My first [shameful] HPUD

in #hive-1679222 years ago

This is nothing to brag about, I've been part of the Hive ecosystem for 5 years now, and believe I have never participated in the Hive Power Up Day before a few days ago. This is not because I didn't want to, but mainly because most of the Hive Power I managed to amass since I've been part of this obscure, digital money-generating, anti-establishment fighting, pseudo-anarchy supporting, deep-web-money-laundering relating, taxation-is-theft promulgating, inflation-kills-economies believing, conspiracy-theories accepting, self-definition living, off-grid-mentality acquiring, revolutionary-mindset thinking, North Korean crotchet weaving, Latvian-Origami making, Norwegian Guerilla training, Peruvian Salt Water drinking, Indonesian Monkey-training, ecosystem, was back when I was posting about traveling off-the-beaten-path, being half of the OCD witness, and providing liquidity to OCDB.

At one point, I had around 90k Hive Power. Not a lot for some of you, perhaps something beyond imagination for some others in the back, but I actually never powered it up, because my Hive Power was doing other stuff for the Hive Ecosystem. I built my own account's Hive Power through post rewards, and I grew my alt accounts - no, I'm not telling you which ones are those - through several trades I've made.

I'm not close to my ATH hive bag, not even close, perhaps a little bit shy of halfsies of what I used to have when anomad was anomad.

But I realized I had never joined a single power up day, not even once, because out of the few times I actually powered up, I did it willy nilly with no intention of doing it on a specific time of the month, I just powered up when I had the Hive.

A few days ago I had some extra crypto liquid and I was debating myself between going full force into altcoins and staking that bag into the USDC-PHBD farm in the Polycub ecosystem, buying some shady altcoins, or powering up Hive. Since I already have a big position in Polycub, and since pretty much the first rule when you are investing - not only for crypto investments, but investing in general - is to spread your risk by having multiple positions, and since the altcoin market is about to boom or bust depending on the token, I decided to go for my first crypto love, the one that has let me down several times but has also increased my love for the cryptospace some other times: Hive.

I didn't even realize it was HPUD when I powered up 20k Hive, I just noticed I did it exactly when I had to when I received a Badge notification for participating in July's #HPUD. I guess you can imagine my surprise and at the same time, the smile on my face, I suppose it was meant to be that I powered up on HPUD five years and two months after I made my first post.

This is not a flex, I know 20k HP takes you nowhere regarding post rewards, but it does increase my reward allocation influence in a very nice way, I can finally significantly reward comments on my posts and give back some of the love I've received over the past years - back when I had a blocktrades delegation, and when I had tens of thousands of HP, all of my votes were committed to community initiatives during the whole time I had a stake that mattered, until now.

Image stolen from @joanstewart's blog. go follow her, she's almost as great as HPUD haha


I wish I could say I am close to my Hive Power goal established by myself four years ago, which is to hold 100k HP, but I am not, there's still a long way to go, I just don't have any more liquid to put into Hive anymore, and I not only aim to have 100k HP, I also aim to have 250k Leo at one point, so now you can imagine how far I am from those goals, which I am obviously not going to meet by just posting, not even in 100 years, which in turn takes me to my other bags' situation: I'm investing in other coins that I believe can boom or bust and give me some buying leverage against Hive - which some times takes a few weeks to pump after any bull market begins - so we'll see how that goes.

In the meantime, congratulate me - or not, as I said this is not a flex, I should've been part of HPUD a long, long time ago - because I now have some reward allocation to give back to the community what it has been selflessly given to me.

Small announcement if you kept reading this til the end: Leo Finance and Blocktrades are giving away two HiveFest tickets, make sure to check out the contest here

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Seriously good goals and I think you and I are in the same point about not having much liquid to inject into LEO and Hive right now. That's a huge pain point for myself right now being with how low prices are. I'd love to just inject 5k 10k even 25k if I could lol

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Someday I wish I can also power up some hive but right now my account is till under development and I hope I can get someone to help with deligation and help me in building my account

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You don't get to rep 67 with no upvotes on your posts. You have over 100 liquid Hive which you can easily power up to grow your account, and if you don't withdraw all all your earnings you'll grow much quicker. Asking for delegation to build your account is just being downright greedy

Its OK friend I will look into that aspect thanks

Congrats!
20k is a nice round number!

That's a nice amount to POWER UP to...

I remember you mentioning you've got two online jobs now, are they both pretty stable?

Congrats at joining the day. That's a nice amount to power up!

Keeping contact and growing slowly with community is rewarding, now you may/maybe not remember to add a little every month 🙂.

!LUV Hive blockchain....

Lol, different strokes for different folks you know. Here I am looking for a way to have 1/5 of your hive power, at least for now. You are doing pretty well and you should soon get to your dreams.


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Congratulations on your FIRST HPUD 🥳🥳
That’s just great to read up on it… “why…” funny actually that this is your first after so many years. But… you have been truly buzzy… 😉🐝 keep on doing your great work! Much appreciated!

For others it’s an massive amount 🤩 inspirational.
Up to HIVE goals 🍾🥂
Have an amazing start of this new week @anomadsoul
👋🏻☀️

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Congratulations! Noticed it on the HPUD update by hivebuzz where you made 20k power up so I said "Wow! That's massive!" It may not be big for others but that's a dream number for most (me included). All the best to you on your investments and to your target numbers too. I believe that at some point, you will be able to hit them :)

And the initiative of LeoFinance and Blocktrades for the HiveFest is awesome! It will definitely make 2 lions very happy :) Kudos to all that you do!

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