I prefer sticking to leasing HP as that really makes the biggest difference I believe. My reasoning is that the cost of renting (around 8% APY) is mostly recovered by the curation rewards while the extra influence & goodwill by having votes that are actually worth 0.05$+ allow me to grow way faster compared to choosing 100% power up.

I'm actually surprised that not more people are doing this as I see it as one of the best longer-term strategies to go from nothing to actually building something here on Hive.

Cheers,