@timcliff Steem has good potential but I don't think the parameters need to be altered. I think they need to hire better UI/UX people, and start adding features. The new features are not coming in at a fast enough pace, and the kind of features which need to come in need to appeal to mainstream psychology. People want to stay in contact with their friends but there is no friends list? There is no groups? There is no private messages? There is no video casting? There is almost no social features which people really want?

So of course there is no demand for Steem Power. Why buy Steem Power when you don't have anything to have power over? Why be a king or super hero in an empty virtual world?

@snowflake and @ned is a whale, the biggest whale, yet he is the guy who has the idea to let people reduce the inflation rate? And what if him and the other whales do that, and also get rid of the 2 year waiting period, and then just dump all their coins?

Their interest to dump may be related to the fact that they have the most to gain by immediately dumping. People who actually bought their way in or worked their way up, might not be so quick to dump because they have more to lose psychologically.

This isn't to say @ned will dump, but he is powering down, and he is the founder. So if he is powering down, it is like Steve Jobs selling his stocks.

So why would anyone value Steem Power if the founders want to power down?