This is correct time to accumulate rather than freaking out. But liquidity of steem is important for growing of community know?....Most of the steem is accumulated in steemit accounts as SP and only some steem is rotating which is not welcoming for newbies..

My account growth is pretty slow, but I keep plugging away at it, hoping to accumulate more SP.  With no fiat available to invest in steem, I suspect my growth will continue to be slow, but as Cope says, "it is what it is".

I'll be happy to see you hit 8k, and I don't doubt you'll do it. Credit where it's due, you're a prime example of what to shoot for on Steemit, and by far in my top favorites to follow in terms of content and conversation.

I started enjoying myself more here when I stopped looking at the price tag. Doing so defers you from the community and the mindset you need to be in to actually make it work in your favor. The ebb and flow is part of the game. When you stop constantly checking your wallet/coinmarketcap, you get far fewer disappointments, more frequent pleasant surprises, and a much more authentic, positive agenda.

As always, thanks for the read!

Think I can get to 10k before you get to 8k? I'm only about 1400 ahead now so I'd need to gain some ground.

So true!
Oh man, your SP just sucked out more than 0,70 cent out of my upvote ;)
But you & your posts are worth it , and i set myself the goal for min. 1000 SP for 2018! Let's go! ;)

"Because those few brave ones that stayed, those who kept on posting, those who kept on participating of the platform, those who didn't slow down, but the opposite did more. Those are some of the "big accounts" you see today."

"What does that tell you? Is this maybe a short term tragedy, but a long term opportunity?"

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> If you are on coinmarketcap hitting refresh every two minutes, then you are hurting your soul.

Even twice a day is too much for me, esp. when I look back to 2014 and imagine doing **** differently :(

I asked someone who used to convert their STEEM to fiat every week ...why are they doing that instead of HODLing.

They told me that it helps them meet the ends of living expense and they can't afford to not cash it out...

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>them bills gots em

It's fun posting a comment and reading others article but it's more fun seeing your sp grow day by day.

You're just the daily cup of motivation I need to get my psyche up for the day! I'll have tou know it's #MinnowUprisingJuly, organized by @taskmaster4450, the goal is to leverage the platform as minnows and get as much of the reward pool as we can get. The target was to mobilize atleast 10,000 minnows to take part and post atleast 3-4 posts per day however I haven't seen many people take part which is rather unfortunate. I am averaging atleast 3 posts per day so far, aiming for 4-5 in the coming week to hit my 120 monthly goal.

It's motivating to know you actually did 5K in 10 month! Did you ever invest anything from your own pocket? By October I would like to be at least half way to being a dolphin if not one. So 2500SP is the goal! 

Cheers M.

Preach!!!

Yeah man, I love posts like this because it reminds everyone that reads it...Now is the time to push forward, stock up and not retreat.  

A big chunk of those with the larger account totals did so not when SBD and STEEM were 7 bucks...But when it was 7 cents.

There are days I cross my fingers for a dip so I can buy more than I budget for lol But then I start getting greedy and want to see STEEM back at 5 bucks...

Regardless, stick with it! You'll be glad you did...

Can I do this too? Can I, since I've Been here honestly I did no know nothing, anyone told me how to use this network even I thought @cheetah was a good friend of mine.

But honestly sometimews I think that I can, it´s too hard, some user are mean and doesn´t know that they are breaking the system.

A system that gives good friends, good news, good content.

8K is a lot and someday I´ll be there, I hope you be 88K when I´ll be on my 8K´s.

Well if I got an upvote of a whale on a 100 % maybe I´ll be on 88K and you on 8K.

Everything is possible on Steemit

>Hence why other's grew faster than me, because they understood the dynamics better.

This is where I need to improve. I have a very rough understanding of how the platform operates and in order to take full advantage I need to dig a little deeper. 

Once I come back from vacation I will definitely start paying more attention to contest because you are the second person I've seen make that recommendation.

>My goal is to get to 8K SP when October rolls around.

With luck, we’ll have *another* Steem crash between now and then. 😏

I doubt I’ll hit 8K by October, but maybe by the end of the year?

I am trying Dlive but so far no upvotes yet lol hahahhaha 

But you are right meno this is the time to get accumulating! I am almost at 1k SP

I completely agree that we should take advantage of these prices to become more active and get more access to SP at these prices.  I have definitely notice a pick up in the amount of SP I’m getting from curation even whixh has motivated me to remain active despite rewards coming down.  However, I think it is unfortunate how many users cannot understand these concepts and quickly become demotivated and stop engaging.  More posts like yours are needed!  Thanks!

>My goal is to get to 8K SP when October rolls around

That's a great goal to head for, but unless you are quite rich or want to take gambles (like me very recently), then you will need to:

A) Hope STEEM plummets in the next few months
B) Buy it now if you think we are near the bottom.

Either way, I give you applause, as you are on the same wavelength as me.

In relation to:

>Participate of the #openmic, get your blog on @steempress, learn to upload on @dtube on @dlive.

Yes, that too... I can sing (or so my wife tells me!).. but cant play.. so no OpenMic for me.. steempress? I have been using esteem but am up for trying it, dtube and dlive...? maybe dsound first... I need to start off easy. 

They are all incentives though... I wish tasteem would return.

Powering up is the right thing to do. I'm doing all I can to build my account, it has been difficult but I prefer to have a vision for the future instead of being afraid for the current situation with cryptos

very good. I will help you with some comment curation :)

Well as long as we're all still here, I'm game. Gotta stick with an oldie but goodie:

Ffs, don't invest more than you're willing to lose. It's still a risk in the end.

But I think we've evaluated the risk and we believe in the platform, and that's why we are willing to put more.

As long as there is a healthy active base, and that base is increasing, there is hope. I know there seem to be scary numbers about retention rates but I haven't fully dug through them to know if they are saying anything meaningful or not. I don't really care if big whales are powering down if more active users have appeared. But let's see.

yes! always a hopeful voice. i, too, am accumulating and would love to reach 5k by the end of my first year! (will be in december) also with the steem price low, usually we get more SP and steem in payouts, which is actually more lucrative (given the price rises again) than in the high steem price days. it makes sense for me to just keep plugging away and accumulate! cannot believe that past massive price drop though- the people who persevered through that deserve every steem!!!