HPUD - Its the start of a new month - December the 1st is here !!!

Its December and now we can start celebrating Christmas properly here in Scotland. Its one of my fav times of the year !!!! My daughters had a nice surprise as she got to open her advent calendars this morning !

[Pic of the Museum of Modern Art in Edinburgh, taken last December - heres hoping the slogan is true to its words !]

I've just completed my power up of just over 10 HP !

I had forgotten to hold back some HIVE in preparation for today, so raided 10 HIVE from my HBD:HIVE trading fund for todays power-up instead.

HPUD is really important for me. Growing my HP stack has been a goal since joining the HIVE ecosystem, and HPUD is a great way of helping that. I've currently got 10,103 HP and I'm now seeing the benefits from that in a number of places:

• My curation income,
• The ~3% APR on HP balances - it does not sound like much, but at 10K HP, that adds up to 300 HP per year, or ~6 HP per week,
• Other incomes from various HP delegations.

I also really like the community aspect of HPUD. It creates a buzz at the start of each month, and why not ! We should celebrate the start of a new month, and its great that those who have participated have more in their HP stack - we are all growing together ! Plus its good for the HIVE ecosystem - so whats not to like.

I also looked back at my history, and on the 3rd of December last year I had 2,869 HP, so have managed to grow that by 7,234 HP over the year which is quite incredible - the blockchain is a great place for opportunity.

[Crime scene - the dismembered and headless remains of a poor snow man that we found in a park near our home last December]

Anyway, all the best to anyone else joining in on HPUD today - keep on stacking !!!!

All the best from Scotland !