Steemit, Inc. were selling 800k STEEM a month. When they stopped selling, it made no difference whatsoever to the price.

DAO fund is paying 4660 1600 HBD/day and at current prices, this is 1,399,050 480,000 HIVE per month. We are paying almost 2x more for development than when we had Steemit Inc

Edit: I made an error while calculating how much funds are paid from DAO. The correct number is ~1600 HBD/day.