Hi @clevecross - while I realize that you were not questioning what is done with the funds, I would just like to repost a comment @liberosist made a few days ago in regards to where the funding goes. We want to be as transparent as possible:

The funding goes towards -

- Fees for curators and proxy voters.
- Beyond our primary curation team, we also have people who are screening posts, checking for plagiarism, voting etc. behind the scenes in shifts round the clock. We are close to covering 24x7 - hopefully that'll happen from next week. Our team spans North America, Africa and South Asia.
- Development of bots, scripts, etc.
- Fees for #curie curators, #curie moderators.
- Accounting, voting power management etc.
- Buying and powering up proxy voting accounts so they have the weight slider.
- Currently, we are screening 1,500-2,000 posts and curating 100-150 posts per day.

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Additionally, as @donkeypong stated @the-alien is a vital member of Project Curie and pours his heart into the project for the betterment of the Steemit community. While I also do not condone his use of language and we do not blacklist anyone for questioning the project, I understand that he must have been very upset when he felt accused of trying to hurt the community when in fact he has spent hours on end selflessly working on this project.