interesting stats .... thanks for that but by the look of it 'over all time' i dont really see a reason to bring out the champagne yet. I read on aggroed's feed that steemit itself, the emperor of selloffs (bills and stuff and 4 years of not even trying to get secondary income ... or do they ? i dont know, i hear a lot about bring-a-friend-and-some-money and a lot about masses ... of which they dont seem to understand much but im not gonna repeat that rant here lol)
steemmonsters made a massive move adding , i think, might be off with the exact number 120000 SP to the account but they're a prime example of 'green' business ecology, actually getting income from outside and using the platform for business i think the way it was described was "steem is a business expense for us" :) ... praise be ...
It's in the hands of the whale ... in over two years now for me i have spent plenty of spare copper pieces on buying steem at the end of the month, and even if i powerdown constantly , that is to balance between accounts as most of them are utilities (best word i can find) for future use with applications and some just have to get me something to work with and HOPEFULLY something to power down as i had no intention from the start to be maecenas with my few guttertrash euros , not until i have a lot of guttertrash euros that is. BUT i have not taken out one promille steem or sbd OUT of the system yet ,
and i clearly havent gotten 100% back of what i put in (lmao) ...
i do hope the propaganda works but i fear as far as i see now, its a patch, not a solution. Instead of bringing in the masses to bring a fiver each, they need to bring in more steemonster-class titans and THOSE will bring the masses , i dont think it works the other way around, espeically not for something where you have to pay-to-post ... (steemit is too often confused with the chain it runs its DAPP on, probably primarily because half of them have developed or are in the active process of - the steemchain) but its nothing the primal and primar application running on the chain, its not the token itself ... i doubt everyone on the platform sees it how it is

anyways, thanks a lot @socky !!! class and fact as always :)