I saw this too somewhere. And there's me freaking out that I might not be able to buy a minnow ticket (being a minnow) at the increased price, when the initial 333 Euro would already be steep for me (that's why I didn't buy one yet, just don't have it! Powering down isn't going to help me much now either). And I had no clue that I was even 'allowed' to buy a plankton ticket....Yes, I was among the last 100 who bought their tickets in the last few days before Steemfest last year. But there was a very good reason for it: I just didn't have the funds to buy it earlier. And I'm sure a lot of those 100 were in the same boat.