So I just fell over this guy who explained about steem on youtube, he used weusecoins as the source of information. During this, he mentioned a wooping 100% inflation on steem. Unless I have something completely wrong, that could not be further from the truth. Since it should be at about 9.5% and should head over the next 20 years or so for 0.95% inflation rate.
Here is what weusecoins are (wrongly) saying
Steem is the fundamental unit of account on the Steem blockchain. All other units (Steem dollars and Steem power) derive their value from the value of Steem.
There is no need to hold on to Steem in its cryptocurrency form, it should be used either to buy Steem power, Steem dollars or be converted to Bitcoins.
Steem increases in supply 100% each year. Steem was first published as a whitepaper in March 2016.
The currency and platform were in Beta until July 4th 2016."
source: https://www.weusecoins.com/what-is-steem/
I would recommend anyone who is still in doubt to watch this video made by @dan-atstarlite where he nicely is explaining the steem inflation rate.
It really hurts to see so much misinformation going around, hopefully we can drown it out. I was even getting a bit nervous myself if it was real, but at least I already had the knowledge to decline this.
None the less it was a good reminder to always taking what you read with a grain of salt and make your own research.
To everyone out there, be careful with what you read on the internet, it might not always be true:)
-holm