Yea, that's wild. 100k. That's like my entire ambition for a career. House costs 80k.

When / if they change the power down to 4 weeks, it will cause a sharper peak / decline during the next bull run.

Looks like Orca level is worth 10k now.

None of that really matters to me. I've chosen a career path with limited investment capital at the moment. So, for me Steemit is more about earning SP over time.

Seems unrealistic though -- Like to ever reach Orca level without investing.

Like 8-12 years worth of posting. By that time there will probably have been another bubble and collapse, No telling what the platform will look like at that time.

What's the financial advantage of being an orca?

You just get more people following you, cause they want to be on your good side, so you can offer significant upvotes, and then in turn receive a higher percentage of curation values?