Always insightful @cmplxty! I agree this is a natural progression and it gives the platform the ability to purge itself users who were in it only for financial reward. In the long term the ones who stuck around, found value in creating content and build relationships will become the next Orcas and Whales and help encourage what kind of content and user behaviour gets rewarded on the platform. There is still so much STEEM locked up and so much to be printed/mined we're only in the beginning stages now. We will need this STEEM spread around and create more influential accounts with their own voice and aspirations for and on the platform and thats what i'm hoping I can become one day