Would you join us in celebrating the viral growth we are experiencing with doubling the number of Steem users from about 150,000 three months ago to TODAY we will cross 300,000 users? Data provided by @furion on https://steemdata.com/stats.
View the richest Steemians and user list in detail with SteemDB by @jesta at https://steemdb.com/accounts.
Less than three months ago when I joined Steemit at the end of May 2017 here is what the user count looked like!
The original screenshot was from https://steemd.com/distribution which is currently under maintenance by @roadscape. I am honored to be among the superhero users today :)
We are bringing friends and family here at an incredible rate which suggests we will reach over a million users within the next year and maybe even six months! What an amazing journey together and a great time to pause to celebrate!
Love,
Jerry Banfield
I have convinced my mother to join. And going to get my grandpa on here too. Soon after going to focus on my uncle. These are all individuals with great content to offer and they are all invested in cryptocurrency. (because of me)
I spread the word about Steem any chance I can because the more users we have, the more the network can grow. However, we NEED to solve this scalability issue soon!
Please elaborate, as if everyone is not a genius, obviously understands what you mean by your generic statement. Thanks ;-)
It is way too much for me to get into the technicals for the entire issue right now. but in summary, STEEM servers are requiring too much RAM and the amount is growing daily. Eventually it will cost a few hundred a month to run a STEEM node easily. Check out some of the posts in #steemit-dev sometime for my clarification. Gotta run for the moment though!
It's probably worth it, if you are a witness, and make many times that per month?
That's the point though, it won't be profitable eventually. Or at least only profitable for very highly voted witnesses.
Great but it is the 5m and then100m mark that will be exciting. And if steemit doesn't start offering clear investment information about interest rate and what people get for voting etc then another social site with financial upvoting will over- take steemit. I can't believe reddit doesn't have something like this under development. The difficulty of getting up to date information from the site itself is appalling. I like steemit so I want it to fix this. But in the meantime Ive started powering down as the lack of correct factual information on the site makes it hard for me to trust the founders and when I describe the misinformation to friends outside the crypto space they all say it just seems very fishy and to get out before I'm left looking like a fool. Jerry if you actually read this perhaps you can bring this and my longer post https://steemit.com/steemit/@katythompson/to-the-founders-ned-and-others-quick-wins-to-make-steemit-less-complicated-for-newcomers about the same topic to the founders' attention.
There is a rebranding in the works, I'm sure all of that information will be part of it.
Well I jolly well hope it does - there needs to be a tab that says in black and white what investors who steem up get, under what circumstances and what people with no steem power get under what circumstances. And if the rules change it needs to be clear what they changed from and to and on what date the change came into effect. If the changes alter the financial attractiveness of investing they should not take effect for 12 weeks which is the time it would take someone to entirely power down if they don't like the changes.
Sure, we should just have the SEC regulate it. Careful what you wish for..
Do you think this is why STEEMIT has been in beta all along ??
Where can we get more infos about that rebranding?
In the Steemit 2017 roadmap on page 12, you will see information on the re-branding of Steemit. The main reason is to differentiate the Steemit blockchain, Steemit company and the steemit website. Here is the link :) https://steem.io/2017roadmap.pdf
Thank you for the link, I will check it out. :)
You're welcome :)
The principal! He will give me TP! I would hate for my bungholio to get polio....Where I come from, we have no bunghole.
Steem is the blockchain, STEEM is the token, Steemit is the website and Steemit Inc is the company. Why rebrand?
To segregate the business functions. Although they have something to do with each other, all users will not be "savvy" enough to realise the difference in their purposes.
now you have some truly valid points.
it'd be good to have more information on the exact interest rate and more info easily for the people.
didn't know about the rebrand coming as well. any news of when it will happen @adept?
that was spot on katy, i noticed you don't have a profile picture. would you like help making one?
Thanks - its on my to do list. I think I know how but if I get stuck I'll come to you for help.
Keep in mind that SteemIt is a frontend website for interacting with Steem. If you think SteemIt is not delivering a valuable product or needs to be improved, it is very well advised to start your own frontend website for interacting with the blockchain.
