RE: August and September '18 New STEEM User Report
Interesting. Lets hope its the beginning of the revival. I would appreciate your opinion on how we expect the DApps (particularly post SMT) to fund the delegation of new users. It seems that a user needs somewhere between 15 and 30 Steem to interact at a base level with the current revised RC system. Even at the current low steem prices thats 10-25$ per account which needs to be delegated. Historically steemit inc has done this from its legacy/founders holding. The new DApps will have to use hard earned cash to do this unless they can negotiate a large delegation from Steemit inc. Social media sites are lucky to make that sort of money back per user over the entire life of the user. If APPICS for example wants to onboard 500k new users, thats aprox $5 million US required in Steem (assuming you can get away with 15 steem per user at current prices ). This seems a disproportionate burden to me let alone if steem prices go up to 2-4 $ range. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
That's a good point! I think the RC situation relaxed a bit with the latest changes a few days back, but 15 SP still seems to be required to be able to make at least a few comments per day. Steemit is currently also giving out 15 SP delegations with new accounts. Dapps getting delegations from Steemit only helps indirectly, since they can't re-delegate the Steemit stake for own signups - this had to come from their own stake.
I think most of the Dapps have grown a nice little stake now anyway and as they mature more, will be able to handle the funding from their own stake.