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RE: STEEM Witness Forum Jan 20th 2018 - Can The STEEM Blockchain Scale - Where are we going?
Glad to have found this post. I personally think the active # of users estimate here will get crushed by the end of 2018, but just a hunch ;). I have been thinking about and wanting to learn about the scale ability of this platform so hope to see more like this in the future I can add to my mental soup. Thanks!
I would actually LOVE to to see the active users closer to 1 million by the end of 2018. I think 100k is way too conservative. Consider this fact, less than 1% of the Us Population has ever even heard of Bitcoin. I don't think that number is to the moon either considering how fast crypto took of this year and the crackdown on free speech on twitter and facebook is only going to be a reason for more people to look elsewhere for a community to become part of.
I would think the 1% bitcoin stat was from a year ago. Most people I talk to now have heard of it, they just know nothing about it.
I agree 1mill could be crushed & that people will leave those dirty sites. I think developing countries can give steemit a huge push past 1mill. Looking at the smartphone penetration rates from 2017 there are only 27 countries in the world with a 50% adoption rate. There will soon be hundreds of millions if not billions of new smartphone users from poor areas eager to use their phone as a tool to make money. If steemit is positioned as a place for people to easily generate income watch out