Hf 20 fork

I was just reading an article from Hive account@themarkymark that he wrote last year about the primary objective of hf20.

To sum up his comments, the focus of the hard fork is improving the process of account creation. Also to position steem so that it can support a larger user base similar to Reddit.

The proposed plan would be to offer all steem new user accounts a minimum bandwidth and this would allow new users to participate on the blockchain without steem power.

One of the key areas limiting steems growth is the cost in creating new accounts.

At the rate that steem is growing at the time it would take 12 years to reach half the size of Reddit 234 million users.

A post by Hive account@arcange show that in february 2018 the total number of registered users was 800,000. The total number of active users who used the site atleast 1 time was half of that 400,000.

I just received a correction from Hive account@themarkymark and he says that the active use base is 20,000 or less and we have a registered base of users of over 1 million, so we still have a long way to go.

Even though we are at 1 million users that's still pretty small compared to other social media platforms. Facebook has 2.23 billion active users who contribute to the platform for free with no incentive. What happens when people figure out they can make profit on steemit.