I just resteemed the daily report from @elyaque. A couple of things I want to point out that are interesting.
Steemit has consistently been signing up 2000 people a day for months now (That's about 740k per year). This should continue to compound and reach critical mass. That is exciting.
The powering down reduction is very bullish for Steem because it indicates people are investing versus speculating.
The rewards pool chart shows exactly what we have been talking about the last few days.....Don't know how this will shake out?!
Also down in the comments it was said that we should get off of the Beta version this year!
Thanks