I've just tried powering up 54.814 STEEM. The wheel is still spinning for the past 5 minutes at least. If I login to steemitwallet on another page, I can see my steem power balance 2245.710 is still the same, but the steem of 54.814 that was supposed to be powered up is now showing a balance of 0.01. So, I would say that something is definitely wrong. It seems like I just lost 54 steem and have a wheel just spinning in another window under the "convert to steem power" screen just stuck spinning. Its probably been about 10 minutes since I started writing this while this power up was supposed to happen.
I don't like what I see. This makes me feel like I should be powering down. What is wrong with the power up process? It used to take 1 or 2 seconds at most.
Actually, now that I am reading about this more. I logged into steemit wallet using my posting key and it let me start the power up process and now it is just hung, but it took the 54.814 steem. Apparently, I am supposed to have used my private active key? Maybe this is why it is hung, but the page says that if someone uses the posting key, there is no risk of losing tokens, but apparently, I've been able to do a power up and lose my own tokens. I don't know what to do.
EDIT: The wheel finally stopped spinning and froze. I closed the window and the 54 steem is just gone, the steem power balance didn't go up, and there is no transaction in the history to prove where the 54 steem even went. This is not good.
EDIT AGAIN: Now there is a transaction in the history saying 24 minutes ago Transfer 54.814 STEEM POWER to inspire1 - but the steem power balance is unchanged, something is really wrong.