About 23 days ago, I started a crazy challenge in which I plan to reach my yearly hive goals by powering up 3172 hive in 28 days. There are now 5 days remaining until the end of the year.As of today, I have 71'305 Hive powered up on my main account. This means that I'm still 695 Hive shy of reaching my target. With 5 days remaining, the time is short.

Since the day when I joined the blockchain, I saw a lot of projects, apps, games coming into life and a big majority of them disappeared after a period of time. We have a lot of very creative people here on hive and it's rather easy to build something. The problem is when it comes into the long term, when the project needs to be updates, when server costs have to be paid, when the UI needs to be redesigned, when there needs to be a customer support or when FAQ have to be written.

A couple of weeks ago, the hive-engine team announced the implementation of linking hive-engine to the Solana blockchain. This has several implication for hive. First of all, there is now a wrapped version of Solana on hive, called swap.sol. The second is that you can withdraw and deposit Solana from and to hive-engine. Thereby opening the whole Solana ecosystem to hive users and at the same time opening the hive ecosystem to Solana users.

On the 3rd of December, I set out to add 3172 Hive to my stake to reach my yearly goal of 72'000 Hive Power before the year is over. This somewhat crazy December challenge is still ongoing. I made my last update about a week ago. At the time, things were looking good but since then things have changed a bit.

A week ago, I started my ambitious challenge to power up 3172 Hive until the end of the year and thereby reaching my goal of 72'000 Hive power.I have to say that I believe more and more that I can reach my target. I had started by powering up existing liquid Hive and HBD. After that, things looked a bit more bleak because I didn't really know from where to take especially with Hive prices going up quite strongly.

On the 3rd of december, I started my very ambitious challenge to power up 3172 Hive Power until the end of 2024. So far things are going pretty well. Since my last post 4 days ago, I managed to power up 692 Hive. Over the whole duration of the challenge, 1018 Hive were powered up.