Quote from: CoinHoarder on July 16, 2016, 12:39:38 PM

Quote from: BigSirko on July 16, 2016, 03:11:52 AM

Quote from: CoinHoarder on July 15, 2016, 11:27:41 PM

Quote from: BigSirko on July 15, 2016, 10:55:07 PM

Some people boasted about 10,000 people using Steemit but, judging by the pending payouts, almost all the activity is $0 / "freemium users". Getting a force of 10,000 out is sizeable in the crypto but it makes it nowhere as popular as Bitcointalk dotorg and isn't indicative of viral adoption.

As I've said before - Reddit clones have been tried a dozen times before and none end up viral.

You must be high or retarded if you think the hard data recorded on an immutable block chain is not indicative of viral growth: https://steemle.com/charts.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

This guys resorts to logical fallacies when he gets owned. Cheesy

Steemit is 10,000. Even that GetGems stuff, which was a clone of Telegram, had over 300,000+.

I've been looking at Alexa Rank and Google Trends, Steemit is nowhere as popular as other Reddit clones like Voat. People will realize shortly there's no people coming onto Steemit (other than crypto regulars and a few friends) and that's when the capitalization will tank.

You mean Steemit isn't as popular as web sites that have been released and marketed for years? Shocker.

Save your breath crying ad hominem. Anyone that followed the link gets my point.

Also, it looks like you pulled the 10k user number out of your butt (or whoever you ripped it from without verifying the information did.) Actual numbers are 300,000+ users with 150,000+ returning users and 102,000 loyal users averaging 10 minutes per session.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@gavvet/where-steemit-adoption-is-going-to-the-mooooon

FUD on brother!

The 10,000 number is accurate based on 7 day account activity from the steemd blockchain.

https://steemd.com/distribution

My main concern is that STEEM is no longer secured by a blockchain (steemd)...
It is, in fact, secured by a central web site that would require a staff of bank level security pros to function.

How can you "invest" in an unsecure web site?

A possible approach is a GUI wallet on top of steemd (like ETH or NXT).
But I don't see any talk of serious security... it's only a matter of time before a whale is hacked.