Hive account@venuspcs (imho) new acccounts are created with the Hive account@steemit account. 4,818,859.891 STEEM. And yes whales are powering down and selling.Hive account@ned etc. has sold steem and some miners have garnerd steem from the beginning. And are currently selling at a profit. In the end this acts would only spread steem to other accounts. and in the end they only have so much vests. 104 payments later and selling of this steem would stop. Also remember steem is a high inflation token. Right now I'm buying Steem. I know in the long hall having abnormaly big accounts like @Dan and Hive account@ned is outright unneeded. And they know this. Hence the power down and sales of seem