Posts from @finpulse

Wild pass buying to start gameplay

finpulse — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:05:03 GMT

Hello Splinterlands and Hive Fam!

I hope life is treating you well wherever you are in the world, and that you're having a great weekend.

My Splinterlands Game account is FinPulse9.

The season is ongoing, and as I'm drafting this blog, it is going to end in 6 days. However, I have been trying my best to play as many battles as I can, and as a result, I am playing in the Diamond League. My performance was not great in the last season, and there is a reason behind that: I was not able to start at the beginning because I had a different strategy.

The strategy I had last season was that I wanted to renew the cards at a time when I don't need to renew for another season. That only happens when the season is less than halfway, if I'm correct. At that time, the window for renewal goes to 22 or 23 days, which means that whoever does the card renewal gets the window for the current season as well as the next season.

Before the last season, it went well, but it looks like in the last season it was not good because I was not able to unlock the higher league. I can understand this because I started the game when half of the season was already gone. Within the limited time, my rewards were also not good since I was not able to unlock the highest league possible based on my card collection and the level of card I used to play.

But it's fine, and in the current season, I am trying to give my best shot. I am in the Diamond League, but I'm trying to make it even higher and will see if I can make it to Diamond One League within this season, because that is what I'm eyeing. I hope that will happen if things go well.

Generally, I try to follow a different strategy in some seasons, and sometimes I also stick to that because I think it's a game where having a different strategy after a certain period of time helps. That's why I try that way.

You know what? It's a game, so no matter what I plan, it doesn't mean it is going to happen the same. Anyway, I am trying to unlock the highest league in the current season. I hope this will happen. Like I already said, it is completely dependent upon how things perform in the season for me, since I will be competing with many other players as well.

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Recovery Account & proper backup of Keys

thekittygirl — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:47:36 GMT

I hope everyone will read this, as even people who have been on Hive for a long time don't always understand the ramifications of what they're doing. Every account on Hive has a "Recovery Account" trustee that can help us recover our accounts should they become compromised. That trustee is initially the account which created our account, but the trustee can be changed any time.

★ It is important to note that our Recovery Account trustee has no special access over our account. That trustee cannot see our Keys or perform any actions on our behalf. The trustee is only able to login to their own account and broadcast a payload of code to the blockchain that will return control of a compromised account to the rightful owner; that's all they can do.

Many people don't seem to understand this, and one of their first actions on the blockchain is to change their Recovery Account so they can feel sovereign / self-sufficient without relying on the assigned trustee to assist them. But, let's look at a few circumstances where this can be problematic.

• John Doe registers the account @johndoe with Hive. He immediately sets his own account as his Recovery Account trustee. Then, when his account becomes compromised, he is unable to recover his own account because he cannot login to broadcast the payload! And yes, some people have done this and lost everything.

• John Doe registers the account @johndoe with Hive. Then he registers another account, @johndoe-2 and sets that as the Recovery Account trustee for his first account. That is fine, if he never loses the Keys to the second account ~or~ if both accounts are not compromised at the same time. It happened recently where this scenario failed, as the user lost the Keys to the trustee account, then their original account was compromised. Fortunately, they finally found the Keys to the second account, but it took some work to locate them.

• John Doe registers the account @johndoe with Hive. Then he sets his friend Mary Jane (@maryjane) as his trustee. Then Mary Jane becomes ill and is in the hospital and can't login to help John when his account becomes compromised. Or worse, she dies, and then there is no trustee to help John when he loses his account. There have also been cases where John's account and Mary's account were both compromised at the same time, and both of them lost everything.

So, what to do...?

There are many large projects on Hive which contain a team of people working together, and many of them create accounts for new users. Some of those projects include @ecency, @appreciator, @ocd, @threespeak, @actifit, and many others. Those project accounts automatically become Recovery Account trustees for the accounts they create. My advice is to leave them in that position unless you have a valid reason for not trusting them any more (the founder of the project has disappeared, the project seems to be going 'rogue' in some way, etc.). If your account becomes compromised and one person on the Ecency team is unavailable to assist in recovering an account when the need arises, someone else on the team is probably available to do it. So, that gives more flexibility to the situation than having a single person as the only one who can help.

