RE: The Price of Steem should currently be trading at $2.22 and here's why:

[staticinstance]

I'm getting 459396 accounts at the moment by using the API

uint64_t graphene::app::database_api::get_account_count()

http://docs.bitshares.org/api/database.html#_CPPv2NK8graphene3app12database_api17get_account_countEv

scroll up just a bit to see
uint64_t graphene::app::database_api::get_account_count()