For anyone who is here for the long run i recommend transferring your steem dollars to steem instead of bitcoin. Price of steem is quite low at this time, around 0.0036. Price is still going down but that has to stop sooner or later, once you see trend reversal in the charts it is a good time to buy. With that fresh new steem It is a great time to power up (you will get more steem for steem dollars than you could get 10 days ago) With the potential of this platform price of steem will probably go up later in the year and we will never be able to buy at this price ranges. With more steem power you get more voting power, more interest rate, in essence it is a win win situation. All this is based upon a fact that steemit is revolutional. I would also recommend that whales stop powering down and keep the price up, but i also understand their point of view, with that much money invested they can power down for few weeks to take some profit, break the price and allow others to get in cheaper while they still can. Everything is connected here. Whales do what whales must.I also want to state to everyone to invest wisely, don't go sellin your house and your wife to buy steem, invest some percentage of your savings and you will do just fine.