Last night our witness 
That's the beauty of our app Steemify. You can add as many accounts as you like and get notified about anything regarding those accounts.
Notifications about power down is one of them. I use them as an extra security feature (besides account changes) on all my accounts.
We all also have added Ned because as a witness (we are 4 people) we are interested in what he has to say on the blockchain and we like to be notified about it as soon as possible.
So this happened last night:
The first instinct is panic! Why? WTF? What's going on...(that sort of stuff).
Perfectly normal first reaction, maybe he got hacked?
That was clearly not the case.
We were talking about it and being a long time member I remembered that it wasn't the first time this happened.
Many accounts have powered down over the years.
So I did some digging.
I found this picture of an article I wrote on 17 March 2017 here.
It's a screenshot from Steemwhales (no longer works).
You will see many familiar names on that list.
It's clear to see that many accounts used to have more SP back then than they have now.
Yet they are all still here.
Maybe they sold their SP for other crypto or fiat, maybe they spread it out over multiple accounts and used it for different purposes.
In the end it's non of my business really, so who cares?
What I do care about is the rest of the article.
I am so happy in that article because STEEM just doubled overnight.
The 40k Steem power I had back then doubled from $5000 to $10,000.
This was before I knew what the future had in store for crypto and I wrote in the article that I will probably be stuck on 40k forever.
I consider 10.000 dollars to be a lot and can't risk more money in the bank to add to this.
Yet here we are 15 months later.
All those accounts powered down in the past and yet the STEEM price is higher than I could have ever imagined back then.
Also the Steem blockchain is so much richer in development and apps then in the beginning of 2017.
In the end all those power downs didn't matter much.
When it comes to STEEM I would recommend you make your own decisions and build your own journey.
I'm glad I did.
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