It's good to see that the power down will decrease significantly next week. Even if the powerdown still exceeds the powerup.

I agree. With the high powerdowns in the last 8 weeks, I'm even a little surprised that STEEM held up as well as it did against other cryptocurrencies, so I think the reduction in powerdowns is a good sign. Also, if I understand the price feed right, I believe that some SBD printing will resume in about 6 or 7 hours. With the clubs, maybe we'll even start seeing more powerup activity after that happens. (and maybe some other people will start experimenting with /promoted ;-).

My big question in this report is how to explain the 636K in completed powerdowns. Last week's post showed 556K pending. I get those numbers from steemdb.io, and they run from Sunday through Saturday when I post on Sunday, so no one should have been able to start new powerdowns in the relevant timeframe after I posted. I'm puzzled how 556K pending turned into 636K completed. I suppose I could've had a typo last week, but I'm usually pretty careful about that number.

Part of it is probably due to inflation in the conversion from VESTS to SP, but I don't think that's enough to account for the whole gap. Anyway, something to keep an eye on for next week.