We are at 605,588 users. According to https://steemd.com/tx/852a5823dbee6cfcdb9ce8a16243052fa111a715
Tooflyhisyd was the most recently created account and when you look at
https://steemd.com/@tooflyhisyd his id number 605,588.
So we are at a little over a half million users not a half billion. The @steem account doesnt have enough currency in it to delegate to that many new accounts.
Edited my post! Thank you for this info. Very valuable! Can't beleive we have so few users. We really are the first adopters. Imagine once it hits 1 million!
We will have troubles hitting the 1million without some changes around the platform. We added 50k accounts thusfar in january and as a result the delegated amount to new accounts was halved from 30Sp in early january to 15SP after January 8. More info here https://steemit.com/witness/@royaleagle/delegated-steem-to-new-minnows-fell-from-30sp-to-15sp-why