My main gripe is not with the proposal itself but with the premise behind it. It may be a valid avenue and we must explore it but we must keep the focus on the real reason for the decline in price. My opinion is very clear on the matter...we need organic demand and this has to come from the utillity of steem as a source of RC.

If we do not address this it doesn't matter if we reduce (or even remove) the powerdown period from the protocol. We will just be kicking the bucket a little further down the road.Unfortunately this is not something that can be achieved in a short timespan.