I count 20 new users holding more than 500 hive.
Those numbers are becoming more and more depressing. I consider my account quite small still. Yet I have as much HP as few of the bigger users in table above together? That is not good.
Also I don't remember how long it took me to reach 500HP. But I believe that new users gets more support from curation groups like ocdb. So 13 months should be enough time to reach 500HP as long as those users are making decent content and at least trying to engage with community. Looking at it another way Hive now is at 0.298 USD so 500 HP is worth 149 USD. It is a shame that many new users are either not willing or not able to invest 149 USD. I far from rich but even I was able to invest more than that... This means that many people are either even more poor. or that they are like my classmate who I invited to Hive. He stayed for +-1 month. Did not post anything and did not buy even 1 Hive. He thought that he will get rich just by curating...Sad.
Yeah. This campaign "get crypto to post junk" never worked.
If someone is not ready to put $150 into themselves for 1 year, I am not interested in those people.
Also it is highly doubtful how many of them are people.