RE: Exploratory Analysis – Account Creation and HF20 Changes
Hi @paulag, this analysis is really really interesting, congratulations for your hard-work.
This is my opinion about the number of discounted accounts set by witnesses.
@steemitblog in an old post mentioned that the idea is to be comparable with others social networks, and they put the example of Reddit, which has 468 million accounts.
So, following that idea, this is my proposal:
| Year | New accounts | Total accounts |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 420k | 420k |
| 2018 | 590k | 1 M |
| 2019 | 9 M | 10 M |
| 2020 | 90 M | 100 M |
| 2021 | 500 M | 600 M |
Let's move from 1 million accounts to 10 million accounts in the next year. That is 9M new accounts, which represents around 25000 accounts per day. Then every day the blockchain would give 25k tokens for new accounts, and no matter if creators claim the account that day or they hold the token for the future, we know that in long term we will have 9 million new users.
If we see that this first step went well, and the witnesses can support this big community, then the next year scale by 10 again with 90 million new accounts. And the next year 500 million accounts. Wow wow very big numbers! but I'm optimistic that it can be achieved.