Anyone's Recovery Account trustee can be seen in one of our "block explorers" for Hive. The following is an alphabetical list of the ones I know about (please tell me in the comments if I have missed one!):

~ **Block Explorers for the Hive Blockchain** ~
	URL	courtesy of
AusbitBlocks	https://hive.ausbit.dev	@ausbitbank
HiveBlockExplorer	https://www.hiveblockexplorer.com	@penguinpablo
HiveHub.dev	https://hivehub.dev	@peakd team
HiveScan.info	https://hivescan.info	@hdev team
Openhive	https://explore.openhive.network	@gtg (Gandalf)

In those block explorers, two fields are important when an account becomes compromised:

• last_owner_update shows the timestamp of when the Owner Key was last changed. The format is: YYYY-MM-DD T HH:MM:SS, so "2021-08-09T05:24:21" means August 9th of 2021 at a Time of 5 hours 24 minutes 21 seconds after midnight UTC. If you did not make the change to the Keys at the time shown, then someone else has control of your account.

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Jio IPO closing tomorrow

finpulse — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:08:24 GMT

Hello Hive Fam

Good day to you all, and I hope you're having a good time wherever you are.

I have not invested in an IPO for the last few months because I was not coming across any good project. But now there is one IPO which is open for subscription, and it is from one of the biggest telecom companies in India. The name is Jio, and Jio is the top company in India in terms of its number of subscribers. The company has got over 50% market share, and this market share is more than 50%. In the remaining 50%, there are three other companies having the share, whereas the government company is also there, having very little market share.

This IPO was awaited for a long time, and finally it is here. I'll be applying for it tomorrow because tomorrow is also the last day for subscription. I can see that this is oversubscribed by 13x, which I think is good. By the time it ends, I am hoping that this rate of subscription will grow because maybe there are many people who are still waiting and they want to apply on the last day. The process is very easy and can be done through the application from many brokerage companies who are providing this stock trading.

I have not been lucky enough this year to get any allotment in the IPO, but still, I will try. I hope that if I get the opportunity to get the allotment of the IPO, it is going to be a profitable deal (because I'm expecting some profitable listing of the stock in the market). However, it is the market, and things can go the other way round also. But if I talk about the overall company's growth and its plan for the next few years, it looks promising.

The company is also working on some projects which are future-oriented. For example, they are focusing on 6G and planning to launch it in a year or two. Satellite internet is another big product they are going to launch in 2027, hopefully.

Let's hope I get the allocation of this IPO. This is going to happen within 3 days after the subscription window closes. Let's see how it goes and whether I am lucky enough to get some profit here, but I'll be trying it for sure. thank you.

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Happy Dussehra (Vijayadashmi)

finpulse — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:45:06 GMT

Hello Hive Fam

Good day to you all, and I hope you're having a good time wherever you are.

Today it is the Dussehra festival. On this auspicious occasion, I wish everyone a very happy Dussehra and Vijay Dashmi!

This festival is well celebrated in India, and it is celebrated on the 10th, which is known as Dashmi after Navratri. This is because Navratri is a festival that runs for 9 days, and once that is over, on the 10th day of Navratri, by the way, this festival is celebrated.

Deshera is a festival like winning over evil, and across the country, in many places, Ramardhan happens, which symbolizes that no matter what happens, at the end, only truth will win. I think this is the kind of learning that we all also should follow in life because sometimes in our life, things can be really tough and challenging, but at the end, only truth wins. We should not be worried about it and try to face those situations as much as we can based on our capacities.

