Yes, there are a good way to "use" your steempower.
Vote vote vote!
The more Steempower you have, the more value you make for yourself and the people you are voting for.
Steempower have some benefits for you, here comes some examples:

If you go into this site, you will see a lot of parameters that will give you some answers for the use of Steempower.
One example; hit the small calculator up in the left of the window. Here you can put inn different parameters and see how much voting power you have.
Stemmpower gives you revenue, and it increases for every steempower you get.
Steempower is the safest place to keep you value, because of the 13 weeks power down.
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