Leased some steem power from Dlease.io to indulge more with manual curation!

Steem power determines one's influence on steem blockchain. The more one has, the higher is his/her ability to determine how the reward pool should be distributed. Although the current cheap value of steem gives room for buying own steems and powering up, there are many like myself who can't afford to buy them beyond a specific limit. However, my faith on steem is so much that the only financial investment now I have is steem in the form of steem power. In my country, India, speculation among public is very high about cryptos getting banned in the near future. Our government clearly isn't in favor of allowing this ground breaking technololy to stay in its soil, atleast in its current form.

Though this is the case in my country, I'm pretty sure that no government can completely eradicate the proliferation of cryptocurrencies from its soil as this technology bound by no laws and it is fully decentralized. I have a tremendous faith on steem and have been buying them to consistently powering up to make me a self made dolphin. Over the past 1.5 years, the time period I have been active on steem, the total payout I got in the form of author rewards is just over 600 steems which in the case of many others who are as old in this platform, is triple or quadruple that amount or even more. The thing is that I was largely hesitant to use bidbots and seldom used them to boost my posts. So in a society where one could earn well only if he could abused the resources, I stayed odd with many such others. I hardly got noticed by whales and the organic upvotes I used to receive were quite small.

But I had and have hopes..!

Unlike many others who left the platform when they saw a drop in price I chose to continue to give it many tries. I consistently powered up to benefit the maximum from the ongoing bear market.. I have invested the maximum possible fiat I could to empower my blog. Yet, my 100% vote worth few cents, though. But that wouldn't stop someone like me who has been fortunate enough to completely understand the modus operandi of this platform and community.

As an aftereffect of HF21 and its overhauled EPI, spammers have been trampled down and if I'm right, they are left with no option other than to leave the platform. Though it appears to be monotonous, that's how a community of people from different walks of life must work. The downvote pool has been inroduced at free of cost which puts abusers in further dilemma. Altogether, the culture is changing for the good and the community has started to function in a way which it was originally supposed to function.

I see little to no negativity haunting the platform now. Good content creators are being highly rewarded, stake holders aren't put behind as they get nice returns for the efforts they put in pm curation. Everything is fine tuned and the community is expecting a surge in the price of steem at any moment from now. I'm fully optimistic about witnessing that event as I'm firm at my belief that steem is still an undervalued currrency. There isn't many coins having the uses cases the steem comes up with!

So what I'm gonna do...?

Just like any other investor thinks, I too want to get good returns for my investment while making sure that I'm in no way an onus to the smooth progression of the community. I'm gonna set out to find some good authors to make them believe that they are not left behind, by curating their content fully knowing my limits. I wouldn't have believed and invested on steem had it not for few steemians who used to encourage me time to time.

Today I converted some of my neoxag tokens on steem engine to steem tokens and instead of directly powering them up I leased some steem power delegation from dlease.io. Last time when I bought it from blocktrades it appeared costly as I recieved just above 300SPs for over 25 steems. Today I found out the best way to get delegation in a more lucrative way. @dlease and @minnowbooster are running such a delegation market where one can expect to lease a good amount of steem power delegation with less price. And the best part is that the request is processed within a short time. While filling up the details one gets to know the chances of getting it done in percentage which will make you adjust the values.

Today my request was processed within a few minutes and I was surprised to see the person that delegated me this SPs. It is @exyle who delegated this steem power to me. I wasn't expecting him to sell his steem power to any as he has been consistently trying to increase his SPs as per his recent vlogs. Anyway, it is great to get my purchase done through one of the well known individuals of our platform!

With this added power I'm going to reduce the wieght of autovotes I have set on steemauto and will be focusing more on turning manual. I'm really enjoying having a high voting value coming from my account, Something I couldn't even think about an year back!

So what are you waitig for? Go and curate:)