The flood of spammy, mult-alt accounts being generated with signup spamming of social media and black market sim cards... The rates of self voting accelerates and the steemit chat is full of digital sweatshop spammers hawking respun claptrap.
This is not organic growth of real userbase but the bonanza on reward pool rape rapidly picking up steem. The signal to noise ratio is getting worse and the scalability of graphene is being sorely tested.
One day we will wake up to "unable to retrieve data" errors and "transaction broadcast error" when we try to cash out to an exchanger. This signup spam is a very bad sign.