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I think we can reach 800.000 accounts this year.
Actually i'm working on my python skript to create a chart, that shows the active accounts too.

I just mentioned an idea of mine in another post a few minutes ago, but I believe it wouldn't be a bad idea to take a small part of all STEEM (you can call it gas, inflation, whatever) to be spend on advertising/marketing by the Steemit team. If this is done well, perhaps that will very positively influence the influx of new users to the platform.