how long did the era of 10K+ rewards last? If noticed when I joined I perfectly remember the make up girl getting over $45,000 in upvotes....crazy... that was back when "top comment" was an option before "Promoted" even existed ....

I believe the rewards were so high due to the race to upvote for maximum curation...I don't remember the process exactly but I remember you were incentives hard to upvote...

I invested around 1.6 bitcoins for around 300ish steem power.... back then it took 104 weeks (2 years) to power down and the rate of steem inflation was 250,000,000 steem a year...so my 300ish steem grew to over 700 steem where they then reduced that inflation rate until it reached what it is now.... after all this I wish I would of just kept the 1.6 bitcoins but oh well lol live and learn...