Hello Steemit friends,

WOW!!! WOW! if i look back to my creation on Steemit it is about 10 months ago on 2017-07-22, 14:34 and i was No. 275,433. Now we have 725,0000 more registrations in just 10 months.. great achievement! Before i go to bed i'll sent my congratulations to Steemit Inc. and the COMMUNITY! because we will reach 1 Million Registrations this night! (UTC+2) while i sleep or not later than tomorrow!

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just 115 registrations left to the million!

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More Numbers for STEEM

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What happened since inception in 2016 with STEEM may a good indicator what we'll see in the coming years.. just look at that:

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source: steempunks project

diagrams by author based on steempunks project data

There is a clear trend up for all 3 key numbers (price, volume, market cap). We are in the mid of 2018 means the data is incomplete for this year! What will happen until end of this year? Even with no movement the charts looking great!

source: Alexa

After the the bull run in Dec 2017 to Jan 2018 we see the slump but it's slowing down and looks like a reversal together with Consensus 2018 conference, our million achievement and also with the mainnet launch of EOS i think Steemit will gain even more popularity as beacon project and learning experience for Dan Larimer and his team. We see first fruits of the ICO's from 2017 and before and it develops like an avalanche for further mass adoption in my point of view. Steemit will be spread by word of mouth and we'll see a growing community. I'm also excited of the coming effects of the long awaited [HF20], SMT (Smart Media Tokens) and automation of registration process.

source: Blocktivity

Look at that! The activity of STEEM is almost double the Ethereum network and with very low capacity utilization (CUI). The activity valuation index (AVI) shows a extremely high value for STEEM and Bitshares because both are very active with a quite low market cap in comparison to Ethereum or Bitcoin.

Thanks to @penguinpablo we'll see the daily stats for Steemit and beside the 1 million registrations we must look at the monthly active users. My rule of thumb is 10% of the registrations, means 100,000 monthly active users. That is backed by the data from @penguinpablo. He looks at about 60,000 transfering accounts and a lot more who just reading on Steemit. If this share remains we'll see further growth.

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The Steemit Ecosystem

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Beside the milestone the Steemit ecosystem has massively grown with additional dapps like

Steemit DApps (click images!)	Steemit DApps (click images!)
the decentralized version of Youtube, rewarding many instead a few	earn money with high quality music and interesting podcasts
earn money with live video streaming	earn money with developing, testing, documenting open source dapps
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earn money for your funny memes!	-

• DTube - video streaming platform
• DSound - music, podcast stream platform
• DLive - live streaming video platform
• Utopian - for open source developers, tester, documenters
• DMania - publish your best memes

The wonderful thing about all these dapps is that they are linked to your Steemit account and you can earn rewards respective real money for great content!

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The Steemit Tools

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There are a lot of helpers around supporting you while create great posts for Steemit, e. g. to track your rewards, followers, achievements. To name a few of my favorites (click images):

Steemit Tools (click images!)	Steemit Tools (click images!)
in my point of view the best analysis and administration tool for Steemit users	motivation with a great variety of possible achievements, supports a active community!
detailed reputation tracker	fast and reliable exchange i use mostly for powerup with SBD
some interesting stats for STEEM and other cryptocurrencies	funny visualization of active whales (big SteemPower holders) who maybe watching for your next post to upvote!

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Steemit Frontends

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The starting point for Steemit is steemit.com but there are other frontends out there which can be used like the following:

- busy.org

Style is more similar to Facebook BUT you can earn real money! 😁👍

- zappl.com

It is designed for short messages like Twitter BUT you can earn real money! 😁👍

- steepshot.io

And also a Instagram equivalent is available with steepshot.io BUT you can earn real money! 😁👍

In all three cases you you connect with your Steemit account and jumping on the grid... ähm STEEM blockchain 😁

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Further STEEM based DApps (decentralized applications)

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STEEM is more than Steemit! It is the basis for many more DApps like Steemit you can find here.

Each day STEEM and Steemit is growing, join the revolution and have fun while earning money!

What are your favorite DApps, Tools for Steemit and beyond?

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👍 If you like the read please follow me, vote me up and resteem! 👍 Thank you !👍

Exciting times ahead steemit friends!

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GREAT	APPS
Hear Great Music on DSound by @prc	Watch Great Videos on DTube by @heimindanger
Personal Stats with SteemWorld by @steemchiller	Great Live-Streams with DLive by @dlive

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