If you see me right now, you’d think I won a lottery😂 I am so excited, because I finally participated in the hive power up day for the first time ever! It feels like an achievement, and I think my excitement is valid.
I have been on hive for over a year now. I realized that when I received a notification on hivebuzz on Sunday, wishing me a happy hive birthday—‘how time flies!’. So, since a year ago that I have been a part of this amazing Hive family, I have never participated in the Hive Power Up day.
I always wondered what it meant and I see how much people look forward to powering up every first day of the month. When I got to know about the significance, I was so eager to be a part of it.
On my birthday, I was gifted 5 Hive by @hopestylist and thanks to her, I had that in my account until yesterday. I was discussing with @starstrings01 yesterday and told him to tell me more about powering up. It was during the conversation I learnt that the minimum amount one can power up is 10 Hive and I clearly didn’t have up to that. All my HBD has been in my savings and I couldn’t turn them to Hive.
He asked if I was going to power up and I told him I didn’t have up to the required minimum of 10 Hive in my account. The next question he asked was ‘are you sure?’. I was like ‘yes of course’ and proceeded to log into my account to screenshot my wallet and send to him. As I got to my wallet and was about taking the screenshot of the page, I miraculously saw my 5 Hive turn 10.
Yes, you guessed right! @starstrings01 sent me the 5 Hive😂😌. I was so happy guys, I rushed into his DM to thank him.
Fast forward to today, I finally powered up my Hive and was able to participate in the Hive Power Up day for the very first time since I joined Hive, thanks to @hopestylist and @starstrings01❤️.
I went into the wallet section of my account and clicked on the dropdown button below my Hive balance. Saw the power up option and clicked on it after asking @starstrings01 if that was the right step to take (I must not make a single mistake, you know🌝😂).
I had already copied my active key because I knew I would be needing it. I learned that during one of our lectures in the newbies initiatives that we’ll always use our active key for making transactions on Hive (I’m an attentive student, I know😌😌😌)
I then went ahead to power up my 10 Hive and chose to leave my extra .001 in the account, I don’t even have a reason for that😂.
This stage didn’t catch me by surprise, since I already had my active key copied beforehand.
So, I just pasted itThis what how my Hive account looked like after I completed the power up process.
My account entered 400HP!!! The exciting thing about this is that I set some hive goals in once of the newbies initiative tasks given to us and one of my goals was to reach 500HP before the end of the year. I realized that I was very close to attaining that goal and I will work very hard and be intentional about hive, so I would reach my goal and even beyond.
I will also work towards participating in the subsequent Hive power up days.
Thanks for reading❤️