Dormant whales

Today I came across an interesting post by @magicmonk, where he also presents the TOP 500 steemians by SP.
https://steemit.com/statistics/@magicmonk/2019-01-07-steemit-sp-ranking

What catches my eye, was that many whales have exactly the same effective and "own" SP. So what? Holding 1 or 2 mln SP, and do not delegate? Nor giving any other use to this huge SP?
I checked deeper several of those whale accounts, and soon noticed that they not only stay away from delegation, they do not post, do not upvote, do not follow anyone. Naturally, they do not hold any delegations from other either. They just sleeping, keeping dormant.

One moment I even thought perhaps some of those accounts been lost. But hey, do we still have that unique possibility here to recover lost account?
After some more digging, I've put my data in excel, trying to compare, who they are, and why it is such a behavior.
Very soon I discovered that they have a lot in common. Most of them are created at the very beginning of steemit, in March 2016. With fancy two or three digit ID's :)
Mots of them never post, never comment, never vote, nor follow anybody. They just SLEEP. Well, the good thing is - they even do not power down . They just ...DO NOTHING. Is this not strange? To me, honestly, it was.

Here is my collected data in one table. The top rich whales, who just do not care at all about SP delegations.

I put @ned and @dan at the very end just for comparison, as I hear so often now @ned been blamed for his power-downs. As you see, not all whales power-down. Imagine how the price could drop, if they all start selling.

As picture maybe is not always the best format for copy or share, I also put the same data in two small HTML tables. Maybe it can be of some use to somebody.

# in Top500	Acct	Effective SP	Own SP	Acct created	ID	Power DWN
1	@steemit	34,755,731	44,810,768	2016-03-24	28	YES
2	@steem	16,282,397	11,336,429	2016-03-24	23	No
8	@mottler	2,297,781	2,297,781	2016-03-24	102	No
14	@databass	1,741,875	1,741,875	2016-09-23	95915	No
17	@jamesc	1,598,101	1,598,101	2016-03-31	498	No
21	@michael-b	1,534,935	1,534,935	2016-03-31	493	No
32	@proskynneo	937,370	1,046,859	2016-03-30	464	No
34	@val-b	819,807	819,807	2016-03-31	495	No
42	@batel	652,150	652,150	2016-03-24	134	No
50	@bob	536,326	536,326	2016-03-25	241	No
75	@alvaro	346,617	346,617	2016-03-27	367	No
90	@fminerten	263,571	263,571	2016-03-24	115	No
82	@ned	288,596	288,571	2016-03-31	497	YES
??	@dan	29,278	29,277	2016-03-31	496	YES

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And the second part now:

#	Acct	Posts	Comments	Following	Votes	Last post
1	@steemit	1	0	0	0	2016-03-30
2	@steem	0	0	0	0	Never
8	@mottler	0	0	0	0	Never
14	@databass	0	0	0	0	Never
17	@jamesc	9	691	257	4316	2018-11-09
21	@michael-b	0	0	0	8178	Never
32	@proskynneo	6	94	32	4758	2017-04-12
34	@val-b	0	10	0	13772	2017-03-03
42	@batel	0	0	0	0	Never
50	@bob	0	0	0	0	Never
75	@alvaro	0	0	0	0	Never
90	@fminerten	0	0	1	31423	Never
82	@ned	96	918	929	20339	2019-01-04
??	@dan	45	500	3	1802	2018-09-15

BTW, if you some free time, it may be interesting to go and check their wallet section on steemit.com. To see how some voting bot holders, and even witnesses are poking some of these whales.


(hey, wake up, do something, gain rewards, delegate, invest ! )

I found it quite entertaining and funny.

I wonder what others think of all this. Is this bad for our ecosystem?
Or we should be happy about such creatures in our community?

@onealfa