I remember doing some research into what "Vests" are awhile back (the rewards paid out as SP are shown in vests on the esteem mobile app, which sparked my curiosity) and had to dig up a 9 month old post explaining what they are and how they relate to SP and Steem. I'm glad I hold most of what I invested here in the form of SP. I pretty much always convert my rewards from authoring and everything else into steem and then power it up because of the ever dropping number of vests you get for 1 Steem powered up.
I currently have something like 15 MV. Makes me feel like a baller lol.
Thanks for the informative post. Resteemed it so hopefully some of the newer people following me will see this and understand a bit better. This post is a great example of why you have a witness vote from me.