Let me tell you a secret about HP...

thanks for sharing this, im really exited about this ecosystem

The more HP one holds the more rewards they distribute to others and also earn for themselves (curation rewards).

Indeed. I get 100 HP daily, just by curating.

Am I still eligible for PAL or did I miss that? I am staking HUSTLERM and getting COM, what else should I stake? What are the best tokens to stake right now? Thanks for your time.

Great post, really convincing me to put more time and effort into HODLing HP and LP

I have a small account, but I remember those airdrops very well like Pal and Leo and also Byteball.

I have friends who regretted why they did not have a small take in their accounts.

It is really hard to explain to a noob all these benefits, like airdrops. I did receive the Safepal airdrop a few days ago and it is now worth $200.

Let us wait for the next airdrops even though I have a small account, I will indeed refer naysayers to this post hehe

and that's why i try to build up my stake and i will only cash out if the price reach 10$ at least

The benefits are rolling out each passing day. HP has become the new passport to More crypto airdrops.

My main focus when I try to increase my HP is to upvote others and give them a reward. My upvote now is like 0.015$, but I hope some day I could give an upvote of at least 0.5$ when Hive reaches 5$.

Excellent concept of the true value of HP, I liked it very much.

The whole Hive ecosystem is really undervalued compared to traditional social media. Going to keep my Hive unless the price shoots up to those $6 levels again.

That's nice to learn some history of the chain at the same time.
3Speak/Leo will be my first airdrops here, very excited about it.
I might stake some more Hive following the steps of a famous whale ;)

For sure! Lots of people hate on hive for this and that lame reason but they are still here. It will be comical when resource credits are much more valuable and they can’t even comment with 100 hive power because you need more than that to do a lot of talking.

Let’s see where things go with the increase in prices amidst the bull run here. I’ve accumulated what I feel is a pretty good stake, watching it grow has been wonderful!

HP is one of the most important keys for success here.

Great post! Thank you

I'm very new to Hive so I didn't know some of the things you shared. I'll continue staking!

Another thing that it's a bit unrelated to the post, but not completely is this: I joined Steem around 2018 but I went completely inactive right after joining and only got back recently, after the whole Justin Sun takeover thing.... One thing I don't understand is why did some people stay there?!?

Aaanway, I'm not sure if that's something we talk about here and sorry to hijack your post if it's not hehe

All the examples you've cited are well received. HP is life on this space because here everything around here is a game of influence. Cheers!

More airdrops please

Excellent article Hive account@mindtrap
You really explained well all the benefits of always doing Power Up to increase Hive Power.
I really believe in Hive and have never done a power down.
The best thing about Hive is that the moment you have even one HP you become part of Hive and not just a user.
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Good point / Wise words

In all honesty, I would be even happier if we had a flat curation curve, like we have here on Leo, so I would be even more motivated to vote outside of Leofinance.

Also, it's tough to see that even 10k+ HP hardly makes a dent these days. Will be nice to see this change when the price of Hive keeps going up.

See you around :>)

I've often thought about how crazy it is how much money people in crypto can make just from forks and airdrops. If you try to explain that to a non-crypto person they look at you like you have two heads, but for us it's kind of just normal now. Oh sure I got $2,000 from the UNI airdrop, or from the HIVE fork, or whatever. I still sometimes find tokens I didn't even know how I got that are now worth some real money and I go sell them for a token I actually want and know what it is lol.

I don't know of anything else in life that's like that, where you keep getting money sort of at random every so often, and it's really just nuts if you step back and think about it.

Also don't forget the LEO airdrops that are coming up soon!

One important fact that you might have forgotten is that your actual HP is an amount of vests that are constant as long as they are powered up. Vests remain the same as when they have been powered up, but their value increases over time. For example 10000 HP today, will be worth 10001 HP tomorrow. Your vests for tax purposes remain constant and you don't have a profit if you don't power down. There are a lot of different more!

Initially being a Hive hodler makes you a "stakeholder" which make you personalize and work for the project voluntarily.

Hive has always been full of gifts to the community members. Now fingers crossed for 3speak and ProjectBlank. We are gradually creating a whole community and I believe, hodlers are so lucky 😌

Men! I was just thinking about this recently. Some people (not me because I was powering down) doubled their portfolio size in the last 12 months because they had steem stake. One of my greatest regrets.

Great to be debt free! It happened to me several times, now I'm waiting for one more time. I'm glad we have HP and that those who know what to do with it... keep it and multiply it.

Same mindset as you and I hold my HP dearly and not selling for some shitty price as it is just too valuable. This is years of work and 1000's of hours to build what I have and appreciate the extras that come our way. You must have joined around the same time I did as it was about $4.50 when I signed up having no clue what this place was.

Good article!
And don't forget the airdrop that is promised for the Leo tokens we have staked.

Very true, that's a lot of free money handed out just for holding your stack powered up. With all the stuff being built on Hive, it's reason enough to stack more and more and hold for the long term. Nice read, food for thought.

Lovely! I already had my reason to keep growing my HP, but after this all my ideas have been confirmed and strengthened an enlightened. I often listen to people complaining about the prices of cryptos going up and HIVE staying low, but they just don't simple get this is the perfect time to stake and stake big. The price will go up. And when it does, I hope I have staked as much as I can to get my account to at least 6 digits in HP. It's a big delirious for me at the moment because I started publishing here on November 4th of last year but already got 1600+ HP and I keep going on. I have put some delegations as passive income in LEO and other projects that repay in tokens or a little HIVE just to keep running that little drop from the sink.

This is truly the way, Hive account@mindtrap.
Cheers!

Yea there was quite a few airdrops based on hive power .... probaly you missed some, the byte or what was its name ... and there will probably be another airdrop for a gas token for second layer in Hive that blocktrades want to build.

https://twitter.com/mindtrap11/status/1359593715162095617

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