thanx for the info from this newbie :)

excellent

i did not know that you get the steem in installments?

yes, the greater freedom of choice, the better the experience!

Brilliant write up. Thanks!

good news!!!

This actually makes sense @dragosroua. We should be able to get only certain amount that we need, which as you said shouldn't be more than 1/13th of allowed power down.

The idea is very good! In less than 10 hours I'll have first power down. And I think it will be more useful to set: I want  to power down 100 steems and after first week to receive 1/13 of my Steem and in second week to receive the difference (around 30 steems).

Agree no more. The powerdown process should be dependent on 1)how much steem power you have 2) how much you are powering down. 3) limit. I think for a certain limit, one should be allow to power down in much shorter time and if it does not represent something like 10 % of total power. This is basically same when u power down whole week 1/13 and you will get back about 8% in one week, but people may wonder why the whale power down everything.

the whole powering-down process was unclear to me, your post gave me a good idea how this actually works... so thanks for that free primer.

aside from that I totally agree, I personally doubt I would *ever* want to fully power down unless I decided to leave steemit for good!

Being able to do a "single-power-down" instead of a "full-power-down" makes absolute sense to me!

I forgot to mention. I see Steem power as a share to that virtual company 'steemit'. In real life if I wanna sold shares from a company I can easily decide how many shares I can sold. In this case I'm forced to sell minimum 1/13.

When I ever reach a significant amount of Steempower and wish to power down, I would probably only want to withdraw a small amount. More likely I would just stop converting SBD to Steempower and just use the SBD to trade whatever I want.

Thanks for sharing and opening the issue. Following!

Yeah i agree it should be more flexible and with the caveat you mentioned about 1/13. A percentage option below the threshold would be much better and help with bloat although i know it handles transactions well above current requirements. 
Will transaction bloat be a factor in the future ?

Yeah. Why the hell only power down all the SP?

Lets say I have 10K SP and want a new computer and get 1000SP out. 

Now I would have to power down (all), then stop it after 2 weeks and power up again?!? bloody stupid. 

I would even be ok with the 13 weeks, but not being able to choose the amount you want?

Interesting situation.. I was in a similar situation where I only wanted access to a specific portion of my SP.. ya you can power down for one or two weeks but thats not the point..  Its also psychologically easy to keep powering down (especially if you take a little tolerance break).

  People are renting out their SP now for cash - I think that development has made the "lock in" moot.. why not change it to 3 days like the savings account - people who hold Steem off platform might be enticed to lock it in somewhere secure assuming they can get it back in a reasonable time frame.  Renting SteemPower has changed the game imo.  If you were a company wanting influence - why lock money up for 3 months when someone will rent it to you for a fee?

It's a good idea.

I was thinking about something like, once a month  you can take out 1/26th of your total SP instantly and if you were going to do a real power down immediately after then it would add 3 1/2 days to 7 days you receive the first payment.
I do agree that most people get in to situation where they need a small amount  and not looking to power down the hole amount but need the money fast. I think something like this would solve that.

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