Reaching 5000 HP goal on #HivePowerUpDay

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

Would you believe it's already September!! Dang, time really flies. Soon 2023 will be over.

It is time for another power-up day. Another month is gone and it feels like we just started the year. Anyways, here is what the PowerUP process is...as explained by the all-knowing ~~thekittygirl~~ kittypedia.

The PowerUp process is when we take liquid assets (HIVE, in this case) and stake them on-chain. In very simplistic terms, it's akin to buying stock, proving that you believe in the future of the chain. In return for the stake, those who PowerUp have a greater vote value when they upvote posts (which, in turn, earn greater Curation Rewards), have more Resource Credits (RC) with which to transact with the blockchain and earn 'dividends' of HP awarded periodically over time.

August was one of the best months for me where I posted almost every day. I still had 3 days where I didn't post but it was a massive improvement from July. Also, my engagement on both the blockchain and Discord has seen some progress.

My posts did well and one of my recent posts got the Hivebuzz trophy for "Most Voted Post of the Day". I didn't think I would get this trophy but I did it. It took me almost 2 years though but better late than never...eh?

I love September as the weather starts to cool off a little and I happen to have my birthday this month too. So, I have high hopes for this month.

Let's talk about what we are here for, I powered up 50 HIVE earlier today but when I saw the UTC time it was still half an hour left for the day to be over so I had to do another power-up. I was so close to getting to 5000 that I sold my HBD and got HIVE from the internal market, swapped my HIVE.SWAP for HIVE from my H-E wallet. I needed less than 75 HIVE.

And guess what? I just had enough liquid HIVE. I powered up 75 HIVE after making sure it was the 1st of September in UTC time...lol

Reaching 5K HP milestone

I now have 5K HP. Almost all of this is from Post Payout alone. Now this is a milestone to be proud of! 😍

This was the HP goal I set up for this year, I had to ditch my HBD savings to achieve that so early. Now I can focus on my HBD goal too. I have been setting my post payout to 100% HP for so long and you can see the results by just doing that.

I thought it would take me 5 years to reach here but the dipping Hive Price and setting 100% HP payout option made me achieve this in under 2 years. I want to thank so many friends who helped me in this journey but it would take me a few hours even if I remember all of them.

_{HP growth chart}

I will still tag a couple of friends from my Chaos squad. Hive account@queenstarr Hive account@yaziris Hive account@stayten. It would not be here had I not met you all three at the same. Thanks for the memories, guys 😘