Hive Power Up Day: Getting Closer to 20,000 HP
Once again we have the Hive Power Up Day! Today, I have powered up 100 Hive enough to get the second tier badge from Hive Buzz. But this is not about badges, though those are fun :) This is about consistently growing on Hive so you will notice that I have been making small power ups on several occasions during the month of September:
As you can see the main source of my Hive growth in September has been author rewards. Followed probably by power ups, then witness rewards and finally some curation rewards that are growing nicely as my power is growing:
The last time I wrote one of this posts was approximately two months ago on August 1st. At the time I was ranked at number 910:
And today before the power up I have moved up to the 789th position:
And after my small power up I should be up to 783rd position right above @vsc.network. My Hive Power goal for this year was 21,000 HP which it looks like I will be able to exceed, 22,000 or even 23,000 HP is looking realistic at this point.
This week @beaker007 released a great tool that lets you see your Hive balance from the inception of your account. You can access this great tool and more at: https://beebalanced.streamlit.app/balance_history_page
Here is what my Hive Power Chart looks like:
My account was created by Splinterlands on August 1, 2021 and for the longest time I didn't even visit Hive. My first balance of 23.9 Hive has fist appeared on January 29, 2022! Then a long period of almost nothing for over a year until February 19, 2023 when I started making occasional posts about Splinterlands.
Then you see a long period of very slow growth until September 2nd 2024 when I read a series of posts by Azircon on Hive and Splinterlands players. After that you see a big change! September of last year is when I started to get serious about Hive. So you can say that September is my first Hive anniversary!
In that year I went up from 1,914 HP to 19,127 HP that you see now! So I did a ten times of my Hive Power in just one year! Is that sustainable, no but I hope to double my Hive Power in the next year...
And when it comes to the Hive Power Up Day, I have not missed one this year! And I plan to continue doing power ups on Hive Power Up Day and the days in between. My post payout is set to 100% Hive Power Up, but some of my rewards still come in as HBD which I convert into Hive and make additional power ups.
I have been also doing pretty good with getting Hive Power Up Month badges that you get for posting or powering up daily. I have missed getting that badge in January, April and this month. This month I missed it because while on vacation in California I walked into jacuzzi with a phone in my pocket. That was my old Samsung S20 FE that was not even water resistant, so I missed the next three days of posting because I was without a phone :)
I am on a really dinky donky old phone Samsung A13 or something like that and my Samsung S25 is supposed to arrive tomorrow. It is amazing but T-Mobile is out of stock on all phones in Washington state and mine had to be shipped from Nevada.
Once the phone is here I will be able to take better pictures for my posts :)
I am a Hive Witness and would really appreciate your vote for me as a witness: https://vote.hive.uno/@seattlea

I powered up aswell... You did a good jump in the rankings! And a nice steady hp increase
You could have ordered the phone on Amazon 😅
Yes, but then I wouldn't get $1000 credit for my broken S20 :)
Wait, they give you 1000$ discount for giving them your broken phone??
Yep...
Congratulations for the power up.
Thank you
Also just powered up today👍.
Nice and impressive to see your growth curve 💪
Thanks, trying my best.
Happy New Month

Sending you Ecency love
Thank you!
Nice job on your power up. 20K or bust! I did a small power up myself today.
Thank you!
Your growth in HP over the last year has been impressive, and I think it's also motivating for new users!
Congratulations and Happy HPUD!
Thank you!