Steemwhales.com is a great site to get high level view of key steemit statistics. Nicely sortable for every statistic that is presented.
Steemwhales lets you see where/how you fit into the world in general, when "world" means steemit.com in this context.
Humans are social creatures, interested not just in what is happening to themselves, but what is going on with friends and peers. What is going on with folks you would like to emulate and one day become? What are the whales doing? What are the high reputation steemians doing?
One curious anomaly I noticed when looking at steemwhales just now, was from a sort on Reputation.
13 of top 25, and then 24 of top 50, and then 45 of top 100 Steemians by Reputation, are currently in power down mode.
Roughly 50% of the highest Reputation steemians are in power down mode at the same time. Seems like a high percentage and in some way a type of vote of non-confidence perhaps?
You can sort by all the other statistics from steemwhales and there doesn't appear to be as high a percentage in power down when sorting by any statistic other than Reputation. Not when sorting by Steem Power, not when sorting by Estimated Value, etc.
Positive news is we aren't seeing a huge amount of Powering Down by the whales that have the big Estimated Value metrics.
So power down is not because whales are looking for an escape hatch, and planning to take all their money and run.
Power down seems to be focused among the folks that have worked the hardest and worked the longest to get the highest Reputations. Burned out perhaps? Time to move to new opportunities perhaps? Getting ready to take their STEEM and put it back into Bitcoin after August 1st, to participate in another big up leg for BTC?
Please don't understand my questioning.
Everyone has the right to power down whenever they want. And everyone has the right to take their money off this platform, or add more money onto this platform, whenever they want.
I was just curious on why so many High Reputation steemians are in power down mode at this moment? Does it mean anything? Or just a statistical quirk that will sort itself out in a few days?
Interested in hearing your thoughts in this topic.
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STEEM On!
Dave B
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