Or, the code for Steem and SteemIt, as well as the website code, are open source and available at https://github.com/steemit for anyone to make issues or feature requests.
We want the backend (Steem) to be functional moreso than a frontend website. I think in order to get the best of both worlds, we shouldn't rely on the Steem devs to make the best frontend website possible.
As for the calculations, again that is all available from public data either in the Whitepaper, the source code, or on the blockchain. If you have ideas for clever ways to display this to users, even things such as a sketch or drawing of a website, then please do share. I am always looking for ideas to program, but people first have to speak up and explain what needs to be done.
As for your comment about Reddit or another competitor "just adding a blockchain voting system" that would be interesting to see. And competition is not a bad thing.
Steemit is an end user facing service and people are being invited to invest in it by putting steem in and converting to steem power. As such it should have an excellent front end and the terms on which people are being asked to invest should be accurate, transparent and easy to find.
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I think we have an opinion here, that is from the heart, unadulterated and pretty much what IT IS...
People are invited to invest in the actual product and technology, Steem and Steemd. Not SteemIt which is really a proof of concept frontend implementation as I said.
The Steem Dev team have already said before that they expect the community to make the best frontend for Steemd (the actual tech that provides a product that consumers utilize)
In my opinion, investments to SteemIt.inc are more wisely used on the development of Steemd, not the website that they don't even really have intentions on maintaining.
I do agree that the white paper should be updated to match current values and the state of the network.
Still, the SteemIt website is in a public repo. Go make feature suggestions because your ideas aren't bad. But expecting a small under resourced team to have the time and desire to implement the little things before the community really asks for them is silly.
Yeah, yeah, don't make excuses... please.
"no intention of maintaining", so please elaborate.. what is possible to say, further on this subject?
So many tools available outside of steemit; I would think it's very possible to purchase and integrate these features.
Not sure what you are quoting here but I am not making excuses for anyone. There are several great tools like you mention, but acquiring a company to implement their tech is far different than building your own team to spend time developing it from scratch.
I fully agree that SteemIt should be funding developers and acquiring projects to pull in house.
I do not agree that SteemIt should be expected to be the end all be all for the frontend offerings. That gives one company way too much power over a decentralized system. As of right now, most people think Steem and SteemIt are one and the same.
It's now great time to buy extra STEEM :)
So much good news last days hope it will continue like that even for steem hope a 3 price in few months.
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1 million accounts by the turn of the year!
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That's awesome. I'm proud to be in the top 1000 or so accounts :)
You're a big part if that, thanks Jerry!
This is great news but at the same time, as I´m getting more and more involved in Steemit, I wonder how well is the scalability taking into account by the developers. People in the community like @elfspice are point out some serious issues with the type of servers, witnesses , etc. I think we need more transparency in this area that concerns all of as. The more we grow the more we need it
Oh yeah, Way to go Steeemit !!!
Hi Jerry.
Mate, I was doing some research on cryptos / blockchains for a staff training session I will be running at the office.
Came across this video of yours!
Just wanted to write and say 'great stuff'! Really enjoyed the vid. You had me laughing and reconsidering my crypto investment strategy at the same time. Your concept of investing the majority of your time and energy in one cryptocurrency, as you would your wife, does make a lot of sense. And does go against conventional 'diversification' wisdom - which is kind of herd mentality anyway.
So 300,000 accounts - double in 3 months. Exciting stuff.
So thank you for all you do to promote this platform and know that you have given me a kick up the arse to do more.
Regards,
SirKnight.
It about to blowwww!!
that's awesome, thanks for the info Jerry
That is really incredibly good rate of growth... thanks @jerrybanfield for sharing, yes we definitely need to celebrate this great success....
Yes, it is really incredible. You're also doing good work sir @hms818. I am following you for some time, your posts on food are completely genuine. I like your food posts greatly :)
Thanks!
Our community just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Thank you Jerry!
The growth on this platform alone is testament to the foundation that it is built upon! I mean that! I have been a part of EVERY social media platform for as long as I can remember and I have NEVER encountered one like Steemit.
This group of positively like minded people are going to shape the future. mark my words!
Very inspiring!
