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Hello, answered your question, when you do Power Up of your STEEM, each time you vote, your vote will have more value and you will be able to receive STEEM Power. Doing Power Up you can do it immediately if your account has enough. You can only do Power Up of your STEEM, so if you do not have STEEM but you have STEEM Dollars (SBD), you will have to convert your SBD to STEEM first and then do Power Up.

Power Down is when you decide to pass STEEM Power to STEEM to trade or sell them or buy STEEM Dollars (SBD). This will take 3 months and each week you will receive a quantity of STEEM, and this will continue until after 3 months.

You can cancel the Power Down when you want.

You must be careful because this may affect the reputation of your account.

To power up on steemit means to use steem which you've purchased or earned from posting to increase your steem power. If you want to increase your influence on steemit and that's more important to you than getting rewarded immediately and cashing out, then you can set all your payouts to 100%SP, that way, everything you earn will be in SP. Just about every whale on steemit powered up to get to where they are and if you want to become one then you should start powering up today.

To power down on steemit means to liquidate your steem power and receive it in steem. It takes about 13 weeks to complete a power down and you can power down all your steem power. You will receive 1/13 of what you're powering down every week and it will continue like that till you've completed the power down.

I hope this answers your question.

POWER up is basically purchases sp.

How to POWERDOWN STEEM POWER

Withdrawing STEEM POWER from your steemit.com account requires that you initiate a process called Power Down that begins to convert your STEEM POWER to STEEM tokens that you can transfer to other users or withdraw and sell. Before starting a Power Down your current STEEM POWER will start to be converted into 104 equal parts and each of them will be available to you in the form of STEEM, now only takes 12 weeks ..


The first portion of STEEM will be available in your wallet after exactly one week, then in another week you will get the second part of the 12 and so on with the process, which 3 months or 12 weeks to complete. At any time you can do Cancel Power Down from your purse just like you started it, but the advice is to stop it once you have received one of the 104 installments.