It is a public holiday, so I'm not working today. In the second half of the day, I'll be going out with family to have some food outside and also might visit a fair because there are many celebrations happening around. We'll be visiting one where kids will get some fun time and they will enjoy the celebration. That's the plan I have for today on the celebration of the Shara festival. Festivals are more like a kind of event that people celebrate together, and children get the opportunity to enjoy some fun activities and some amazing food. That's what these festivals are all about, but even families are getting the time to connect with their near and dear ones. I hope everybody is celebrating the festival wherever they are in the country, and they are having a good time with their family, friends, and near-and-dear ones. Thank you!

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Wild pass buying to start gameplay

finpulse — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:13:03 GMT

Hello Splinterlands and Hive Fam!

I hope life is treating you well wherever you are in the world, and that you're having a great weekend.

My Splinterlands Game account is FinPulse9.

Sometimes things just don't get through, and I am saying this because I already had the cards available in the game account. Technically, there was no need for me to renew the rented cards. Still, I could not buy the Wild Pass because I had a busy schedule over the weekend.

Today, when it is Sunday and the weekend is about to end, I have finally managed to buy the Wild Pass, which will help me enable the battles for my account. This is not a big activity, I would say, because it hardly takes a few minutes to get it done. Still, I was not able to do it. That is how, sometimes, even after trying a lot, things just do not work the way we like!

Anyway, I have now made the purchase for the wild pass, and I paid for it through the DEC token, which I prefer all the time. I had to buy it from the market, so I purchased it from the market and sent it back to my game account. After that, I was able to buy this.

In the window, you can see that I have selected the EC token as the "Pay with" option, and the current season will be ending in 13 days and 2 hours from now. I think still I'll have the 13 days' time to play in the current season, which I think is a good amount. Even though it is late, I'm still happy that Idon't need to spend any time on the card renewal, so I can play the current season nicely without going through the renewal process.

The last season was not great in terms of rewards, probably because I have not played the season for half of it and I started playing late. We'll see how I want to go ahead in the next season, but for now, whatever it is, I'm happy with it. The only thing I can expect to do is try to do better things in the next season, and that's my thought for now.

However, every season things can be different, and I really don't know. Surely, in the next season, I will be trying a slightly different strategy. Maybe I won't renew the renter in the middle of the season. Rather, I'll prefer to do it at the beginning so that I get more time. Since there are 2 weeks between those stages, I'll see how I want to do that, and we'll decide that later.

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Applied for new credit card- SBI Cashback Card

finpulse — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:51:36 GMT

Hello Hive Fam

Good day to you all, and I hope you're having a good time wherever you are.

A credit card is very good to have, and I have been using a credit card for a long time. It is because it is convenient, and I need not carry cash when I am buying things in the market. It is also convenient when I buy things online because I don't need to spend money from my bank account. I use the credit card, so in return, I get either points or cash back, whereas the payback amount remains the same since I always make the payment before the due date. It's a beneficial deal for me, which helps me save some money.

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I have multiple credit cards from different banks. Out of them, the Amazon Pay credit card is one of the good cards because it offers great cashback on Amazon. If I need to buy things from another website, then it does not offer anything, which is really good, and that stays at 1%. I think it's not good. There is another card which I got to know about that offers 5% cashback on all online purchases on all e-commerce platforms.

This credit card is from SBI, and the card name is SBI Cashback Card. I have applied for this because, apart from Amazon, I use other e-commerce websites also for purchases, and that is where this card will help me to get some cashback. This is not a free-for-life credit card, so there is some fee, which is like 999 + GST. But the Amazon Pay credit card is free for life, so there is no annual or renewal fee applicable on the card.

I generally prefer the cards which are free for life, but I see that SBI does not offer a free-for-life credit card. I thought, let's try this one, and maybe I'll be getting better value as a return after paying this joining fee. I want to experience this, and that's why I'm ready to pay these joining charges to the credit card company. I hope my experience goes well!

Currently, my application is submitted and approved, but the card has not been issued. I think it should be done in the next few days, and I will be getting the physical copy of the card. A good CIBIL score is required to get the application approved, and my CIBIL score is very good, so approval is not a problem for me. I knew it would be done, but now I'm waiting for the card, which I think should be delivered in a week's time. I will see how my experience is with this new card, so I'm kind of excited to see how much cash back I will be able to earn with this card!

