Earlier today I brought some #POB bringing my #ProofOfBrain investment to 10,000 POB. This was the last goal I had on my HIVE bucket list.
So, lets see, I now have 5900 HIVE ... making me a HIVE dolphin. I also have enviable stack of HE coins including 20k CENT, 75K CCC, 90K VYB, 100K PEPE, 30K STEM ... etc.
Quite frankly, I really am not interested in accumulating any more HE coins.
Looking outside HIVE, I see that I have two accounts with a total of 620 STEEM. I have no desire to buy STEEM.
I also decided to look at my Blurt account. Blurt charges a fee for activities. The picture shows that my upvote is worth 0.140 BLURT. Half the reward goes to the curator and half to the author. I would receive 0.7 for the upvote. The fee is 0.076. That means I would lose 0.006 per upvote.
I need to have about 4,400 BLURT for my account to go positive.
My BLURT goal is to get my account above the minimum goal. So, it is just a matter of buying some SWAP.BLURT on HIVE-Engine and swapping the funds BLURT.
This seems like a simple matter.
I've tried achieving this goal in the past. I bought SWAP.BLURT on HIVE-Engine. I then used the HIVE-Engine withdraw which sent the coins to @graphene-swap. @graphene-swap never deposited the money on Blurt!
If you looked through my HE Explorer Account you would see that I sent 4487.307 SWAP.BLURT to @graphene-swap. I've received only 2447.678 BLURT in exchange. That is a 2039.629 deficit.
Specifically, @graphene-swap failed to complete this transaction for 2000 SWAP.BLURT for 2000 BLURT.
I had similar problems with @blurtlink.
HIVE-Engine Explorer shows that I had three transactions where I sent 1000 BLURT to @blurtlink. Blurt was suffering disruptions at the time. They completed the first transaction. Returned the second transaction and kept the third.
The BLURT I purchased on Steem-Engine disappeared.
So, I've lost over 3000 BLURT in attempts to transfer money to BLURT!!!!!!!
I haven't been using Blurt for the simple reason that I've been unable to transfer money to Blurt. My money keeps disappearing in swaps.
There is nothing that anyone can do about the money that disappears into swaps. It is ludicrous.
I have to admit, I wonder if I would ever be able to pull funds out Blurt.
Anyway, having just achieved my last HIVE-Engine Goal, I decided to re-examine my Blurt goal. I want to have enough BLURT POWER so that my upvote would be worth more than the voting FEE. My Blurt Wallet shows my average curation reward was 0.055. The voting fee seems to range from $0.07 to $1.10. My guess is that I need 4400 BLURT before participating in the platform. I bought some BLURT and brought the account to 3900.
I will continue to do small purchases of SWAP.BLURT on HIVE-Engine and small transfers to BLURT. If @graphene-swap doesn't steal the money, I will get there at the start of April.
BTW: I generated the picture used on this page using NightCafe. It shows an investor naively putting money in a bag. Is the bag a bait-and-switch? Will the naive investor end up holding an empty bag?
The image is so much fun that I decided to use it to mint an NFT on HiveMe.Me. It costs 1000 MEME to mint 5 editions. I will sell 4 editions of the #NFT for 280 #MEME and keep 1. 280 MEME = $0.011. I am selling the NFT at cost.
Awesome. Welcome back to Blurt.