As reported, steemit transfered 5,000,000 Steem Power to @misterdelegation yesterday.
This is a very interesting development, and like others I've been speculating about what it means.
It's curious that according to steemd (thanks for pointing this out), it was created using the anonymous account service 'anonsteem', steemit isn't the owner account, but has the active key (so can control most aspects of the account). One might speculate that on the back on Ned's successful delegation experiment, Steemit has decided to sell some SP to an investor (and run the account for them) in return for an income stream. If so, it'll be interesting to see who gets the delegation this time.
Alternatively, could this be preparation for the long awaited communities? Perhaps each community leader will receive delegation from this account, which they can use to shape their community. This seems to tie in with the announcement by of the Upcoming: Hive DB. This is a database which will 'contain data needed for the upcoming communities', and which looks likely to finish synchronizing with the blockchain in the next few days.
But does anybody have any better ideas?