects that is..I'm in a few, Leo Voter and BroFi. Both give me layer 2 tokens that I'm stacking...Lots of options out there for sure :)
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The best paragraph I've read on Ecency so far...
That's really what's so amazing about this blockchain...Everyone wins on it!
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So just by delegating Hive power to Leo voter I can get an APR in Leo, is there a minimum?
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Not that I know of, but I think to get value from it it might need to be like 100 Hive Power, but I don't think there is a minium.
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In many ways, Hive takes users to another level of decentralization. As you say, no permission necessary... just do it!
When I talk to people about Web3, often times I say something to the effect of: "What it does is knock like 3 zeros off the barrier of entry to angel investing."
$100 USD is chump change to a VC.
But it could be a huge boost to a small project.
:)
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