Hive Power Up Day 1 June 2023 - Trials and Tribulations

Life can be strange with all its twists and turns!

While I've been celebrating my 7⁰th birthday, our dear admin @fionasfavourites has been through a harrowing time; driving up and down the mountains to visit her husband who still is in ICU.

Fiona and her car must know every twist and turn, as well as bumps along that road - a round trip of some 140 kilometres to the hospital! We all know very well what that means, as fuel costs have escalated.

To say Fiona and her husband, especially, have both been through many trials and tribulations, is an understatement. Some very scary days, but thankfully glimmers of hope as well.

While he has valiantly been fighting for his life, Fiona has been the one to encourage, and still keep the pot cooking, soldiering on as only she can!

While we try to grow our community account for your benefit, we do realize there are times when we have to dig a little deeper, so we have dropped some liquid Hive into Fiona's wallet, and only powered up 10 Hive.
This community would not be what it is today, if it were not for our super-efficient admin who is experiencing a time of deep crisis.

Please continue to keep them both in your prayers and your hearts.

What is Power Up Day and why we "do" it

@nickyhavey summed it up really well in a post written back in 2020:

1. Stronger votes on content & witnesses - although you may not see this in the first instance if you stay for a longer time and keep powering up like I have over the last 2.5 years, then you will notice the accumulative effect
2. Earning more curation rewards - kinda goes with point 1 but the way it works is that if you upvote content, you will earn as well (known as curation rewards) so the more Hive Power you have, the more you can potentially earn back
3. Earning "interest" by holding Hive Power - maybe you didn't know this but you will also earn HIVE passively at about 3% per year of what you currently have powered up so the more HIVE you have, the more you can earn from just holding!
4. Earn by delegating - delegating is effectively "loaning" out your HIVE Power to others and some accounts may offer you a daily payment for doing so. If you have more to delegate, you can earn more by delegating which helps grow your balance even more!

Hive Power Up Day takes place, like clockwork, on the first of every month - with lots of prizes up for grabs - It's here! Hive Power Up Day for June 1st, 2023 ably managed by @traciyork with support from her numbers man @abh12345 and by the @hivebuzz team who award - in her words, awesomesauce badges.

Those who are able, take this time to power up some Hive, and/or cancel their power downs and pause trading/selling for the 24-hour span of the day.
If you'd like more in-depth information about Power Up Day, please check out this post from July 2021.

AND

If you're brave enough, take a peek at Hive PUM

Be ready for the June edition of the Hive Power Up Month! and be awarded a PUM badge and a Hive Power delegation from @hive-buzz.

Powering up

Our power-up today is the bare minimum, as explained, and here is the proof:

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How can you help with community growth

It's a team effort. Here are the ways you can help:

• add the community account to your fanbase so that you can autovote the Silver Bloggers community account (@hive-106316)
• with a delegation which you can either do yourself from your wallet or pick an amount from the table below
• add @hive106316 as a 5% beneficiary when you post in the community
• and...please reblog our posts so that they get more eyes on them

Don’t forget to join us in our Discord Channel for a chat in our Coffee Corner which is open to subscribed members only.

𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩

Join our Silver Bloggers community
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A handy table below if you wish to delegate to Silver Bloggers community

And, thank you in advance

Delegation	Delegation	Delegation
10	20	40
50	100	150
200	500	1,000