I've been checking to see if new user accounts were being added. One place to do that is on steemd. On the right side there is a set of stats and registered_accounts is near the bottom. This has hardly changed for a few days, but was up by about 260 today! In the past we were getting a couple of hundred each day, but many were likely to be 'sock puppets' or other fakes. We need real people here. There are uses for bots, but nobody should need hundreds of those.
Meanwhile the Steem price has been on a wild ride. It's still on the wave that's lifting most cryptocurrencies. That's good, but I think sustainable growth will be built on increasing usage of Steemit. When there are millions of people here earning Steem and using it to buy stuff then it will have much more value. It certainly beats Bitcoin for speed and by having free transactions. I'll be looking out for opportunities to spend some of mine.
Current users are just the first wave. We have a great opportunity to build up some Steem Power. There's only so much of that available each day and so it will get spread thinner as Steemit grows. So keep posting, commenting, voting and making connections with the amazing people here from around the world.
Steem on!
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I'm a new user! Just got my account confirmed last night. Can't wait to dive in!
Welcome! Check out some of the people I follow and see my #followfriday posts for suggestions. There's a cool crowd here. Have fun!
Great to have you aboard! You're making money on your comment here....cool!
Welcome aboard! looks like you are off to a good start
Welcome!
Welcome! Enjoy you stay :)
New user here as well. I've been excited to actually get into the platform and to see where it goes from here!
Welcome. Have fun
Welcome here @cryptoworld - let us know when you have questions
Thanks for this important news. I'm looking forward to bigger and better things. I'm commenting from busy.org to check it out. I am also trying to set up steepshot but so far it's not working for me. With developers providing these new interfaces we will become more popular!
Good to see new people here, personally hoping for a wave of scifi geeks.
I'm so happy to see that new users are finally getting onto Steemit again. I know the verification process that was implemented was needed, but it was not very good to not have any new users for a few days. Hopefully this will run smoother in the future :)
Hey! Thanks for the welcome you gave me on my post!
This is now a up-vote new users thread! :)
Thanks for sharing! steemd looks interesting :)
I think it's the official way to view what's going on with the blockchain. People can get all sorts of interesting data from it.
Plenty of data there. We should keep an eye on those figures
I just helped my friend set up her account @lisafi
@steevc
Looks like that account is not validated yet. I hope it will be soon.
That's new, an account is usually validated immediately
@steevc
It was before, but they are validating manually for now. Too many fake accounts were being created.
Or the bot owner should pay for them, not Steemit.
Well they can do that already.