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Season End Reward Claim

finpulse — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:24:57 GMT

Hello Splinterlands and Hive Fam!

I hope life is treating you well wherever you are in the world, and that you're having a great weekend.

My Splinterlands Game account is FinPulse9.

The season is over, and it is time to claim the season reward. I have done it. Although I started the season playing very late and it was more than halfway through, I still did pretty well on the battleground. Currently, I am in the Diamond 2 league. You can also say that I ended the season in the Diamond 2 league, and my rating was more than 3,000.

It is also because I was able to maintain a win rate of more than 50%. From this, I got the reward of 55,000 Glint tokens, which is really low. Maybe because I started playing late, my reward was reduced, but it's fine because at least I was able to manage the Diamond League. Next season, I will try to play it even better!

I have claimed my reward for the season, and now I need to buy the Wild Pass. Only then can I start the gameplay for the next season. As you can see, the next season is going to end in exactly 15 days.

Since my renewal was already done for this season, there is no need for me to do it again, which will help me save time. This is why I will be able to buy the Wildcard today only, so that at least I will be able to enjoy the season for the next 2 weeks without any problem.

That is the advantage of this strategy, which I followed this season by doing renewals in the middle of the season, so that I can get the time to utilise those cards in the next season as well.

I wanted to buy the Wild Pass right away, but I could not because I do not have any DEC tokens, and for this purchase, I require 2,000 DEC tokens. The first thing I need to do is buy the tokens from the market and then send them to the game account. Only then will I be able to pay for the Wild Pass.

Since I play in the wild format of the game, it is mandatory to have the Wild Pass. Only then will the gameplay option be enabled for players. This is a mandatory requirement, and I will try to do it as soon as possible. I think it will take some time for me, probably 2 hours or maybe half a day. In any case, I'll be able to utilise the 14 days of time in the season since I don't need to go through the renewal cards process again.

That is all for the day now, and I have no different strategy in the current season for now, but maybe I will do it if it is needed. For now, I will try to go with the flow and just continue to play the battle as much as I can. While I am going to start my gameplay shortly, I will also see if I can increase my energy count further by adding more, or if I need to buy from the market.

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Time to stop or continue to play?

finpulse — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:34:48 GMT

Hello Splinterlands and Hive Fam!

I hope life is treating you well wherever you are in the world, and that you're having a great weekend.

My Splinterlands Game account is FinPulse9.

Today, I played a lot of battles, but I still couldn't win many. It is obvious because now we are at the end of the season, so everybody is trying their best to achieve the highest possible league. That's the reason why there is more competition when the season is approaching the end! As you can see in the snapshot below, the season will be ending in roughly 1 day, and my rating is 2,960, which puts me in the Diamond 3 league. I am slightly more than halfway in terms of rating if I think about entering the next league.

I know that in one day, it can be a big challenge for me because it is not really easy to accumulate so much rating in such a short amount of time and move forward. That is why I'm less hopeful about expecting myself to enter the Diamond 2 league, or maybe I'm kind of scared that I might be dropped if I play more battles down to the lower league. Again, I really don't know what is going to happen, but this time I don't want to stop the game now. However, I'm still giving it a thought: whether I should stop playing now, or I should continue to play the battles till the time the season ends, which is just a couple of hours away.

It's kind of a thought for me whether I should consider stopping the gameplay for the rest of the day of the season (which is obviously 1 day), or whether I should continue playing. For now, I have decided that I will continue to play for slightly more than half a day, and I'll see how I perform. If it all goes well, then I will probably be moving ahead in the league. Again, since it's a game, maybe playing more battles can also give me some diamonds in the form of a lower rating, or maybe going backwards to the lower league. Anything can happen!

Other than this, obviously I am excited for the end-of-season reward, like many other players in the game. No matter what league I end up in this season, which can be Diamond or Gold, I'm not really that concerned about that because, in any case, I am going to get some good reward.

