Firstly, another great post.

A couple of points on the above:

1. On the approval process, have also read here (https://www.reddit.com/r/steemit/comments/6g7pma/steemit_verification/) that some people are having problems. I tried to register a second account for my business with the same phone number and it didn't work, perhaps it was auto-blocked as a spam account after seeing a duplicate number.

2. Are the payout graphs in 8 showing values in STEEM or USD? I assumed that there would be a fixed number of STEEM paid out every day, split by the weighted total of up-votes?