RE: STEEM And Steemians Are Trailblazers: Keep A Long-Term Perspective
Great points @moneyinfant...everything with crypto seems on steroids. That said, development progresses at the rate it does...that cannot be sped up. There are a lot of amazing things being worked on and I bet you see a lot out of the creators on here...2018 will flourish for that also. That said, all new stuff has bugs and takes time to work out.
We are going to see massive growth in this platform...that is guaranteed...the ranking in the search engines and the amount of articles posted will ensure that. With over 20,000 authors each day (that is probably 30K-40K articles), we are adding to the size of this ecosystem by a large number. That is a lot of pages to add each day.
Give it another 6 months and I think you see things really accelerated from where we are now.
Yes, I realize bugs take time to work out. One area that shows great promise, but I think will grow more slowly than currently believed, is smart contracts. Contracts can be very complex and detailed, and will take time to get right, outside very simple and basic automation.
Regarding the Steemit platform - As long as Google doesn't decide to "downvote" the Steemit domain. Even with that I believe the platform will continue growing at an accelerated pace simply by "word-of-mouth".