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If most of the dust accounts are bots, then the real number of users on steemit is about 5000? That puts things in a different light!

If you exclude the bot dust, then the whales own a smaller % of the eco-system than is being claimed.

I do a weekly report, and right now we have about ~10,000 active users. Real users is more than that, but probably nowhere near 80k.

right now we have about ~10,000 active users. Real users is more than that

Maybe but "active users" also includes some bots, duplicate accounts, spambots, etc. I don't really see a good way to measure "real users" on this system.