Yeah I just wouldn't really call it a limit cause I think it can scale pretty nicely. For instance due to the low unique authors at times like these ocd votes a bit extra on hbdstabilizer comments to ensure a stable hbd and return funds to the DHF. If that were to change and we'd see a big influx of new and deserving authors, we'd of course shift all our voting power towards them. At the same time I'm sure the markets, people/investors here would notice and it would reflect on price. This means that for our voting to continue giving people reasonable votes we could give them smaller votes than a few weeks ago before the price change. This also means that those authors who were getting 20-50$ in rewards from us a few weeks ago, their rewards are now worth $40-80 if the price changed, so they received more HP but same amount as HBD as those earning equal sized votes "now" after price change due to increase in new users.
So yeah, bear market is when it's best to post, but just cause there's a certain amount of Hive that needs to go out due to inflation doesn't mean you have to send all of it out to authors all the time. I like that Hive is flexible like that as long as you vote for things that benefit all of Hive and not just a few.
You answered half of this question while I was typing it -- and don't let me take too much of your time -- is Hive ready for a sudden growth spurt -- I mean, a BIG ONE? Let's say 100,000 people suddenly rolled in here -- can the scaling take that?
Noticed the edit and responded to it^^