An interesting thing happened the last couple day according to the daily report put together by 
Sign ups are picking up, at least for the last two days. We saw a significant jump in the number of accounts approved.
As you can see, yesterday hit a level not seen since early November, before Ned's announcement about the layoffs.
The bulk of the sign up still came from Steemit.
https://busy.org/@penguinpablo/steem-stats-report-january-10-4-108-new-accounts
So what gives?
While I am not thrilled that Steemit is still contributing such a large percentage, it is good they are approving accounts. If history is any indication, this will be short lived as evidenced by the charts. Hopefully, we will see it continue though.
Of course, I would prefer if the DApps were taking up a larger part of the sign up process but I guess they are still trying to figure it out. At some point, one will break the code and the rest will follow. This will decentralize the ecosystem a great deal more.
As many of you know, I monitors the accounts each week that achieve different levels of SP from 1 to 5,000.
This week, after two weeks of going negative, saw an increase in the number of accounts reaching 1 SP. We still have a few days to go since my reports are done Sunday afternoon. Nevertheless, we are seeing a turnaround at this level.
https://steemitboard.com/ranking/index.php?p=10486&s=vests
We were under 262,000 as of the last report.
It is good to keep in mind this is SP meaning that it was most likely reward for activity on the Steem blockchain. This means it is always running a week behind. The accounts achieving 1 SP took the action a week ago.
The turnaround in the numbers makes some sense since the two negative weeks were over the holidays.
It is becoming evident to me that the numbers keep improving each week. Accounts are reaching higher levels which is helpful. Perhaps if more people are signing up (and getting approved), we will see the pace of change increase. The direction is obvious. Steem is going in the right direction with the distribution of the coins. The challenge is that we are moving at a snail's pace.
I guess we have to walk before we can run. We still are very early from a technical perspective especially with the DApps. The more time that passes, the more the developers have to offer new users.
That said, Steem is still kicking ass on the State of the DApps site. These are the Steem apps ranked in the Top 25.
The Top 20, especially, are well represented by Steem applications.
Who knows: there might be a few Dolphins in the making in the 5,600+ accounts that were approved in the last couple of days.
In spite of it all, Steem is making steady progress.
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