In the Smart Media Tokens (SMTs) Collaboration and Discussions Group on Telegram which you can join herespeculations to the reason he is powering down. Some say it may be to avoid speculation anytime he powers down or sells to do something, others are of the opinion he is powering down to finance the SMT project., @ned stated that he is not leaving steemit. Sure enough, there are
I guess time will tell
That's true.