HELLO March 2026!
It's the 1st day of the month and that means it's HIVE Power Up Day again! 🎉🚀 Just like that, THE FIRST 2 MONTHS of the year of 2026 has gone past us already! 😱⌛️
February turned out to be a tough month for crypto as price action that started weak in January extended into February without relief. Bitcoin and Ethereum, which had briefly shown green early in the year, ended up sliding further as risk sentiment deteriorated.
Bitcoin spent most of the month trading roughly between $60,000 and $70,000 after a sharp sell-off earlier in the year. That marked one of the steepest monthly declines in some time and set up February as potentially the worst month for price performance since mid-2022. Various factors pushed the market down, including sustained outflows from spot BTC ETFs, macro pressures such as high interest rates and a stronger US dollar, and renewed fear tied to geopolitical tensions. Bitcoin’s volatility was also bumped by headlines like tariff policy uncertainty and Middle East conflict fears impacting risk assets. Ethereum underperformed even more, slipping below $2,000 and reflecting broader weakness in network activity and trading volume. Many altcoins were similarly pressured, putting the total crypto market cap back in risk-off territory.
What about our very own HIVE? February was a month of sideways to mild downward drift in price, tracking the broader weakness in the market rather than showing any significant outperformance or decoupling. HIVE was trading in the rough ballpark of about $0.08 down toward about $0.064–$0.068 by late February. That’s a noticeable slide compared to earlier in the month and reflects broader risk-off sentiment, since smaller tokens typically get hit harder when BTC and ETH are weak.
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! 2024 saw a similar 10/12 but I managed to improve it to an almost perfect 11/12 in 2025! (Yikes! So near yet so far 😂) I will be attempting to get as many as I can again (perhaps a perfect score?) in 2026! 🥳💯
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 2 months (thus far) where I managed this achievement IN THIS NEW year of 2026.
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 21,645.742 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 MARCH 2026)
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!
It seems like my February’s posts mostly circled around the now-familiar theme of the “quiet weekend” in WOO. Instead of constant events or big announcements, the focus was on reading between the lines. A lot of the discussion leaned into hints dropped in Discord, reminders to look back at past announcements, and the idea that something limited or not currently available might be tied to recent updates. The tone throughout the month was less about hype and more about awareness, encouraging the community to slow down and pay attention.
At the same time, there was a steady spotlight on content outside the ring, especially episodes of Shootin’ with Saturn and the push for Hive posts tied to those videos. Rather than framing quiet weekends as inactivity, the posts presented them as a shift in focus. February felt like a month where WOO was building momentum in quieter ways, growing through content, conversation, and subtle preparation instead of loud event launches.
I'll see you all again during the next Power Up Day next month with another update! Till then, See you and WAGMI! 💎🙌🏻🦍💪🏻
