I decided to power up roughly 58k last week. At first I had kept it liquid to aim for market swings, but I decided to increase my voting power.

While people where mentioning a downward spiral that ofcourse had me consider what my best move would be.

I decided to power up, as I just like the community, made some friends which I hope to meet in 2026 (at least from Denmark and Sweden) en hope to visit Venezuela for the CAF marathon and join in the celebrations with the hiverun in the future aswell. (Checkbox from your list; friendship)

Furthermore, I just don’t care about the hive price anymore, so powering up gives me less to consider, sure it can go up or down, but I feel the power is in the community giving me (checkbox from your list; peace of mind , and still decent growth)

Finally - there is hope, for example - if Holozing is what I hope it will be, it can be another reason for new players outside of hive to join our communities and we can get some new energy (in all area’s)