Interesting scenario but the problem is there really isn't enough steem for sale for a hedge fund to do that. Plus, if steem went up to $7 a lot folks would sell and be happy @earthnation. You might be right though. Still one thing about the influence if people like me with a 14.4k modem half the time have a hard time voting on many posts. There are a lot of people like this throughout the world and on Steemit. They are excellent posters, trying make money and build Steemit with excellent quality posts but...influence?