The main effect of the [softfork 0.22.2](https://steempeak.com/steem/@softfork222/soft-fork-222) is to temporarily and reversibly freeze the stake of the following accounts:

* misterdelegation
* steem
* steemit
* steemit2
* steemitadmin

effectively preventing them to use the stake they hold for witness votes, but also for votes on posts or comments (and a few other transfer operations), as this has been promised to the community several times before the soft fork.

My friend @taskmaster4450 asked me the following question on one of my stats post:

> It would be interesting to see the MVest chart with the Steemit Inc stake removed since it is, presently, frozen.

And indeed, that's a very good question!

Here is the graph before removing those accounts (taken from my last [Steem statistics](https://steempeak.com/hive-133987/@arcange/steem-statistics-20200229-en)):

https://arcange.eu/steem-images/2020-02-29-LevelShares-EN.png
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And now the graph if we removed the Steem Power hold by the frozen accounts:

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZ9mUnmqV8FRUn6Nth5GNtnNQ2CwSbwmQnsLiWRw1HZ3q/image.png)

As you can see, there is a **major shift of power** toward the lower level users of the community.

This makes even more interesting the outcome of the discussions that will take place between the witness and Justin Sun/Steemit inc on the future of the stake that has been ninja-mined and on the use that will be made of it.

Perhaps we could finally see a true decentralization of our governance happens.

So many interesting times to come!

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