XRP Distribution

[XRP2Moon]

Remember...with every  xrp transaction a small amount of xrp is "burned" so the numbers will really never be an exact.

[jbjnr]

Looking at the amount of XRP in distribution, I have some questions

1 I would expect the graph to be monotonic, but there's a distinct dip in mid 2017 - why did the amount increase and then decrease again?

2 The graph is flattening out - so less is being being released since mid 2017 - this could be because the amount being sold is always a % of volume (note the slight step around christmas 2017) - why else would there be less being sold than there used to be - price has risen, so harder to sell?

3 I got the data from https://data.ripple.com/v2/network/xrp_distribution does anyone know an easy way to query the same data further back in time?

thanks in advance.