I'll confess to not understanding all the economic aspects of Steem. I think they had a higher interest rate initially, but 1.5% is not really much better than nothing. I guess it's not much of an incentive to hold SP, but there are other reasons to do so. I want to see them use their funds efficiently and perhaps this needs to be revised.
I have other concerns about how they are delegating SP to new users. It's done via the @steem account, but that has run out of spare SP at times. What happens if 50000 people suddenly join up? Can they keep funding that?
I'm guessing once your steem goes up to a certain amount it automatically is retracted, or if you're inactive for a while.
I don't think it's in danger of running out anytime soon
I hope not, but that account has run out a few times and caused new sign-ups to fail with a cryptic error message. That's not a good introduction to Steemit.
oh it's not about running out of funds, just other technical reasons i think
They have the funds on other accounts. Just need to ensure they are available when required. We want a good experience for new users.