I posted this question to Hive account@blocktrades post as well, but I doubt its getting longer and longer, and I may not get an answer. So can you answer ?

So holding the steem for now is going to help us as well as the community ? The reason I am asking is that I was powering down, after all this started. But then I powered them up to support the witness voting. If the price of steem is going to dump, then will we not also loose there ? I understand the equivalent air drop of the new coin will help, but how retaining the old steem will balance that ? Because we bought them. And based on the read, I think, its not wise to buy more now ?

And to add to the above, may be we should power down now to have them in liquids so that we can sell and get something ?