Perspective: on the growth of STEEM and Steemit.com

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A couple quick charts to give perspective on STEEM and Steemit.com's usage growth.

The STEEM blockchain has been operating for 11 months, and the UI (in beta) for 8 months.


Bitcoin's transaction rate growth, 2009 - 2017

Here is a chart of daily BTC transactions, with ETH and STEEM markers for comparison.
(According to stephenkendal@stephenkendal's last report, we've been reaching 150K transactions lately.)

bts-txs.png

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Reddit's growth, 2005 - 2012

This is not necessarily a fair comparison. The internet was certainly a different place in 2005. Things move faster now. Creating a centralized social network is magnitudes easier than a blockchain-based one. But the old models are showing their cracks.

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