To be honest, I am shocked to see my current curation rewards for the past 7 days at only ~36 Steem, which is a huge difference from the usual ~150 Steem / week. As I've not been posting much and have dedicated my voting power for curation and supporting some authors, this certainly is starting not to look like an aligned incentive. So I did a rough calculation to see if there's really something wrong:-
- Total supply at the moment: ~260,000,000 Steem
- Current emission rate: ~9% / year = ~23,400,000 Steem / year
- Rewards for authors & curators: ~75% of emissions = ~84,000 Steem / day
- Total vested Steem: ~190,000,000 Steem Power
- My vested Steem: ~190,000 Steem Power
- Ratio of my stake: ~0.1% of network's total
- My ideal proportional earnings (author & curation rewards) = 0.1% of 84,000 Steem / day = 84 Steem / day = 588 Steem / week
- Expected curation rewards = 25% of 588 Steem / week = 147 Steem / week
- My current curation rewards = 36 Steem / week
So yes, my average curation rewards for the past year checks out at ~150 Steem / week. Something's wrong recently then seeing that it has gone down about 4.5 times. I don't mind not meeting my ideal proportional earnings from not posting often and just vote. However, this kind of curation reward for myself is just way too crappy at the moment. What's up?
Edit: Looks like it was just an error on Steemit's / Steemkr's interface.