This is an amazing milestone! Today we passed the threshold for payouts, and I'm pleased to announce that #promo-steem is officially in the TOP 100 ALL TIME TAGS on the platform.
We launched this tag really back in about late october 2017, so it's really only 3 months old. And in that time, it's risen so rapidly that it's fast becoming one of the big kids on the block.
In the last 9 days, it's grown another 25%, and In the last month, it's more than doubled!!!
As of the time of this post, the amount of SBD paid out to posts using this tag was over 153,000.
That's not all. #promo-steem is the 84th most popular tag used (a total of 3709 posts have used the #promo-steem tag), and in 44th place for tags used in comments (at a staggering 4851).
Bear in mind that these are ALL TIME statistics, and as promo-steem is pretty new compared to most of the others, it's clear to see just how fast this growth really is. We really are top of the pops (or tags) now, and I'm looking forward to the countdown to see how quickly it continues to move up the rankings to the top 20 all time tags.
Why is it growing so much?
People are massively adding to the blockchain by bringing whole communities into it. They are solving so many problems of poverty and lack of access to financial service out in developing nations, and the STEEM blockchain allows them to earn often much more than they could working for the man.
We are seeing a movement of people who regard themselves as part of a voluntaryist movement, who see the blockchain solving real-world problems. These are smart people, who've figured out already that the STEEM truly is the number one blockchain for its' properties of speed, cost, capacity and transparency.
The more we promote the platform, and bring new users in, the more we will raise the price of STEEM. We have a huge opportunity not only to make money and redistribute wealth where it's most needed, but also to bring the blockchain to the masses through widespread adoption. It might well be young, but it's so much bigger than Bitcoin, Ethereum, and in fact every other blockchain out there. And not by just a little bit either!
So, promoting STEEM is probably one of the most important things you can do. It doesn't matter whether you are speaking at big conferences, or just telling your mates in the pub. We don't care if you are making high end flashy videos, or holding up a hand-written sign. If you are turning people onto STEEM, you are helping everyone, and we support you.
If you haven't done already, please check out what we are doing at 
. Please keep sharing and getting involved. We cannot do it without you. We need great promoters getting stuck in.
Our next target
I'm targetting 300,000 SBD being raised by this tag by the end of March. If we can do that (and based on past performance, I think it's perfectly possible) then we are in a phenomenal position. We are starting to attract the attention of some whales now, and we want to remind everyone that the very real work at the backend of building the promo-steem.com website and the Steem Ambassador programme is complicated, huge and very time consuming. We are doing our best, but we cannot do it all overnight, so please do bear with us whilst we get all the projects in place. Like all good things, it takes time to deliver the goods, but we are getting there.
In the meantime, thanks for being a supporter. You guys are truly amazing!
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