Steem was design to empower communities and the fundamentals are strong. As we move to HF20 - velocity (new upgrade) that will accelerate user sign-up, we could see 100X growth per year. Especially if we take into consideration all the projects currently being build on the protocol. i.e: @Busy.org (decentralize facebook), @SteepShot (decentralize Instagram), @Viewly (decentralize Youtube), @Zappl (Decentralize Twitter) and more...