Thank you @thecryptofriend!
About the stats, we'll research again. Somebody else did the research I will ask them about the metric again to make sure.
Thank you for your always insightful comments. All of them seem to add value, every time. Impressive.
Thank you. That is very kind of you to say. I may just be misremembering the figure. I don't think it really matters that much if it is 35000 or 10000 because it is still too many for all the whales to keep track of and assuming Steemit continues to grow and word spreads it will get bigger so the problem remains the same. It would be a nice indication of interest if there had been a recent surge though:)
I know, a big surge will be amazing!