You are an inspiration @jerrybanfield! You truly are. A leader! - about that presidential campaign ;)
Completely unrelated and almost awkwardly shared... lol.... but not absolutely irrelevant I hope hehe.... my latest post...
Hope you enjoy ;)
https://steemit.com/life/@jaynie/step-inside-the-authentic-individual
Please keep being awesome! xxxxxx
@jaynie I need more words for grateful because I already wrote thank you and appreciate in the last reply and I am out now! Which I guess leaves action! I will read your post now and recognize the same level of awkwardness I enjoy!
waaahahahahaha!!! No words... just smiles :)
As long as Steemit attracts good-quality content creators and people willing to use it and maximize its platform, the growth is inevitable.
Keep steeming and enjoying your time here!
Thank you @prince-maanisaad!
Amazing to be a part of 300,000 accounts and to see the amazing growth! thank you for sharing this information with us @jerrybanfield and I know I would not have been a part of this community unless I heard about Steemit through you! @joeparys
I'm so happy steemit is growing so fast! Can't wait for the 1 millionth account made, that will be a heck of a milestone.
Jerry I asked a question before on my post why is it so hard to get an answer?
Jerry Steemit is still in its infancy it will get much much larger
TO THE MOOON. 1 Million end of the year
We will hit 1 million by the end of the year!
We are growing fast. Only 10,000 of those are bot accounts haha.
I looked into steemit in AUG 3rd and even created an account but forgot all about it 😳.
When I seen @jerrybanfield join in May (loyal follower on YouTube) I jumped right back in as I knew he was capable of bringing in thousands of people, thanks jerry for bringing me back into steemit! 💪🏼🙌🏼💯
We are Growing Everyday. STEEMIT is the place to be and more and more people are just finding out that they can get paid for contributing. Tell me again how that is not appealing when it comes to other Social Media that people participate in and derive NOTHING ??? @jerrybanfield Thank you once again for great content.
That is great news more and more Steemians are joining everyday, glad that the community is growing rapidly.
That's Steemingly good to know!!!!!!!
This is an amazing community and I know it will continue to grow and grow!
I look forward to explosive growth in steemit when people of reddit/facebook realized the paying alternative of steemit compare to the non-paying platforms they currently use. I enjoy being in on the ground floor of an economic revolution : )
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As always I follow/upvote/resteem those that do the same for me. Just don't spam my feed or will unfollow/mute.
So happy to be a part of the Steemit community. I see it being as popular as Reddit with in a year and Facebook with 2 years!
Congrats to us! The community! I'm excited to see how many people will be at Steemfest 2, since I attended the first one. Your consistent and valuable content, excitement and commitment for sure has done great help in reaching this milestone, so thanks Jerry :)
Surely it did @mrs.steemit for example I got to know about steemit from his youtube channel and joined here on 24th June. So much grateful to jerry for that!
Congrats to us glad to be a part of such growing community!!! 😊😊
Wow, that fast! I am so glad I joined steemit! @go2sheila
It's awesome to see steemit grow so fast ! We won't even notice when it's going to hit 1 billion users hehe...
Its a great news really happy to see steem it growth.
Here is a little chart I did of users created by month based on the data from steem data. I did not include August data since it not complete. But it does seem users sign up in waves. Thanks @jerrybanfield for keeping us well informed.
Cheers boys!
congratulation!!!
That's awesome! I know I tell everyone I meet in real life about it. If we all keep spreading the news about this platform it will continue to explode.
It is a lot of accounts but I just wonder how long it is taking people to get accounts. I tried to get a second account through the normal process but was never allowed access.
wow nice to see the incridible growth of steemit.
I wish it can break all records and places a no.1 blogging website.
Love @kings-empire
excellent ! thanks for sharing. :)
WOW... 300,000 good value..
Your best @jerrybanfield
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Congratulations to us. WE ROCK! WE'RE STEEMING ON!
Wow what an incredible milestone! Thanks for the awesome update and all the stats and links. Very useful information.
300k thats quite some. But i guess that half of it is bots? Is there a statistic about that? Just my opinion. J
haha today i actually showed this website to my friends i think now steemit has 5 more users :)
Wow congrats .
Now we will grow at double speed .