I just started a Power Down; I am starting from the position of 6,811.818 Steem Power. I am holding onto my 44 SBD in the meantime, as a hedge against a crash in Steem value; Also, I have about 107 in incoming rewards at the moment, according to SteemViz

Let me see; IIRC, I was at about halfway to dolphin status, with an account value circa $400, when I took some money ($400 from selling a WOW account and some GRC mining) and bought the rest of the way up; so I hit dolphin at $800 account. So the experiment has to account for that as well.

This isn't a real, scientific experiment, but I do want to see some things:

• How fast can I return to an equitable balance (including re-investing, if necessary)
• Can I, in fact, write myself back into the game
• How long the price holds, or maybe increases
• The lowered effects on curating
• Whether I can live in the fast lane (for me) for three months

Source

Now there is a definite downside here:

• I feel good upvoting and seeing an eight or nine cent increase on someone's post; I know that is peanuts compared to the potential that some whales and orcas have, but it did make me feel like I was contributing to the platform in more ways than writing
• Yes, I will tear out my hair if Steem shoots up exponentially, which I think is a likely possibility ;> But sometimes, you just gotta say WTF

Hopefully, as I go through this, I can share my experience with y'all. But I hesitate to label this as a learning experiment.

Here's why:

A boy is given a horse on his 14th birthday. Everyone in the village says, “Oh how wonderful.” But a Zen master who lives in the village says, “We'll see.” 'The boy falls off the horse and breaks his foot. Everyone in the village says, “Oh how awful.” The Zen master says, “We'll see.” The village is thrown into war and all the young men have to go to war. But, because of the broken foot, the boy stays behind. Everyone says, “Oh, how wonderful.” The Zen master says, “We'll see.”

You never know what is coming down the road. Unless a choice is clear cut when you make it, there is no point questioning it if other events change the outcome!