I last reported the numbers in a post that covered through April 30th, 2019.

https://busy.org/@taskmaster4450/steem-whales-are-losing-their-power-the-system-is-not-broken-report-through-4-30-19

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%

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%

5/31/2019

![image.png](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmcDaXzmByzgbhbLxeXDk8v8ZEeb9GCJc9eYn4WAbRZ4Pt)

The total MVests here is 395,372.

On a percentage basis:

Whales 52.54%
Orcas 22.57%
Dolphins 14.26%
Minnows 7.11%
Red Fish 3.52% (includes the inactive from before)

The change over that time period is as such:



Whales -.1.14%
Orcas +2.08%
Dolphins +1.21%
Minnows +.14%
Red Fish -.28%

6/30/19

https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://arcange.eu/steem-images/2019-06-30-LevelShares-EN.png

The total MVests here is 394,808.

On a percentage basis:

Whales 52.53%
Orcas 22.53%
Dolphins 14.29%
Minnows 7.11%
Red Fish 3.53% (includes the inactive from before)

The change over that time period is as such:



Whales -.02%
Orcas -.04%
Dolphins +.21%
Minnows +0.0%
Red Fish +.28%

https://steempeak.com/statistics/@arcange/steem-statistics-20190630-en

To start: The system is working as designed.

The Whales are losing power.

There are now 11,775 accounts who qualify as either Minnow or higher. 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 April, 2019, the Whales and Orcas had 296454 MVests (75.28% of the total).  On May 31, 2019, 296,976 (75.11% of the total)...a decrease of .23%.  On June 30, 2019, 296,352 MVests (75.06% of the total)...a decrease of .29%.

There was not a lot of movement this past month as you can see.  The Whales and Orcas were down slightly with the Dolphins and the Planktons inching up.  Minnows were flat this month.

It will be interesting to watch the changes when (if) Hard Fork 21 goes into effect.  Also, with so many other projects gaining interest that are delivering tokens, will this lead to an increase in activity from the smaller accounts, thus earning not only the Steem-Engine tokens, but also SP on the back end.  

This month did see the totals the Whales and Orcas are holding keep drifting lower.  We are getting closer to the 75% mark.  When I started, those two categories accounted for 90% of the total.

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