I last reported the numbers in a post that covered through February 28, 2019.

https://busy.org/@taskmaster4450/steem-whales-are-losing-their-power-the-system-is-not-broken-report-through-3-31-19

Each month I monitor what is going on with new accounts and the amount of MVests in each category. I do this to determine what trends are taking place.

Now that we are at end of month, time to post the numbers again.

I want to thank @arcange for the work done each day compiling these numbers and making the charts.

We have 3 months worth of data for analysis purposes to see how the 90 trend might be.

The first chart is from August of 2017, the month I started on Steem. It is placed here to provide some contrast to see how things are changing over a longer period of time.

Here is the breakdown.

8/1/2017

![image.png](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmTqYQggdMfyUA5sSb9yvbbwFsx57etKXAJ4J2vrPnspfF)

The total MVests here is 336,932.

On a percentage basis:

Whales 75.44%
Orcas 14.86%
Dolphins 7.16%
Minnows 2.14%
Red Fish .01%
Inactive .40%

2/28/2019

![image.png](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmWpzSDB1uRSrek6EU8nE3LnkGwW1hJUsNbaEdfXdDGYvH)

The total MVests here is 400,015.

On a percentage basis:

Whales 55.17%
Orcas 22.25%
Dolphins 13.30%
Minnows 6.82%
Red Fish 1.06%
Inactive 2.40%

The change over that time period is as such:

Whales -2.96%
Orcas +7.02%
Dolphins +.07%
Minnows +2.25%
Red Fish -1.85%
Inactive +2.56%

3/31/2019

![image.png](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmXVnLTGrNmRACec6tiv4DUrTYKd37v4enuRAUKh3L1F3v)


The total MVests here is 396,322.

On a percentage basis:

Whales 53.36%
Orcas 22.58%
Dolphins 13.56%
Minnows 7.00%
Red Fish 1.06%
Inactive 2.44%

The change over that time period is as such:



Whales -3.28%
Orcas +1.48%
Dolphins +1.95%
Minnows +2.64%
Red Fish 0%
Inactive +1.67%

4/30/2019

![image.png](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmY7u7XJxnnwrqEc6QWg17vAWMCRs3fDYUnM3hw2c4baSV)

The total MVests here is 393,784.

On a percentage basis:

Whales 53.16%
Orcas 22.11%
Dolphins 14.09%
Minnows 7.10%
Red Fish 1.05%
Inactive 2.48%

The change over that time period is as such:



Whales -.37%
Orcas -2.13%
Dolphins +3.91%
Minnows +1.42%
Red Fish -.94%
Inactive +2.48%

The latest charts can be found here.

https://steempeak.com/statistics/@arcange/steem-statistics-20190430-en

So what does this all tell us?

To start: The system is working as designed.

The Whales are losing power.

There are now 11,705 accounts who qualify as either Dolphin or Minnow. It was only a few months back when the total accounts above the approximate 500 SP (level to be a Minnow) was under 10K.

On February 28, 2019, the Whales and Orcas had 305,720 MVests (76.42% of the total).  On March 31, 2019, 300,984 MVests (75.94% of the total)...a decrease of .62%.  On April 30, 2019, 296,454 MVests (75.28% of the total)...a decrease of .87%.

This month we saw the Dolphins having the largest increase.  The Minnows also enjoyed a decent jump while the Whales and Orcas both lost power.  The Orcas saw a significant decrease after a number of months of moving higher.

One thing to note this month is how the Whale/Orca combined MVests dropped below 300,000.  This is something we have not seen in a long while.  They combined power is about to move below 75%, still a large amount of control but a big change over the past year and a half when those two categories controlled 90% of all the MVests.