"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

The challenge with statistics to create stores is, well, we're still stuck with stories. Those stories may or may not directly be proven by the data. I think it's quite difficult (impossible maybe?) to know exactly how much the high SBD value is impacting things verses the whole STEEM ecosystem driving things up on it's own both in terms of user adoption and rewards pool value via an increased STEEM value.

We may be chasing the dragon, but I also think if we start now and show a long history of something that actually works and secure, that's really valuable. This is world domination stuff after all, right? :)