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I am so fascinated by numbers and statistics. Quite often they are misleading and someone could easily make false assumptions just by looking at charts and numbers only. It happens really often is sports. A team might be dominating the whole game, yet not manage to claim the victory.

But numbers and charts don't lie when it comes to Steem.

I was looking at @penguinpablo's latest weekly report and I have to admit that news are definitely positive regarding our beloved Steem. So let's look at some numbers to see for yourselves why I have a positive feeling that things will keep getting better and better over time...

This is the the current Steem supply.

And this is the total vesting from every single account on the chain.

So 326,321,185.017 - 204,481,248.374 = 121,839,936.643 liquid Steem hanging around in wallets and on the exchanges. The numbers are slightly different on the images I am gonna show you since @penguinpablo made the post some 5 hours ago)

So, according to the stats he found, ~ 95 million Steem tokens are on the exchanges, while the remaining ~ 27 million are in our Steemit wallets, just not powered up. What's more interesting though, is that the number of "liquid" Steem tokens on the exchanges, is going down the last few weeks. Probably due to the HF 21 effect...Almost a month ago the liquid steem on the exchanges was almost 115 million tokens.

Data are for the past week only. Image credited to @penguinpablo

As you can see in the screenshot above, people keep withdrawing their Steem holdings from the exchanges to bring them in and power up. increased curation rewards are great aren't they? And if we exclude the 10 million Steem that are trapped in Bithumb for many months now the result is ~ 85 million Steem waiting to be bought / traded.

I know that I have some crazy ideas over time and you might think that what I am about to write is more likely a utopia, still I am gonna say/write it. At the moment of writing there are only 1.322.972 unique accounts registered.

What would it take USD / Euro wise to buy lets say 50 out of the 85 million tokens from the exchanges and power them up? It would simply take : 50,000,000 / 1.322.972 = 37,8 Steem. You know how much 37,8 Steem worth? 4.91 $

4.91$

I know that some of you , included myself have multiple accounts. Still...we are talking about an amount that 95%+ of the users can afford to spend. And while some have already bought their fair share more than once, still it would push steem forward. And just like that more than half of the current liquid supply would be gone. How cool would that be? I am sure you can live with a cappuccino less this week...

If not, check @soyrosa's post in which she asks people what can you buy with 10$ in their county...

And then let my idea sink in...

This is actually what 10 Euro buys you...96 Steem.

I did it not only to take part in this initiative but more likely because it has turned out to be my daily addiction as well.

So what if...

Ok let it sink in again...

Have a great one people!

Cheers.