As someone in favor of the comment reward pool I would appreciate a source of this claim:
Well, it's not really a "claim." It's more like a rhetorical jab. I've been known to make those without warning.
Does it make it a 38% cut of curation rewards though?
Based on the wording of the proposal, the 38% comment pool will come from the allocated rewards for current posting and curating. This leaves us with the 75/25 split between posting and curating which is drawn from the remaining 62% of the pool. So, the rewards would be:
46.5% for blog posts
38% for comments
15.5% for curation
The 15.5% is a 38% reduction from the current 25% of curation rewards. But keep in mind these two points:
- There will be no curation rewards for comments.
- The current curation payout is actually ~12%, not 25%, due to the reverse auction.
So, curation rewards will likely be reduced even more than the 38%. That will likely give curators much less than 7.5% of the total rewards pool. This is a very troubling figure for those who invest into STEEM Power. Without a need for holding STEEM in the form of SP for rewards, there's no reason to purchase and hold STEEM. This will likely negatively affect STEEM prices.