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It gets increased each day by a certain amount around 48k STEEM. The system generates it.

Hello @anaman everyday there is around 45,000 to 50,000 Steem created by steemit automatically by the program and a percentage of that goes into the rewards pool to pay Authors and Curators . So the pool has Steem going into and out of the pool everyday.

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