Move over London and New York, there's a new sheriff in town ;)
At least this last week that is.
It's hard to say if more traffic is routed by ISP's through certain cities and where exactly the "not set" traffic is coming from, but right now Seoul, South Korea is striding out ahead of the rest, with close to 3% of all traffic to steemit.com, originating there.
That is 150% to almost 200% larger than its nearest rivals, London and New York.
It is not possible that all web traffic for the country is routed via Seoul as smaller dots are found all over South Korea.
The US and Canadian cities are to be expected in the top ten (North America is the largest traffic by region) but what is Warsaw doing there?
Australia has been a bit of a dark horse, but now suddenly traffic is surging, with two cities in the top ten.
Regional traffic has topped out at roughly double or previous records but not so for Eastern Asia (which is dominated by South Korean traffic)
It is now at levels 4 to 5 times last years record highs and just keeps climbing.
This is all great news.
Any developers that localize a Korean version of one of the STEEM blockchain web interfaces could find themselves with a very intriguing opportunity, by being first to market to this viral community.
Also the interest from various exchanges, in the region, to list STEEM is an exiting prospect. This will give users in those regions a direct on-ramp to STEEM from local currencies without having to go through the dinosaur bitcoin.
Once experiencing the speed and fee-less utility of STEEM, why would anyone in those regions utilize bitcoin as their gateway unless they really had to.
The kinds of volumes that Asian exchanges generate are astounding. This could be a real game changer for STEEM as a currency.
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