after a while, number of validated identities is down, it is not much, from 2710 to 2677, but that is a stop for continuous up-trend, that was struck only by block error five epoch's ago
what do you think is a reason, just summer vacation period or there is more to it?
I beleive that biggest stimuli for user growth would be bigger price. It's not the same now when daily mining reward is under a dollar compared to biggest user growth when people practically begged for invites, then daily mining reward was 4.5 dollars. As simple as that.
Take a look at a detailed graph explaining who failed the most:
https://idena.today/images/matrix/matrix-51.svgMostly newbies that either forget about validation or they are not motivated to continue.
Candidates who most likely fail to setup stable Idena node, either late sync or bad internet connection/router.