It's the 14th of the month again, and you know what that means? 🍕PIZZA POWERUP DAY🍕 is back! 🥳 We welcome you to March's edition of PPUD! 📆

Amazingly, for the second month in a row, this exact day coincides with yet another special real life event — PI DAY. If you still remember, last month's PPUD coincided with Valentines Day. Was this on purpose when picking the arbitrary 14th of every month? 🤔🤣 Who knows? I'll attribute it to pure coincidence. 😎

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What is this Power Up Day? It is a day where Pizza Holders and even new users are encouraged/incentivized to stake their $PIZZA together.

Why??? You might say. First off, and most importantly, $PIZZA Staking offers 12% APR paid out daily and is automatically staked to compound your interest. Granted, one can always stake Pizza anytime you like, but as a community event, you stand to win some prizes too! 🎁

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Wow! What a week! It first started with Silvergate aka THE Crypto Bank, and then spread to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. 3 reputable mid sized banks in the US blew up in smoke in just a week, one after another. The cascading effects of this bank run has sent global markets into a tailspin.

It looked like it was all over at this point. Multiple cascading bank runs would lead to contagion and even more bank runs on the entire banking system. Not only that, the 3 friendliest crypto banks were now out of the game leaving the ability to move fiat in and out of the system crippled. 📉🔥

But the market does what the market does. A quick reaction by the US government announcing their "NOT A BAILOUT" of said banks restored confidence in the system overnight. Where everything above the FDIC $250k insured deposits seemed to be going up in smoke, everything was now safe and guaranteed by Uncle Same himself.

Showing how unpredictable everything is, BTC, and by extension almost every cryptocurrency, suddenly went on a massive rebound in the past 24 hours, HIVE included. In fact, at $26k, BTC has now hit a 9 month high! 😱📈🚀

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🍕⚡Pizza Powerup Day Commences🍕⚡

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As always, THE PIZZA BOSS, @thebeardflex himself, led by example and fired off the very first PPUD right as the clock ticked into the start of the event! 🍕

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There has been an amazing number of PIZZA power ups this month again.

The top PIZZA power up for this PPUD goes to @hurtlocker! 🎉 But besides him, honourable mention should also go to @h3m4n7 and @plicc8 for their outsized powerups! 😱

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My initial amount of staked PIZZA stood at 9399 before today's PPUD! 🍕

And NOW... AND its POWERUP time! ⚡️💪🏻 (14th March 2023)

I powered up 300 PIZZA and am now at 9699 PIZZA! 🍕

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📈💎🙌🏻My Long-Term Plan📈💎🙌🏻

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Now clearly, I wouldn't just spend such an amount on the PIZZA token just for the fun of it. PIZZA as a token also has significant value and growth potential.

The price of PIZZA has once again stayed amazingly constant these past few months. Even with all the market turbulence around us, this token has such strong support that it's price is pretty much unaffected by any outside forces! 🤑🥳📈

Granted we've seen a slight dip in terms of HIVE pricing for PIZZA, but this is however offset by the general increase in the price of HIVE overall now.

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🍕📈PIZZA Staking APR of 12%🍕📈

Initial Stake	1 week	1 month	6 months	1 year
30.5	30.57	30.8	32.35	34.38
100	100.23	100.99	106.09	112.74
3000	3006.91	3029.73	3182.86	3382.42
5000	5011.51	5049.55	5304.76	5637.37
10000	10023.03	10099.1	10609.53	11274.74

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Personally, I'm even somewhat happy that I've been "given another chance" to accumulate more when the prices are this low! 🤑🤑🤑

I can see the potential in PIZZA (and also in HIVE) and am bullish on its future prospects. As they say, diamond hands and HODL 💎🙌🏻, I intend to just hold onto my tokens and since I've no intention of cashing out anytime soon, what better way than to participate in PPUD and locking it all in.

Pizza staking offers a 12% APR interest paid out daily which is automatically staked and compounded. The table above shows you an example of how much it'll grow within a year. It'll actually adds up to 12.74% APR this way.

This sounds low especially in the crypto world, but it is still far superior to any bank interest rates. 💰💰💰 (of course, this is simply my opinion and should not be construed as financial advice, and all readers will have to do their own due diligence)

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💎🙌🏻🎉🥳🎊WAGMI💎🙌🏻🎉🥳🎊

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I hope to continue to powerup monthly in this community event whilst also growing my PIZZA stake. It would be most interesting indeed to chart my monthly progress this way too.

I'll see you all again during the next Power Up Day next month with another update! Till then, See you and WAGMI! 💎🙌🏻🦍💪🏻

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✨✨✨This Week's Events✨✨✨

_{Over at PIZZA DISCORD, there are always loads of planned Events lined up (and even impromptu ones). The events listed here are localized to my Time Zone GMT +8. For the absolute latest updates, please check in the Pizza Discord.}

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🎁🎁🎁Contests & Giveaways🎁🎁🎁

_{A lot of FREE prizes up for grabs at the moment too! Don't miss out! 🎁🎁🎁💰💰💰 What are you waiting for? It's all here in the PIZZA DISCORD.
🤑💰🍕Added Bonus of PIZZA Token🤑💰🍕
-I will use my staked 🍕PIZZA🍕 to share a slice of 🍕PIZZA🍕 with anyone in the comments who also FOLLOWS & REBLOGS my post in the interests of spreading the Word of Pizza.
-Just let me know if you've done that so I can easily keep track. 👍
-Any fellow 🍕PIZZA🍕 connoisseurs who !PIZZA me will also receive 🍕PIZZA🍕 back from me. 😊
🍕🎁💰 PIZZA has weekly giveaways of NFTs from Rising Star, Exode, Hash Kings, WOO, not to mention several different types tokens, including PIZZA itself of course, and Oneup, DEC, Starbits, Buds, Utopis, AND several Steam game keys with values of up to $60!!! There's seriously so many prizes up for grabs EVERY WEEK that I can't keep listing it all down 😜 so go check out our Discord channel under #pizza-giveaways 🍕🎁💰}

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_{PIZZA is an active gaming and creative arts crypto community on the HIVE blockchain. Popular games on HIVE like SPLINTERLANDS, RISING STAR, EXODE, HASHKINGS, WOO, BANG!DEFENSE have their own PIZZA communities here.}

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_{Don't miss out more events that are always being organised. Join the PIZZA DISCORD. Even if you aren't interested in the 💰🍕🎁GIVEAWAYS & AIRDROPS💰🍕🎁, there is a vibrant and friendly community there awaiting you.}

_{Here's to wishing everyone all the best for the upcoming week 🎉🍀.}

_{To any new players who wish to explore the world of Splinterlands, do feel free to sign up with my REFERRAL LINK😊.}