Each an every one of us that participate or interact with the HIVE Blockchain are actually helping to build it and maintain it, just as bees do everyday in the real World. The bees must do this everyday until the hive or colony ceases to exist, and so too, we must continually help to maintain the HIVE BLOCKCHAIN through our participation which can be anything from running witnesses nodes, coding, creating Dapps, upvoting, staking (Powering Up), blogging etc etc. This blockchain lesson of Community was most prominently displayed with the recent steem/HIVE Blockchain Hard-Fork demonstrating that the technology is nothing without a community that believes in it and more importantly uses it.

Carrying over from the old blockchain, especially since Splinterlands is HIVE friendly and I am still playing, I am picking up with my series HOOKED ON SPLINTERLANDS, where I post tips, tricks, and other things I learn as I attempt to make CHAMPIONS' LEAGUE. I have been playing for about half a year, and have had many battles and made several purchases. I have also learned many different strategies while losing in battle, while also trying to consistently complete the Daily Quest in order to claim those prizes.

SPLINTERLANDS gives each player a "Daily Quest" to complete in order to collect some in game bonuses which can be anywhere from Player Cards to Dark Energy Crystals (DEC) to potions and/or orbs. Since I have not been playing that long, I only marginally noticed when the prizes recently changed for the Daily Quests going from only Player Cards to now including other prizes from within the game, which I actually like. The main reason I like this change is that the prizes can occasionally include a nice chunk of DEC, which you can then use as you buy things that you prefer as opposed to being given random Playing Cards that might not be all that beneficial to your game.

Remember that the higher you climb into the Splinterland Leagues, the greater the daily rewards are as well. Lately it seems as though players have gotten better, making it harder to rank higher when battling. I have nonetheless been persistent on claiming those Daily Quest prizes, and my last claim was amazing. To my astonishment, I actually gained two Gold Foil cards after my last Daily Quest, and just can't wait to complete my next DQ, especially with less than five days to go before the Splinterlands' Season ends. I am hoping to make Diamond League Level II in order to gain as many prizes as possible.

Battle Anyone?

+++ @streetstyle