Dear @newageinv
Right now my impression is that steemit used to be "for everyone" and it has changed into "club for privillaged only".
until the perfect formula finally appears to drive value, growth, and development for all that are stakeholders here.
Perfect formula? Do you believe that those days may ever come? Perhaps it will. But for steem blockchain it may be kind of to late. Damage has been done and the moment when other blockchain similar to STEEM will be launched then I would be that steem will slowly become thing of the past. However it will probably never die.
Just like Yahoo become thing of the past once google took over.
over a million is still a respectable figure to consider for a technology early in adoption
Indeed I've heard number of times that there isn't more than 50k active accounts. And that was before HF21. Right now probably this amount dropped a lot.
Upvote on the way. Catch :)
Yours,
Piotr
Still lots needed to get where we need to be but I think that Steem is closer than others trying to do the same thanks to an engage community, no matter how small it is.