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Recently a <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/" rel="noopener">Motherboard</a> writer reached out to write a story about Steemit, Corin Faife. You may still have time to share your story before it's published: 

https://steemit.com/steem/@corintxt/be-part-of-a-feature-on-steem-for-vice-motherboard 

I'd expect the story to come out in the next week and a flood of new users to start. One thing to point out about motherboard, and vice it has a very high geek/tech following, and people outside of cryptocurrencies. A lot of existing crypto folks have found this place, but this opens the door for a new breed.<br />
Motherboard has an audience aware of Bitcoin and that is cryptocurrency friendly. Their video about the inside of a Chinese Bitcoin Mining Farm has 1.5 Million views.<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8kua5B5K3I</p>
<p>It's related to the website http://vice.com. Vice is huge in the United States and has a HBO series covering topics from government corruption, tripping on psychedelics, ongoing conflicts and more. </p>
<p>Vice currently has 7 million subscribers on <a href="http://youtube.com/vice">youtube</a>.<br />
<img src="https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/08/08/VICEYouTubefa24e.png" /></p>
<p>Their most viewed youtube video has 19 million views<br />
<img src="https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/08/08/VICEaYouTubeb9c5a.png" /></p>
<p>Motherboard/Vice is currently rated as the 88th most visited site in the United States and 174th globally by Alexa rankings.<br />
<img src="https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/08/08/vice.comSiteOverview19e96.png" /><br />
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Vice also has a global reach with the top 5 countries by google rankings (they don't use traffic necessarily it is a complex metric.) being Phillipines, Canada, Pakistan, United States, and Ireland.<br />
<img src="https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/08/08/vicenewsExploreGoogleTrends62743.png" /><br />
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<strong>Explosion of users</strong> <br />
we've already crossed 50,000 users on Steemit, and I expect to see near 75,000 users in two weeks.<br />
<img src="https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/08/08/Steem0be7d.png" /><br />
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<strong>What this means for you<br />
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</strong>As the user base grows it becomes more difficult to stand out. Now is the time to stand out, and start building a brand on the platform. It's not going to be easy, but try hard to find a niche and appeal to the users. I'm excited about the future of the STEEM price as the value grows, and hope more and more own the token so that we can have a smooth movement on the market, and not such jagged ups and downs. Projects like this, if they continue to succeed have a great upside for investors, so consider if it's worth investing. I'm also looking at Bitshares in spare time, with Bitfinex hacked, a decentralized replacement is the best fit. It's from a lot of the same developers so although I left that crowd awhile ago, I'm starting to gain confidence, that maybe profits from Steem and the talent will pull through. We'll need to see openledger and the platform grow and improve. I'm still unclear on that market position.</p>