I was hoarding Hive for few days for the Hive Power Up Day

While my daily routine assumes to power up any liquid Hive that I have, as we are approaching the Hive Power Up Day (even read some posts on that) got me incentivized to keep some Hive in order to participate to this initiative. So I was hoarding liquid Hive from all my content posts and engagement in order to join the others and power up on 1st of August 2026. Being a part of such a movement feels quite good and I believe this is beneficial for the entire ecosystem by locking some Hive for the 13 weeks and showing support. Looking at the Hive price these days is depressive, so it is better to participate in community initiatives and enjoy posting and engaging with other authors. We are still going through a bear market so that's somehow expected, thus we need to play the long game and not get affected by what's currently happening. Or at least that's what I am trying to do.

So in these few days that I stopped staking on the spot, I succeeded to gather 162.321 liquid Hive. While having already in the balance 198,745.871 Hive Power and with the new top-up, I have reached 198,916.933. And with that I am closer to an immediate goal after I did a bold move some times ago - Filled my bags with 140k Hive Power for under $0.05 each - and that goal is to reach 200,000 Hive Power. Probably these will happen in the next week or so considering that I am quite active lately, only not to get to crowded at work and not be able to do that. Maybe not in one week, but in two for sure. Or at least that's what I hope to.

I don't know about other Hive Power Up Day events, but for this one I felt it was a lot of buzz created few days before it. Not only that I read article for the incoming event on the Hive blockchain itself, but I saw posts also on other social media like Twitter (X) - yeah, I still like the old name - or Reddit. Hopefully with that more users that usual will participate to #HPUD and stake liquid Hive into Hive Power. This is not only a community driven initiative, but also a commitment to this ecosystem. And as we are traversing a bear market, now is the best time to power up in order to get more curation rewards and put ourselves in a better spot when the market tides turn around.

For me from here on, I will continue to stake Hive as soon as I get any liquid form of it. That helps with curation and I will be able to put these tokens more at work. In the same time I don't have any reason to keep them as liquid Hive as the market does not favor that and neither do I have any other plans. So all that I get, I will move right away into Hive Power. Staking Hive is like planting a seed and waiting for it to grow from there. And at some point we might have a beautiful harvest, but we need to nurture it and keep at it. That's my plan, good or bad only time will tell, but I am committed to it. Let's go!!! 🚀🚀🚀