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I was doing some work with dividends data and found something interesting, for the past 4 months or so, the average dividend per coin is in a range from $980 to $1,010, furthermore, the sum of total dividends is in a range from $57k to $62k (excluding 2 data points, more on that next).

This leads me to believe that the dividends are taken from a fixed pool of money rather than be "generated" each week, a conclusion which is further supported by the dividend data from JP6's debut. The week before dividends encountered a rise, new total was $65k and dividend per coins was $1150 (highest in the data I have), likewise, the week that JP6 IPO happened dividends suffered a crash, total of $46k and $840 per coin.

The previous is likely a result of the devs changing the total dividend pool after JP6 announcement but not having the IPO out in time so every coin got a bump in divs, or, there were some dividends before the first stream meaning they would've given pretty much no divs, on the same line of reasoning, the low dividends happened when streams already happened, so they were "stealing" weekly views (which seems to be the most important metric for dividends) from the pool and caused a dive since they did not pay that week.

On an unrelated note, at the start of January, the total closing price (TCP) was at around $878k, meaning you could spend that amount of money per cycle, today, the TCP is at around $1M. So in 1 month and 3 weeks the market has "grown" by around $120k, interesting isn't it? No wonder dividends ROI% keep getting worse, the prices keep going up! Where do you think those $120k have gone to? It's obviously not spread across all coins equally, I'm partial to HOLO$ although you already knew that hehe , GURA$ and AQUA$ these coins feel like they've done nothing but go up ever since the adjustment cap was removed.

>What does this all mean
Well, the first part about dividends may be useful to keep in mind when making plays and thinking about strategies! Knowing that there is a cap to them should make planning for the long term easier.
The note about the market is just something intriguing that I found, if Google didn't lie to me, and the inflation formula is as easy as it says, you could say that the market has had an inflation rate of 13.8% !! Is that good? Is that bad? Honestly I don't know, I don't have experience in this topic and frankly I do not know why I am trying to work with numbers deep into a Saturday night alone... , but if I find anything that makes sense I promise to share it!