Generally, when I end the season in the lower league, my reward is better because probably my SPS folding is at a stronger point. Let's see how it goes and which league I can end the season in. I really have no idea.

As a player, I will continue to play whatever is possible for me, and I'll see when I need to stop. When I stop, I get more energy. The reason I have done the later levels in the current season is that it will give me the bandwidth to play more battles just after the season starts. It is another strategy that will help me to kick up my battle in the next season.

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Its Sale time but I am not shopping

finpulse — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:52:36 GMT

Hello, Hive Fam!

I hope life is treating you well wherever you are in the world.

Everyone likes sale time because this is the time when one can buy things at a highly discounted price. In India, online platforms are offering heavy discounts these days as part of their annual sale. During the Diwali festival, these online marketplaces announce a sale for various items. These platforms are Amazon and Flipkart, which are running a sale for now, and it will continue to run until the Diwali festival.

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Like many other people, I also like sale time because this is the kind of opportunity when I can buy things at a highly discounted price. I wanted to buy my phone this time. However, during the 15th August sale, I also got a decent deal, so I purchased my phone at that time. I see that the prices are even lower in this sale, but it's fine because there is a difference of just ₹4,000 to ₹5,000. I'm fine with that because I got the device almost 2 months back!

Now, because the phone is already purchased, I'm not planning to buy anything else. That is the reason I'm not doing any shopping online in this festival sale run by online shopping websites. While I am not shopping, most of my friends and colleagues are doing a lot of shopping. They keep on sharing it while having discussions with them, which I think is good because probably people have been waiting for a long time to buy that stuff. Now that the sale is here, it makes sense for them not to miss this opportunity and get the most out of it!

Every year, I do buy something, but I think this is the first time I'm not buying anything from both marketplaces during their annual and festival sale time. Obviously, I am buying small things which are necessities, and these are part of grocery shopping, but not something big like any electronic gadget or any expensive item during the sale time from these Amazon and Flipkart websites. I feel like I am getting 100% off on the deal because, technically, I'm not spending any money on the shopping. It is a good time for me also, and I am enjoying it even when I'm not shopping!

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Moving ahead in the Diamond League

finpulse — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:56:21 GMT

Hello Splinterlands and Hive Fam!

I hope life is treating you well wherever you are in the world, and that you're having a great weekend.

My Splinterlands Game account is FinPulse9.
Currently, I am playing in the Diamond League, and this is going well for now. When I talked about the current season in my last blog, my winning ratio was 48%, and now it has increased to more than 51%. That is good because at this level, even 1% matters. Trust me, it's not easy to increase this number even by 1%, so if it goes up, surely it shows that something is going well in the season.

Especially when the season is approaching the end, the amount of competition goes up, and everybody tries their best to move ahead in the lead so that they can be entitled to a better reward.

Everybody is interested in getting a higher reward every season, so do I, because I'm also a player. I always try my best shot in the game so that I can get a better reward every day and also by the end of the season.

Now, because I started the current season playing late and it's been just 3 days for me, I'm still in the Diamond League. I believe it is a good achievement, and I'm happy with this progress. Because the season is going to end in the next 3 days, I will be trying my level best to move ahead and enter Diamond 2 at least after that. I will also try to see if I can enter Diamond 1, but I know that Diamond 1 can be challenging, so I'm happy to close the season in Diamond 2 also. For now, that is the strategy I have, but let's see how exactly things turn out for me!

The game is good from a competitive point of view because I know that there have been multiple battles where I lost in a row. This is probably because I did not select the right cards for the battle, or maybe the opponent player is stronger than me. There could be any one reason, but it's fine because, in every battle, I just can't expect to win. It's a game, and nobody can continuously win. That's how the game thing works in the real world!

Because the current season is about to end soon, I will try my "all the ways possible" strategy to see how I can increase and how I can move further in the league. If I end up the season in a higher league, then it will give me a better reward. A better reward means I'll be getting more Glint tokens, which everybody is trying to have in the season. That's how things are for me in the current season, and I will continue to share my season journey. Thank you!

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