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End of season and preparing for new rules in Splinterlands

Hive is finally getting the upward swing on the coattails of Bitcoin. coingecko image As of today, it's up 27% for the month. 5% growth in the last 7 days!

So my last post was prior to Splinterlands shifting from collection power as determining rank to requiring the staking of SPS. Here's that article: As usual, my luck was not great. I sold SPS at it's lowest

A month ago, I debated if it was time to pull the plug on my SPS stake and move it to HBD, since the APR on SPS has dropped lower than the APR on SPS. Here's a link to that article. I think it was a pretty

Today, SPS that's SplinterlandsShards are returning APR of 19% when staked. image courtesy of Splinterlands.com That's a big decline in APR from a year ago. And it's reflective of a much bigger decline

Hello dear hive friends,👭 Good evening my dear hive friends. how are you I hope you all are happy. I think this must be a busy week for you. I don't think it's easy for us to make this kind of food with

Bittrex is closing its US Exchange at the end of April, 2023. This is after 9 years of operations and due to the heavy hand of US regulators. Here's a link to a recent news article So what's a good exchange

I noticed on @peakmonsters that there is a column called production points. What are production points? What determines the production point value? How is the information useful to cardholders? Can you

I notice that when I combine cards on @peakmonsters that there is a Gold outline around one of the levels. The gold square is not related to the highest level that I can combine cards. And it is on different

Powell talks today. Will a hawk ground crypto? FED announces rate today at0.25%. Stocks/crypto been on 45-day bull with expectation rate hikes stop by late summer. If Powell indicates otherwise today,

US Justice Dept disrupts Hive? What? Oh, Not Us. I don't usually buzz a news article but I thought this was interesting. It's not our Hive, but it was a startling headline. Those crooks need to rebrand

Setting the vampire bats on fire this week and two extra burns from new participants! Burn it down!

Week 28 of the 52 Week Pack challenge I open a pack a week of Splinterlands Chaos Legion. The return on this pack was a shabby $0.81. The cumulative cost at this point is $63, while the return is now at

Methodofmad burns Gold Cards each Friday in Splinterlands. Join the party and help us burn cards!

Oops! A few days late this week, but some really good burns!

The last two months have been rough on my pack openings. But not this week! Thanks to Grandmaster Rathe Image from www.peakmonsters.com In fact, there's lots of good things happening this week. I know

Positives this week. Hive is up, Chaos packs are up (slightly) GLX is holding steady.

Here them roar! I burn Lions today. And 5 bonus burns.

Splinterlands has a Winterfest promotion for the next six days. If you buy a pack, you are guaranteed a common promo card. There's a 2% chance of a gold foil and if you buy 50 packs, then there's a guarantee

The pack openings started strong with good return, but now we are in the doldrums.