They reduced the time from 2 years to 3 months to power down. Ben could have canceled his power down and reset it the the new new rules of 3 months. Well he definitely did well. I believe April of 2016 the price when it first started trading was under 5 cents. I know Steem was something like a 2 million market cap then b/c I remember it going to 20 million market cap in a few months and everyone thought it was a big deal.