Great insight to what is happening with the decrease of pending payout. Most of us see the $ counter going down over time, however today is a good day: I actually saw the $ counter going up, or at least I think I saw it going up. Doesn't the Steem value have anything to do with the variations we see in the $ count at our posts and comments? I would think it has an influence and lately Steem lost quite a lot of value on the exchanges and must therefore also be reflected in the internal Steem and SBD prices we show at the posts and comments.