We finally made itTonight a big pump finally threw HIVE above those important $0.50! We are currently trading at about 56 Cents with a very high volume of 800M within the last 24h. That is almost 4x HIVEs‘ market cap! Crazy.

Handelsblatt Artikel[GER]An diesem Beispiel sieht man wieder sehr schön, wie bestimmte negative Entwicklungen an einer Stelle irgendwo anders wiederum Positives nach sich ziehen. Wenn die Leute ihr Autos länger fahren, werden weniger Fahrzeuge pro Jahr neu gekauft. Das trifft die Autoindustrie. Andererseits profitieren die Hersteller von Ersatzteilen und die Werkstätten. Die haben mehr Zulauf, weil ältere Wagen auch mehr Reperaturaufwand bedeuten. Alles hat eben seine Vor- und Nachteile.

Announcement postWhy I staked my 200 PWRIf you own a few PWR Token like me there‘s an interesting new option starting now: Staking. I saw the post by @empoderat this morning, offering a quite high APR of 80% currently, paid out in PWR token on an hourly base! (see comment below) Of course this APR will go down as more people begin staking their token too but even a tenth of that would be a nice reward.

Microstrategy businessI guess all of you know THE Bitcoin Company, Microstrategy and its famous chairman Michael Saylor. This guy is issuing debt and buying the orange coin since about four years now and $MSTR is sitting on a stack of ~450k BTC at the moment which is more than 2% of the whole supply ever.

Es ist mir erst gar nicht aufgefallen, aber mittlerweile bin ich bei einer Hive Reputation von angelangt! Total unglaublich, wenn man bedenkt welche Hive Legenden in den 70ern angesiedelt sind. Ich freue mich jedenfalls sehr, ist es doch Ausdruck meiner jahrelangen kontinuierlichen Arbeit und Aktivität hier auf unserer Blockchain. Hive on!

Dividend Growth with SnacksIf you like chocolate and dividends you most certainly know Mondelez. The US company is big with their Milka and Cadbury brand but also produces snacks like Oreo or the famous Philadelphia cream cheese. They are also known for the growing dividends they are paying out once per quarter and raise every year. The dividend yield is currently 3% with a healthy payout ratio of 50% (dividend vs EPS).