There are not 400k people on Steemit. Of all the accounts opened in 2016, ~11% remained active as of Nov. 2017. Around 500k accounts have been opened, and around 50k accounts remain active - including bots, and multiples.
Still, 39 whales is absolutely correct, and since they own all the Steem, they completely control the platform. They are the market which Stinc serves.
The rest of us are price supports.
Вы не учитывали golos.io - российскую вилку steemit. Точная та же платформа. You have not counted the users of golos.io- the russian fork of steemit. exact same page- mirror of steemit.
I confess I do not have the ability to reckon with Golos.
Is what you said, and what my answer responded to.
Its my opinion that this is an elaborate social experiment being conducted by the worlds Intelligence gathering agencies. Golos.io is an EXACT mirror of steemit.
Golos is an exact mirror of Steemit, with it's own users, and it's own rewards pool, all of which are completely separate from Steemit.
Steemit has somewhere between 20k and 50k actual users, presently, as far as I can tell.
It's practically impossible to separate actual people from bots, or multiple accounts.