It's 🍻 Uptober, Everyone! Time to Celebrate & Power Up Some HIVE

I'm finally doing my part in strengthening the community by powering up on October 1st, 2026.

I don't have much HIVE yet 🦥, so I'm quite happy to reach Level 1 by powering up 10 HIVE. This would get me the Small Bee Badge, which can be seen in my HiveBuzz page at hivebuzz.me/@bulkovam.

If you've been reading about #HPUD, #PUD or HIVE Power Up Day mentioned here and there, but not really understanding what it is and how it works, well... I guess it's time to find out.

Check out your HiveBuzz page, it should be inside the Power Up tab.

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Powering Up Through the Keychain

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We can power up through every platform on Hive, be it Peakd, SlothBuzz, Ecency, so long as there's a wallet option. But this time I am powering up through the Keychain, a custody web3 wallet, which I have already installed as a browser extension.

The keychain can be downloaded through the Hive Keychain website as an app or as a browser extension 🐝 hive-keychain.com

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Powering Up Step By Step

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That's it! In just 1-2-3-4 steps, I've completed my first Power Up Day this October. Once the power up was successful, I checked back my HiveBuzz section. There was a gift box ready to be unwrapped.

The next day I finally received a Level 1 Small Bee Badge for powering up 10 HIVE. You can see the Small Bee in action the banner of my post on the top of this page 🍯🐝

This small action has positioned me in the ranking of #224 out of, at the time of writing, a total of 380 participants. I read about this little site that has all the statistics of the current (and past) Power Up Days in @relf87's post.

Want to check out your ranking? It's right over here 🕸 powerup.hivecreators.co!

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Let's Power Through Uptober 🥳🎊

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Participating in the PUD automatically registers me as eligible for the Power Up Month challenge, so I thought why not give it a try?

If I choose to post daily every day for the whole month, I might miss a day. But... and this just occurred to me as I was writing this today, I've already missed a day! 😅 October 1st I did only one power up and not a 100% HP post.

So I guess we CAN mix these two things up. My plan is to just give it a go and see what happens at the end of Uptober. I'll be powering up 1 HIVE a day or dedicating one of my daily posts to 100% HP.

What about you? Are you powering up through October? Or perhaps you've done a whole month before?

I haven't set a yearly or monthly or some type of goal for myself on Hive yet. I should do that and try to track my growth regularly. And I've been tinkering for a couple of weeks now! Needless to say, I am not at all in my comfort zone here #BusyBees. It's hard to decide based off of my current inconsistency and lack of focus. I guess I'll just have to lurk around a bit and learn from others.

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Thankies!

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Thank you so much for reading my post. Happy PUD and Happy Power Up Month! Let's cheer each other on ✨🦥