3 Questions about Scorum for the community

I arrived here on Scorum back in early September with my 5SCR in my back pocket. I was still active on Steemit at the time, and for a while I tried to keep both fires burning, as I had encountered some really great people and projects on Steemit. As time went by, less and less of my time was invetsed in Steemit, and more and more of my time was spent here on these pages reading, commenting, curating, engaging, learning and publishing.

I've grown to love Scorum and I look forward to finding the time each day to check in on some friends and I try to always find the time to find some new users that I've never heard of before, especially newbies and interact with them. We were all there one day, and I remember in early September, any upvote at all was met with a broad smile on my side of the keyboard. So, I like to repay the favour, after all the power of Scorum will come as more people join and engage with the platform. As such, we must remember to water the accounts of these new users and help them to flourish.

We are lucky on this platform to have guys like @pete, @talesfrmthecrypt, @liuke96player, @sport-frei, @nfl, @philnewton, @battleaxe and many others, some of whom run great interactive initiatives to encourage people to write posts and others who keep a close eye on things happening on Scorum or related to Scorum which could harm us all in the long run. Those are just some users of the top of my head that do great things around here, but there are many more, and Scorum has that family feel about it, similar to what you get in a small business, where everybody knows everybody. Hopefully we can retain this level of care and cohesion as the platform grows, and grow it will. I can see Scorum being a huge success when the grey skies hovering over Crypto finally clear, and the sun comes out again. The platform has huge potential and the more sports stars and journalists we can start to attract towards the platform, the quicker that success will come.

What a time to start

One of the most impressive thing about the Scorum project for me is the time that it started. We were in the midst of a massive Crypto Bear market, and are still right in the eye of this storm, yet Scorum has continued to prosper. Yes, the coin price has dropped off since the launch, but it has stayed fairly constantly in the €0.09 to €0.11 bracket now for a good two months. As we are speaking, it is riding out the storm. There is uncertainty all around us. From Trump's presidency in the United States to the clusterfuck that is Brexit, and everything in between. Mr. Market doesn't know if he is coming or going these days, and shares, crypto and most investment vehicles have taken a hammering. But guess what? Scorum is still ticking along nicely, bobbing in the sea of uncertainty and turmoil. They say in business that if you can ride out a recession or even start a business in tough belt-tightening times, then when things turn green again, your business well prosper. Well, that is exactly how I see Scorum right now. We are biding our time. What we must do though is keep the quality of posts high and not tolerate shit-posting, like we have seen elsewhere in the past. Quality above quantity every time.

 

Here at Scorum, we are no longer an acorn. I would say that we are somewhere between a seedling and a sapling. There is so much potential growth to come. Yes, there are windy conditions which can damage our sapling and right now we are in a storm. We the community are like the bambo stick along side the sapling. We re-enforce it and keep it strong, so that when the storm passes and the wind abates or beautiful sapling can grow and grow and grow.

Now some of you are thinking now, not a bad analogy @ablaze and yes it is important to help the new users and to protect our community, but your title mentions some questions. Indeed, it does, and I was just getting to that.

My Questions to the community

Question 1

Yet if I make my way over to another popular Crypto site https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/scorum/eur they mention an available supply of 8,995,936 / 6,028,553.

That is a little confusing to me. Which figure is correct here?

Question 2

At the moment people are writing and publishing articles and at the end of the 7 day period they make some SP and so too do the curators. And so it continues day after day, week after week.

I am wondering what happens when eventually there is no more SP to assign, because Scorum has a fixed amount of coins. Will we reach a time when the pot is empty and we have no liquidity to pay people to publish their work, as well as to pay the curators, witnesses and support staff?

This may well be a stupid question, and sorry if that is the case. I'm sure there is some logical explanation, whereby the rate of payment to users slows down, and it continues to slow down incrementally as we near the end of the pot. It would be great to know what this mechanism is and how it works. I had a quick skim over the Scorum Whitepaper, and I didn't see an answer to this question.

Question 3

Is there a website or source of information where I can access information like the following:

• How many users are on Scorum?
• How many active users are on Scorum?
• How much SCR is distributed daily.
• How much SCR remains to be distributed before the pot is empty?

Thanks for taking to the time to read.

I look forward to some comments below from those in the know.

Thanks and Peace Out.