True, and there is a DHF for that, as well as devs who post updates which can be up-voted, and donations and such. To me, the biggest problem here is the lack of transparency ($30M in rewards last year huh - how much went to content?),
Assuming your numbers are accurate, it shouldn't have been hard to do a rough approximation from the data you have already generated (the data is quite transparent). Why didn't you figure out an approximate answer instead of just leaving the question hanging and generating undue doubt? Could it be because that this kind of questioning rhetoric is more effective at persuading the uninformed than the actual data?
I paid someone to run python stuff to get the data out, because this stuff isn't accessible to non-coders.
All that I had him focus on was the hbd.funder account - not the whole history of Hive or something.
The $30,000,000 in rewards I mentioned was simply pulled from multiple big names saying that in their New Year's posts.
Again, nice try at making it look like I did something sketchy or sneaky.
Your coder could have probably done the extra work in less than an hour. He still could. It's not the whole history of hive, it's just a matter of pulling the price of hive on that date for each reward and multiplying it by the amount.