I am now close to 19,000 STEEM Power and I think I would be able to achieve it this week God-willing which really makes me happy because I know that the value of steem would go up in the future which I think will follow BTC's price movement if BTC would get into the key valuation of around $20,000 and at that point in my opinion most cryptos would also follow.
STEEM Power is very crucial for everyone's survival in this platform particularly after the Hardfork which included the Economic Improvement Plan (EIP) that curved upward the earnings or value of posts after it passes 21 steem. It just means that your vote will be bigger if you upvote a post with a many big upvotes already but if you upvote a post with 0 votes in it your vote value is lesser.
I've been powering-up 100% for many months now because with the steem price so undervalued and with the changes already implemented it is just advisable to stack-up on steem because if it's value goes up we will just have a hard time collecting it like what happened in the past.
STEEM is a very god investment because of the active developments to improve it plus the plan of also creating SMT's will make a greater demand for it as other communities and dapps would use it and create a scarcity which support if not catapult its price.
Now having a bigger steem power would also make us earn more because of 50/50 author-curators share so you will basically get more in return for your upvote which you can feel if you have a larger stake.
Actually I could easily power-up my liquid STEEM and also sell my SBD but I do have a plan for those as some of it are donated by kind-hearted steemians for my medical needs. The plan is to just sell it if the price of steem is good enough for my medical plans to get a fulfillment or reality.
So the order of the day is to continue with my proof of brain work and invest my time into this platform so that in the future I could collect my dividends for my efferts that is now going on for more than two years nonstop.