In July 2020, and on my third blockchain anniversary, I promised that when I hit 2000 HP, I'd offer two 100HP delegations to redfish. Since then, it's gone up to 3 delegations to eligible participants in Power Up Day. Why? Because I know how difficult it is to get going on this blockchain. Also, this is a social blockchain so community, communication and engagement are key - all of this takes resources that are scarce for red fish. It's also a mostly caring community and this caring gave rise to this collaboration. I am glad because truth be told, as much as I'd like to be increasing the size and/or number of my own delegations, RL demands on my liquid Hive and HBD don't allow. When that changes, this will, too.

In the meantime, Power Up Day is all about numbers and strength. For individual Hiveans, it's about adding Hive (numbers) to your wallet. This strengthens your presence on the blockchain: the resources you need for voting, posting and engaging (commenting).

September Power Up Day and why I'm late

If you don't know what happens on Hive Power Up Day and how accounts stand to gain, read @traciyork's Power Up Day post and join next month?

The Power of Three delegations - if you didn't follow the link...

Each month I, and now @coquicoin and @lizelle, set aside 300 HP each - a total of 900HP. Then we each individually delegate 100HP to the three accounts that meet the basic Power Up Day Criteria.

In our case, though, and given our focus on redfish, the accounts must also be -

• be less than 6 months old
• have at least two qualifying posts since the previous power up day.
  Posts that qualify must have 200 words or more and exclude posts for Power Up Day, and Actifit.
  As a reminder, the reason I added the second criterion is because -
  Hive is a social blockchain: it's for socialising, ruminating and just generally hanging out.
• a reputation of less than 61
• not more than 500 HP in their accounts before they power up - both on the first of the month

Qualifying accounts for October

When she published her unofficial winners list for October, Traci reported that this month's PUD participation reached an ATH (all time high). Specifically:

... 116 qualifying entries for the prize pool (compared to 114 in September) with 191 total entries (compared to 182 last month) and 211 posts with either the #HivePUD, #HPUD, and/or #HispanicHPUD tags on the first (last month we had 201).

This would lead one to think we'd be spoilt for choice with qualifying red fish accounts.

NOT: only two

With only two qualifying accounts, Traci suggested that this month, like last, we select from the noob accounts to which she powered up for October. There were three, and we couldn't pick between them so I chucked them in the random pick thing and

Ta-DA!

The three accounts to which each of us will delegate 100HP for 21 days are:

@grindan, @creepymeow and @ninjakitten

Evidence of Delegation - @fionasfavourites

Here is proof of my delegations:

Lizelle and Eli will do their delegations, themselves, so keep an eye on your wallets.

But that's not all

In addition to the delegations, @grindan, @creepymeow and @ninjakitten have all been added to my fanbase and receive a daily 100% upvote (when my mana remains above 90%); I also ask @ginabot to notify me each time they post. If I have an opportunity, I pop over and have a gander and occasionally weigh in on whatever the post may be about. Oh, and if I've got less than 90% mana, and the autovote hasn't happened, I will manually upvote.

A last word - or two

Thanks as always to @traciyork, @victoriabsb and @hivebuzz for all the hard work they do each month - and around the blockchain, generally.

Thanks too, to @doze for the super Hive graphics that he develops and shares for us all to use. Do check out his posts and perhaps drop by and show some Hive love.

Until next time, be well
Fiona
The Sandbag House
McGregor, South Africa

Photo: Selma
Post script

If this post might seem familiar, it's because I'm doing two things:

• re-vamping old recipes. As I do this, I am adding them in a file format that you can download and print. If you download recipes, buy me a coffee. Or better yet, a glass of wine....?
• and "re-capturing" nearly two years' worth of posts.

I blog to the Hive blockchain using a number of decentralised appplications.

• From Wordpress, I use the Exxp Wordpress plugin. If this rocks your socks, click here or on on the image below to sign up.

• Join Hive using this link and then join us in the Silver Bloggers' community.

Original artwork: @artywink

• lastly, graphics are created using partly my own photographs, images available freely available on @hive.blog and Canva.