This is my opinion about the number of discounted accounts set by witnesses.
@steemitblog in an old post mentioned that the idea is to be comparable with others social networks, and they put the example of Reddit, which has 468 million accounts.
So, following that idea, this is my proposal:
| Year | New accounts | Total accounts |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 420k | 420k |
| 2018 | 590k | 1 M |
| 2019 | 9 M | 10 M |
| 2020 | 90 M | 100 M |
| 2021 | 500 M | 600 M |
Let's move from 1 million accounts to 10 million accounts in the next year. That is 9M new accounts, which represents around 25000 accounts per day. Then every day the blockchain would give 25k tokens for new accounts, and no matter if creators claim the account that day or they hold the token for the future, we know that in long term we will have 9 million new users.
If we see that this first step went well, and the witnesses can support this big community, then the next year scale by 10 again with 90 million new accounts. And the next year 500 million accounts. Very big numbers! but I'm optimistic that it can be achieved.
The point is, as much as discounted accounts increase then more people could claim them and this option not only @steem would have it.
What I don't see is how this rate can grow when this was an excerpt from @steemitblog's recent post:
I responded with this comment about how it's critical to treat this interface a top priority because the people (users) will be the future businesses and/or referrers of businesses the company is expecting to have come in by the thousands down the line. The users will be the biggest funnel for viral marketing and promotion, given their experience, understanding and relationships in the blockchain space.
Not prioritizing their experience, the primary platform through which they interact with the blockchain, and most critically "user acquisition and retention" could really come back to haunt. It's also a worrisome mindset to hear because what business would want to bring or build their customers on a primary window to the blockchain that will openly say that they don't prioritize these things?
I've always had the feeling that it is the right approach just not very well communicated.
Steemit.inc has the ressources to concentrate on the blockchain development itself and steemit.com is treated as a proof of concept and there are many incentives for developpers to create Interfaces and enhance the user experience.
It is the non written strategy and i thing it is the right one.
the steem blockchain is much more than a simple blogging platform, and empowering outsiders to develop interfaces and uses while working on the blockchain itself is a brilliant formula.
Valid points. However, I am working on an entirely new UI to take the mantle of onboarding normies into crypto.
This is interesting, looking forward to this @ned. Looking forward to many things, but this was unexpected, in a very good way.
Thank you for taking the time to do UI/UX for Normies. It seems no matter what is done, steemit.com is the url that people voluntarily chose, trust and I do not think that will change.
Will the new system make it easy to create quickly a lot of paper-wallets or account-claim codes for giveaways on stands and events?
Yeah, Steemit will continue to be the face of STEEM. Even though I know of and use other interfaces such as Busy, SteemPeak, and Partiko, I still think of Steemit.com as the baseline with which all others are compared. (And the one I somehow prefer regardless of its lack of pertinent info like VP%)
An excellent, sleek, modern UI would do wonders for Steemit. Interested to see what @ned is hinting at here! I hope it includes significant gamification. If people think Steemit is addictive now, it could be riveting with proper gamification.
Except everything will be new. In order to give the project maximal potential I’m building it under a new corporate structure with new top tier scalable name and domain (mobile first, though) and mission leveraging much experience gained, I believe much to the benefit of everyone, who will join.
Ned I've been messaging you for an idea I have on twitter, but you never replied. Do you even check your tweets there?
On a break from Twitter — you can find me on steem.chat @ned or email contact@steemit.com
damn an all I ever wanted was for @ned to notice my song for Steemit ;(
Nice to know there is other way to contact you except steem.chat. My steem.chat account was banned by an admin of chat for retaliation, because I posted an article to show that he is a spammer.
Nice I'll be making the switch when it's released.
That sounds Awesome, I have a feeling this can be huge! Please tell me when to join. I got a phone :)
Will attention still be given to this platform, after the new UI is released? Also, maybe I am missing something, but why so much flagging on @sircork's commentary? It may be extreme, or a bit sharp, but I don't see why the captain of the ship oughta knock his rep down by 5 points. Just wondering.
Why not just use something like https://steempeak.com ? It's far better already.
Looking forward to the UI roll-out.
Hopefully, a greater UX?
Thank you for taking the time to respectfully read and comment with this foreshadowing. Framing this for my wall.
Great, that's very important @ned . That, and with what I said above about Coinbase including Steem in it's "other assets", could combine to make both the network and the value of Steem explode... once it's both easy for "normies" to onboard, AND for them to buy Steem with USD.
Has Steem Inc applied for listing via Coinbase brand new submission form?
https://listing.coinbase.com/
I'll have to pinch myself to see if I'm dreaming once STEEM is on Coinbase. A dream come true!
THAT would be amazing
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Leaders say "WE", not "I"...
Last I checked you’ve never been part of it. Muted for toxicity.
Literally just totally proved my point. Well done, young man, well done. You have nothing to fear but truth itself.
Oh and "last WE checked" ;)
Oh 100% ned flags won't draw ANY attention to this at all.
Flagged for citing rule #1 of every basic management class in the world.
Amateur is as amateur does... :D
Thanks for demonstrating literally everything I asserted.
Son, I was in tech before you born, some 35 years now, including roles at NASA for the CIO's office and winning awards from a former US President for my technical skills and service.
Sit down son. Have some popcorn and learn from your elders...
!popcorn
So what prevents you from implementing a platform similar to the post HF20 STEEM minus the premining?
I can help with ideas for improvement.
I will join and will advertise it to others.
Might even try to study parts of the code and change it to implement improvements.
It should be a freemium like steemit, where everyone starts from an initially equal stake, except maybe from the staff, then again, the staff will be the first users and will have an immediate advantage because of it.
The staff will also be the first witnesses.
This place is too corrupt to save and you know it.
Flagging @sircork for internet trolling
leaders as facilitators 😌
Still say we... ;)
@SirCork, Ned is downvoted you. I'm reading your comments. By the way, Obama said I and Trump said we. So, Steemit is better than Facebook. Steem is improving. I'm following your conversations here with Ned & others. I'm thinking about all of it right now. I'm Oatmeal. Keep up the good work.
Hi Joey L:) Isn't it fun watching the Glorious leader melt down over a pronoun?
He gets more insane every day!