THE NEW STEEM POWER DOWN SLIDER BUTTON, NOT FOR MINNOWS; POWER UP MORE

in #nigeria7 years ago (edited)

Dear minnows!

A beautiful update just hit town. It is not for us. I shouldn't have it brought to your notice in the first place because it is not for us, rather, it is for the whales. Very Awesome feature but not for us. The new power down slider button. This really good feature saves the whales (not us) powering down 1/13th of their steem power thereby allowing them the freedom to choose the exact amount of steem power they wish to power down per week as explained by @maryfavour on one of her recent posts. Really nice, goes a long way to prove the developers are working really hard to provide us with a better, accessible interface for our blogging experience.

SEE SCREENSHOT

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Please do not get me wrong, anyone can actually decide to power down his or her steem power at any time. I could even teach those who don't know how to power down but since i don't encourage anyone to do so, i will rather teach you to power up.We are getting there though, for now let me tell you why it is such a bad idea and why i said i know i should not have brought the topic up though i still did. I am sorry about that, i just had to mention it because we all need to understand the need to "power up more". Even madam @maryfavour herself adviced minnows via comments on the same post to avoid powering down.

WHY DO WE EVEN NEED STEEM POWER?
I will try to break it to the simplest term as possible. Now see, unless you don't want to become a whale, become a successful and influential steemian, then you don't need steem power. Do you want to be a role model to newbies? If you nodded a yes, you need as plenty steem power as possible.

Check this out. Steem Power (SP) determines your voting power when curating (voting for posts/comments). This is to say the more steem power you accumulate, the more weight you vote has, the more value your vote gives. You can't transfer it anytime like the Steem Backed Dollars (SBD) but it can be converted to Steem through the powering down process (not advisable for minnows).

We can also say that Steem power is the Power that steems/steams energy into the steemit community. prettycynthia 2017 (Oh Lord!)

HOW TO POWER UP MORE
Yes! i will gladly teach you this one. (never knew teaching can be this sweet....steemit i thank you o haha) Now, you need to know the rewards you earn from posting and voting good contents are split 50/50 to your wallet as Steem Power and SBD, that is why you wake up everyday to see you SP is increasing. Thumbs up, you are already accumulating, keep steeming.

You can however, invest in steem power by simply purchasing STEEM from bittrex (you will have to register an account with them if you don't have already) or converting your SBD to STEEM then powering up.( This one is for us). It is a very simple process. Hey! are you convinced? If you ask me if you should really power up it is a loud Yes.

See another reason to do so by @stackin. He said;

Once you get enough steem power (5000+), you will start getting more followers, higher upvotes, and tons of comments etc etc...

What crypto traders and enthusiasts have to say about the future of STEEM and steemit will blow your mind!

Ever thought about the worth of 1 steem in a few years to come?

If Amazon and Tesla are bullet proof stocks, then Steem is your bullet proof blockchain for investors. STEEM to $1000 in under 5 years. @jacobts

See what @marsresident said on his post about the future of steem

So STEEM has broken out of the Shell of the Altcoin world, which was restricted to the Bitcoin community, and is reaching out to the world of Social Media. Steemit is a platform that could easily grow as large as Bitcointalk, then as large as Reddit, then as large as Facebook. Facebook has had years to get where it is at.

You right now; smiling, reaching for a calculator, now you calculating how much your 2k+ SP will be worth when STEEM hits $1000....

haha "pocket that thing"

Let us see how to power up
simple steps...

  • First you go to>"Wallet" when it opens>Click Steem>then Click Power Up

  • Enter the amount of steem you want to convert to SP> Again Click Power up
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    Feel free to laugh at my steem balance then send a tip (Wink)

  • After you enter your prefered amount Click the faded POWER UP BUTTON as seen above will become sharper
    Click to proceed

  • Enter your Active Key or Master Password>Click Sign In
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YOU CAN ALSO LEARN TO POWER UP MORE really fast with your SBD using BlockTrades!.
I just discovered this in the course of writing this. Since i didn't have any STEEM to run this tutorial, i went with this method, experimented with my dear 4SBD, Brethren, Lol, It worked..

See Prove

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Thanks to research and to @oumar.
Got it right? now repeat the process as many times as possible till you accumulate 10k+ SP...Goodluck Sweeties




RESTEEMING THIS MAY BE HELPFUL TO SOMEONE ELSE you know right? haha Thanks in advance and hey! your thoughts mean the world to me as it can learn more from you. STAY BLESSED


Your favorite rookie
@prettycynthia

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money bring more money. no matter were this happening - in the real life or here - in this virtual space of Steem.

true talk. thanks for that beautiful contribution.

Excellent post , followed, upvoted and resteemed,

Thanks a lot

Great....! I really need whalepower right about now. Power down??? It never even crossed my mind.

power down for what! singing...lol

Well said @prettycynthia, powering down shouldn't be a thing any minnow should be thinking of doing, they should focus more on building their steem power because this will help them build their account..nice post

thanks sweetie....i can see you learning fast too.

Definitely. It is the only reasonable thing to do; powering up. The power down should not be an option for minnows.

Not an option at all. Well written post. Well done @prettycynthia

not for us thanks for visiting....hope you always come back

Sure I will. Keep steeming.

Thank you for these clarifications

you welcome dear

Good advice and clear instructions, upvoted!

Thanks a lot

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thanks very much for your generosity...pray you receive more than you give....hope you always visit my blog (wink)

Nice Post @prettycynthia... Minnows need information like this to know exactly one thing that will add to their growth here on steemit. Upvoted and resteemed

Yeah...we all need to become whales. I wish every newbie can just come on board as a whale

Fun simple informative. Nice post. Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks too for stopping by. This message should get to all the minnows

I define many of my posts to 100% steempower instead of the default 50/50 and that seems to work out fine for me - just joined 2 weeks ago and being a tech autist, I might be totally in the woods with my perception... thank you for your post! got me looking at all of those steem and power issues more closely again :-) Cheers from the seven mountains in Germany

It's a wise decision to power up even before getting payout..lol cheers

I've been following this advise and powering up the more. This is good, let's get substantial steem power before thinking of powering down. Very relevant post. Thank you.

You're most welcome

Thanks for the information on powering up or down. Its very useful.

Thanks for coming around dear.... i know i owe you something i will surely redeem....some more time please?

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