Additionally, the platform also allow users to earn rewards by curating other people's content, this is done by upvoting posts and you can earn curation reward in return.

So we can say both creator as well curator are at advantage.

The Steemit platform makes it money by taking a small percentage of the payout rewards earned by users, and also the platform makes money through the Steemit Marketplace.

Actually it is about the process of minting that the question refers to . Minting of blocking is a continuous process that creates steem and add to reward pool.

Overall , great efforts .