Steem, may turn around, (yeah I know not likely). One thing with shutting down is how will it effect peoples perception of peakd? will peakd one day also just be shut down? A lot of time and effort went into the development of the project, Have you thought about advertising it for sale?
The number of front ends may be getting smaller on steem block chain, so someone may want to keep it active alive, and continue to develop it as an alternative to steemit's front end.
I know selling it could be an issue if you have proprietary code you do not want some other company to gain access to, but if it is all basic code, then maybe test the waters for a sale. The purchaser, could always re-brand the code and release it with a different name, if that was done part of the sell could include the dismantling of steampeak by them on steem block chain.
I started my power down and was supposed to be done last week, but some how or another 500 steem was left so now I started another power down..
Same here. I suspect some fuckery from Sun. Seemed to happen about the time of their hardfork.