Great points. It's like a gateway drug into the other aspects of crypto. Steemit, while is does have a learning curve can be mastered and understood WAY more easily than exchanges and moving around coins from wallets and setting up your own miner.

People who have never heard of crypto are jumping on Steemit which is forcing them to learn the technology and believe me, they are telling their friends. The open wallets are brilliant because anyone can see that people are making money....and that drives involvement...BIG TIME!

Give this another 6 months. I see an additional 500k or 1 million users on the platform and at that point, mainstream media articles will be talking about steemit and facebook/youtube and other social media sites will be in full blown panic mode with focus groups and surveys trying to figure out how to stop the bleeding.

I have had a few people tell me that Facebook is never going away. Same with Youtube.

All I have is one word in response. MYSPACE.