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Eh yes, and once people are unwilling to power down the value of Steem spikes hard.

Oh yes. There are whales with bills in meatspace who'll be tempted to part with a chunk if the price climbs high enough, (which is great for flattening the distribution) but a lot of us are dug in pretty firm.
I'm not going anywhere :)

I know right? I'm pretty stoked just to have 1000 coins. Power down? No thanks. Maybe I'll move around some SBD just to show myself that I can but that's about it.

$3000 more than in your Facebook wallet ;)

Very good point @mattclarke.

All signs, no matter which angle taken, point to the exact end you refer to.

What airdrops are you referring to? I know VICE planned on doing one, then backed out. I only recently heard of one more but can't think of it right now...how many others have there been? Or are soon to be dropped?

100M tokens (20%) will be airdropped to Steemit users with 1:1 ratio to Steem Power until 100M tokens are claimed. This will cover about 50% of the total Steemit account.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemhunt/announcing-hunt-token-airdrops-for-steemians-smart-media-token-project

Gotcha, Steemhunt was the one I couldn't think of. Are there any more in the works that you know of?

None of which I'm aware. The immediate (at least short term) success of steemhunt will certainly encourage more such activity though.
It's a good time to hodl.