Another month begins and that means it is #spud, or Steem Power Up Day. I'm joining in again and will be checking on some related data.

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In April 2019, an average of 106,304 STEEM was powered up every day with the average number of accounts powering up each day being 832.

In December 2019, an average of 140,004 STEEM was powered up every day with the average number of accounts powering up each day being 754.

That sounds like a vast improvement, but if we ignore this strange transaction where feedom Vests to the invisible man

Then the average daily power up is 116,074 STEEM for December 2019 - still 10k more than back in April last year.

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So I guess what we are looking for today is for a total to better 116k. I will update the post with the final figures tomorrow but so far today we have just over 45850 SP powered up with 275 different accounts getting involved.

The following accounts have all powered up over 250 SP today.

Account	STEEM vested
sharkface	7828.236
tarazkp	5724.868
greece-lover	5011.09
joshmania	5000
lunaticpandora	2408.303
jarvie	1396
abh12345	1100
neoxiancity	1000
davedickeyyall	935
welshstacker	773.473
chekohler	760.715
abbak7	630
tonyz	616.173
steevc	515.123
shanibeer	513.81
randomblock1	500.651
softmetal	500
luckyolddaddy	500
drakernoise	480.071
kaylinart	453.899
mahtabansari370	400
revisesociology	400
stranger27	366
dollarbills	360
sparkofphoenix	327.39
guruvaj	300
livinguktaiwan	300
mmunited	278
giuatt07	257.958

On the above list, there are numerous Steem Fest attendees, accounts that delegate to curation projects, and accounts that I feel are going the right way on Steem.

There has been much talk of a thin middle class over the past year or so, and so it is good to see many of those names listed. If I take a look through accounts closing in on 50,000 SP and those that have passed this number over the past couple of months, I see promise in the future.

gregory-f, eturnerx, holger80, blewitt, goblinknackers, tarazkp, slobberchops, smasssh, flipstar, abigail-dantes, meesterboom, joshman, davedickeyyall, etc, are all over 50k SP, and I see many of the same names when I look at the delegations to curation accounts and various communities.

Personally, I feel this is important for growth. It's all well and good collecting SP to reward yourself and a few dozen friends but without some of this SP going out to the wider community, retention won't get any better. I don't have time to curate the New feed, but there are a number of teams doing this now and so 5/10% of stake delegated out to, or trailing these accounts, seems like a small price (in CR) to pay.

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Anyway, today is the day to power up a little STEEM, however you acquired it.

Credit to the #spud man, @streetstyle for this initiative 👍🏽

Cheers

Asher

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Date: 1-1-2020
Unique account power-ups: 671
STEEM powered up: 219,755.330