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thats 5 days to go..... I don't think so.... who knows.... lets see tomorrow...

Doesn't look like the majority of the users are from the US anyway

The data from Similarweb would disagree with you. According to the data on their site, almost 32% of the traffic to Steemit comes from the US, far and away the most of any country with the UK coming in second at 6.5% .

https://www.similarweb.com/website/steemit.com#overview

I think that would explain the drop in posts.