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RE: If STEEM Reaches even 25% of Reddit's Market Valuation...
Are you sure the numbers are incorrect? I went off Bytemaster's statement that if 99% of the STEEM remains locked away (protected from inflation), inflation would not go far above 10%.
And it is also true that when someone holds their steem as steempower when the % of steem locked away is under 90%, they receive even higher "protection" to the degree that they actually earn a sort of "interest"...which would mean that from the perspective of a current steempower holder, they would end up with more than the equivalent amount.
He meant that in terms of unprotected inflation for SP holders.
Yes
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And what do you mean by "unprotected inflation"? Do you mean that when almost all steem is tied up in sp, sp holders are diluted precisely because the market is considered too saturated and people need to be incentivized to keep some steem liquid?
Oh annd btw, you never answered the questions in the main post smooth ;)
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By "unprotected inflation" I mean the extent to which SP's share of the total supply is diluted by new supply. So if >90% is locked up the SP holders experience inflation with respect to their share of the total. If <90% is locked up, the SP gain what is effectively "interest" as you said earlier.
The maximum inflationary dilution that SP holders can experience (if >99% locked up) is about 10%.
All this talk of inflation distracts from the main point you made in your post which is that the total value can certainly increase dramatically. I don't really have an opinion on how likely that is. I will say that valuation of blockchain-based system is somewhat different from a centralized web-based system, even if the two do the same thing, since the latter derives largely from advertising (or in some cases direct revenue) and the former does not.