**Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!**

As regular visitors to my blog already know, Sundays are usually reserved for golden hour posts here on my profile but the weather has been so bad lately and I have no fresh pictures to share with you so instead, I decided to write something about curation on Hive today. 

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Originally, I started out as a content creator here. But that was some 3.5 years ago and coming up with a new, decent post every single day has been increasingly difficult so after some time, also as my Hive Power was growing, I found myself being interested in the curation role more and more. 

Currently, I can see two main reasons why I have been trying to further step up my curation game and why you might want to do that too.

First, the recent increase in the price of Hive has caused (as usually) a significant increase in the overall activity on the chain and the competition in the author section is now much bigger than it was during the low times when Hive was crouching down in the $0.10 - $0.15 price range, which means there are now many more hands trying to grab something from the reward pool. 

The second reason why you might want to pay more attention to curation now is the upcoming hardfork that will bring some pretty big changes to curation. From what I have read so far, it seems like there will be 3 curation windows (0 - 24 hours, 24 - 72 hours, 72 - 168 hours) with the most profitable window to curate being the first one where the rewards will be linear, which means those voting in the first 24 hours will be rewarded proportionally, just based on the amount of their HP. When voting in the remaining two windows, the curation rewards will be even smaller. In other words, there will be no way to achieve curation efficiency greater than 100% anymore. So, after the new system is implemented, even if you are one of the very first voters on a great post that later get massive votes from big accounts and curation groups, you get no extra reward for that, only the proportional reward based on your HP, just like anyone else who vote on the post in the first 24 hours. For more info about the changes, feel free to check out for example [this post](https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@tarazkp/curation-now-and-to-come) by @tarazkp who explained a lot of these things there.

From what I have heard, the hardfork will probably take place in a couple of weeks from now so we only have that much time left for getting some 100%+ efficiency curation rewards for finding and curating the uncovered gems that will be then curated by some big curation groups. 

I have been paying a lot of attention to curation lately here on Hive so let me now show you some of my current stats to maybe motivate you to step up your curation game too. At almost 40k (organically gained) Hive Power, some 170 authors on my autovoting list, a lot of daily manual curation (with no curation trails), my current stats look like this:
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More than 600 upvotes given out to more than 220 different accounts in the past 7 days. All time curation rewards more than 7,000 HP. Last 30 days almost 450 HP. Last 7 days more than 120 HP.

![jedna.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmV9wWZn692uNPeuZWQhRhXk8wjPrp5yJnb6HeghuQ324a/jedna.png)


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Got over 20 HP per day twice in the past 7 days. 


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Current curation APR 16.3%


![tri.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmeFAweTdtkzVS5jib4uSsbQMsosNqWvjzfp6CPy4ik5eu/tri.png)


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This much curation comes with some very exhausted voting power but that´s ok, just too much good stuff to curate :)


![ctyri.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmXdmTMT8EYMpVSGswa6yHSeteAGSLuoJjxxA75kavb3im/ctyri.png)



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So that´s it about curation from me for now. I hope you found this post useful and maybe even motivating. The point was to show you that curating can be as important and profitable as posting if you pay some attention and time to it.

Thank you for checking it out. Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone and have a great start to the new week tomorrow.  

All screenshots featured in this post were taken from my profiles at HiveTasks and HiveStats.

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