Hello Steemers,
As of now our steemit community has ~181,000 total accounts and ~10,000 active users (see here), this is a day over day increase of 2% in new accounts and 23% day over day increase in Active users.
If the pace continues, then Steemit will hit a million userbase mark in the matter of months, and you verywell can calculate the cummulative growth then.
With such a massive growth, do you think today's giants like Facebook or Google will simply ignore this space?
Lets look at some big ticket acquisitions in the recent past.
- $1B - Facebook bought Instagram with 30 million users in 2012
- $3B - Facebook pitched for Snapchat with ~35 million users back in 2013, the deal didnt happen but you realize the potential
- $19B - Facebook bought Whatsapp with 450 million users in 2014
One thing that we understand from these acquisitions is Facebook want to be social media king, whatever the prize may be.
Steemit is one such growing community which is just over 1 year old.
So now the question arises
- Can steemit be bought? Given steemit's business model and decentralized structure
- Or can Facebook or Google buy majority of Steems from exchanges and claim the ownership
If this is possible, it can give Facebook a foot in the door to enter cryptocurrency world through social media route.
Dear steemers, please help me understand the extent of possibilities
Or please resteem so that we can get the right answer - crowd intelligence
