My 25th HIVE Power Up Day January 1st 2024 ⚡🔋— Waiting for WOO to launch this year! 🤑🎉

HELLO January 2024!

It's the 1st day of the month and that means it's HIVE Power Up Day again! 🎉🚀 Just like that, the ENTIRE year of 2023 has passed us by. 😱⌛️

The year has surely ended strongly for all things crypto. After all the gloom and doom that the first half of the year brought following the collapse of FTX, the outlook seems wildly optimistic now. The question now is WHEN, rather than IF, the SEC will approve all the BTC ETFs from major Wall Street players. A bull run that put the previous all time high to shame looks to be on the horizon after this! 😜📈🚀

Another month in this year has gone by in a flash! I've joined HIVE since November 2021 and I'm still learning so many new things everyday! I first heard of Hive Power Up Day in January 2022 and all its other acronyms (PUD, PUM, PUH 😂 what a mouthful) and I'm into my 22nd consecutive month of participation in HPUD now!

• I've attained yet another PUM badge for the month! 📅🥳 (at least 1 post/powerup everyday!).

_{Ever since I started with the HPUM initiative in 2022, I've tried my best to faithfully make one blog post everyday in an attempt to get the Hive Power Up Month badge. I've managed to make it successfully for 9 out of 12 months in 2022, and then improved on it in 2023 with 10 out of 12 months! I will be attempting to get as many as I can again in 2024! 🥳💯}

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Another successful month of making at least ONE post a day with 100% to HIVE powered up (or powering up 1 HIVE). 🥳

This makes it 10 months (thus far) where I managed this achievement LAST year (2023).

Blogging regularly and having the HPUM to incentivize me has other tangible benefits too! I've seen my Hive Power grow quite a fair bit. This seems like a good practice which I intend to continue keeping up with!

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In my VERY FIRST month before before I ever heard about Hive Power Up Day/Month, I was at just 47 HP 😭 (Before Jan 1st 2022).

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This month, before I've even powered up anything at all, I'm already at 7694 HP! 🎉🎉🎉

That's how consistent blogging on HIVE, with (mostly) 100% allocated to Hive Power, improved my HIVE account!

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And NOW... AND its POWERUP time! ⚡️💪 (1st January 2024)

Once again, I only have enough HIVE set aside for a 10HP powerup, but I'm sure with my continued efforts to blog with 100% powered up to HIVE, I will be able to grow my Hive Power even more!

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Using https://hivestats.io/ , I was able to pull out a chart showing my daily account growth for the past month too. Great to see that orange graph head upwards continually 📈😄! If only my stocks portfolio and the price of HIVE looked like that too 😂🤑.

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As always, I usually make just the minimum powerup of 10 HIVE. This is because there are so many projects that I'm now invested in. The HIVE ecosystem is so much bigger than what I had thought it was when I first joined. I believe my constant allocation of most of my daily posts being 100% powered up is sufficient to grow my Hive Power daily. The rest of any funds from HIVE will usually be kept for other projects that are of interest to me (on HIVE of course 😁).

As always, I'll like to explain that the reason why I do not powerup every single bit of HIVE/HBD I get every month from my blogging is because I like to keep some liquidity around to invest in HIVE projects that I feel have some potential.

As it has been with the past few months, my extra funds lying around HIVE has been channelled into the Wrestling Organization Online aka WOO project! 🤑

Well, I had expected WOO to have fully launched by now, but in their quest to iron out lots of bugs to make it a smooth game, the launch has been delayed for a few months now.

However, this is nothing to worry about as players have been testing in their closed Alpha and recently, the open Beta is fully open to the public now! All that remains are a few more things to solve before it's a go!

I have high hopes for WOO especially since they've onboarded an entire lineup of former pro wrestlers as partners. The potential for the game to gain traction amongst the non HIVE crowd via wrestling fans is huge! This could really be the next big Dapp in the Hive ecosystem.

I'll be rooting for @bookerman and his team to pull it off successfully. WOO! 🎉

I'll see you all again during the next Power Up Day next month with another update! Till then, See you and WAGMI! 💎🙌🏻🦍💪🏻