HELLO December 2025!
It's the 1st day of the month and that means it's HIVE Power Up Day again! 🎉🚀 Just like that, ELEVEN MONTHS of the year of 2025 has gone past us already! 😱⌛️
The crypto markets never fail to surprise, AKA nothing is a sure bet, and past patterns are no indication of future results.
November turned into one hell of a ride, A DOWNWARDS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE 🤣, but with flashes of possibility. Bitcoin ended the month down roughly 20–25% from its early November levels, and by late November it was trading in the low-to-mid $80,000s. That marks one of the worst monthly drops in years.
Ethereum and most altcoins got dragged down too. ETH dropped significantly with a lot of positions liquidated, weak flows, and sentiment tanking. By mid month, market fear was back in full force. Fear and greed metrics hit deep “fear” zones, and many traders and funds retreated to stablecoins or cash.
On the flip side: late in November there were hints of stabilization. Bitcoin bounced modestly from the worst of the slide, and some viewed the sell-off as a long-overdue cleansing of excess leverage, potentially laying the groundwork for whatever comes next.
What about our very own HIVE? It isn't faring well in November to be honest. HIVE is acting like many smaller tokens right now, quietly bleeding while the macro-crypto air turns cold.
So yes — November wasn’t pretty. Price action looked more like a washout than a consolidation. But as brutal as the week to week swings felt, some heavy hitters (whales, funds) appear to be viewing the drop as a buying window.
Regardless, I still remain bullish on the long term future of BTC and HIVE. Is this the last opportunity to accumulate more at current prices before it moons beyond no return? Who knows? I believe in the long term and will stick to my regular DCA regardless. 😜📈🚀
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've participated in HPUD every month since then!
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 have managed to maintain a similar 10/12 result in 2024 again and I will be attempting to get as many as I can again (perhaps a perfect score?) in 2025! 🥳💯
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 IN THIS CURRENT year of 2025.
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!
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).
This month, before I've even powered up anything at all, I'm already at 19,716.029 HP! 🎉🎉🎉
That's how consistent blogging on HIVE, with (mostly) 100% allocated to Hive Power, improved my HIVE account!
And NOW... AND its POWERUP time! ⚡️💪 (1st DECEMBER 2025)
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!
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.
It is no secret by now that quite a bit of my extra funds lying around HIVE has been channelled into the Wrestling Organization Online aka WOO project! 🤑
After months of talking about WOO during my HPUD posts, I am glad to say that WOO has FINALLY launched the game proper! All players can use their WOO assets, play the game, and earn $WOO tokens. The game has not yet exploded in terms of player numbers since it is so new, but there are already launch campaigns to give it the boost it needs!
November felt like a month of small updates and shifting momentum in WOO. Most of the posts focused on why weekend events were a bit quieter than usual, and each time there was a different reason behind it. Some weekends were slow because the team was finalizing work on the Beta announcement, while others were quiet because Booker was traveling or dealing with personal matters. There were also moments where the spotlight shifted to behind-the-scenes stuff, like new staff artwork being created or WOOBucks being confirmed for future features, all hinting that things were moving forward even if the schedule looked empty from the outside.
The biggest theme across the month was buildup. The Thanksgrappling event was announced, promoted, and eventually wrapped up, and many of the updates pointed toward bigger things coming for the end of the year. The posts captured that “calm before the storm” feeling where WOO wasn’t running constant events, but there was always something happening in the background that promised more action ahead.
I'll see you all again during the next Power Up Day next month with another update! Till then, See you and WAGMI! 💎🙌🏻🦍💪🏻
