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You get to hold the bag with the rest of us while whale power down begins. I mean look, at least the power down can happen faster due to the new code changes.

Yes it is always us smaller fish that lose out. Live and learn I suppose and this will be a valuable lesson. I will stick around even if nobody else does.

I'll be here with you. To quote the man I admire most in this world (my husband ;) "If just one person posts and one other comments, steemit is still alive". And from some of the posts I've read today, I think it's safe to say there will be many more than two of us.

You and me both...

Welcome to the new bagholder club.

Well we can choose to be bagholders resigned to failure or we can choose to move things forward.

kind of a different topic, I have no idea why my upvote strength is so different.
Today, my upvote is worth .35 but it usually is .........05. Any idea why?

Yes the whales (or at least most of them) have stopped voting as part of an experiment to give those lower down the food chain more influence. Has been a lot of controversy over it. My vote is now worth 16 cents!