Pausing my SteemVoter for a few days to recover; then, will request another round of voting!

A few months ago, I asked my followers to vote for their top three minnows, and the 20 highest-voted I added to my SteemVoter rules, at 100% vote (which then was around $4; now, it's almost $12). However, from that experience I learned that was way too high, and over time reduced and reduced again, until it landed at 10% which allowed my voting power to recover (as long as I wasn't making lots of manual votes).

So, I'm planning to run a similar-but-different campaign, once my voting power reaches 100% again, which should be a few days.

(Marmalade, I like marmalade.)

Had the second temporary filling for a root canal put in today. I recommend brushing...1/2 :) And even more so -- oil pulling!

Anyway, also separately, I have managed to turn ~1.2 BTC into ~3 BTC during this downturn. Not using margin, although I did recently come across NordFX which advertises 1000x margin. I think that's a little too risky! I might start margin trading, so I can "increase while it's going down" rather than just when it's going up. If that makes sense; I feel I should explain more -- I'm holding CTR from around 24,500 Satoshis, and today saw it impulse up; in about an hour it went from ~9,500 Sat to over 15,000 Sat!

Unfortunately it was after I got back from the dentist that I noticed this, and it had dropped to around 12,500 Sat. I started selling there, and it moved up some so got out between 12.5k and 12.8k.

I did this not because I wanted to "set in stone" a losing trade (which I did, and need to record...) -- but, because I though that it would move further down after this rapid move up, so I'd be able to buy more back at a lower price, and then have that move up and, combined, both trades would be positive -- and could be, even if it never made it back to the starting point.

Were I using a margin account, I could have not only sold, but also taken a short position in it, so that IF it drops as I expect it to based on the chart, then I'd be gaining coins rather than just "not losing as it moves down." I've been watching videos by @philakonecrypto recently which inspired me to start trading the BTC/USD pair.

Back to the voting: this time, I intend to add 50 accounts to my SteemVoter, so I'll probably set each at a 5% vote.

Previous winners are listed in the previous tabulation blog post. Feel free to vote for them, there are no restrictions based on prior selection. However, I will ensure that the accounts I upvote are minnows, so if my assistance helped push them past that threshold, they're no longer eligible -- and, congratulations! :)

What defines a minnow? For the purposes of this contest, it's simple: the account must have under 5000 SP, and under 500 followers (from here).

Enjoy!

Oh, I was going to say "where'd the marmalade come from, for an SBD!" -- but then I selected it and searched, and Atom Heart Mother came up. So, enjoy this old Pink Floyd album I was listening to when I wrote that! :) (Now listening to Meddle, their next chronologically.) Also note that the cow's side in the image contains an Azimuthal Equidistant world map, or more colloquially, a "flat Earth map"! It's also on the face of one of the clocks in Doc's kitchen, at the beginning of Back to the Future. Not to be too disturbing in this post -- one's introduction to the true shape of things must be done carefully, as many people are in the category described by that old war movie, which had the quote "You can't handle the truth!" My guess? You can. Just beware of the symptoms of cognitive dissonance.

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