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Steemit, Inc., the company behind the open-source steemit.com, a decentralized app on the Steem blockchain, has laid off 70% of its staff amid the ongoing crypto bear market.
Looks like Steemit, Inc. is close to going belly-up and laid off 70% of their staff. How is that even possible when they mined & auto-sold almost 1/3 of the entire token supply over the years?
Must be a blatant case of treasury mismanagement/negligence. https://t.co/Zov3AREyHN— Hasu (@hasufl) November 28, 2018
According to a recent post by Ned Scott, the founder and CEO of Steemit, the company has been forced to consolidate operations and restructure its infrastructure in order to stay afloat.
Scott points to the weakness of the cryptocurrency market, the diminishing fiat returns on their automated selling of STEEM, and the growing costs of running a full Steem node as the major factors prompting this corporate consolidation.
“The remainder of the team is staying on to focus primarily on reducing the costs of the infrastructure running steemit.com and our public APIs, and ensuring that the community can remain informed of developments,” Scott said.
Scott reveals that he has no intention to abandon the cryptocurrency market, and plans to prioritize cost reduction solutions in the near term, including pitchforking Steem to prune the chain state size from 160gb to 0gb.
This news comes roughly 7 months after Steemit revealed that its blockchain had recently surpassed one million registered accounts. Steemit.com had around 250,000 unique daily visitors at that time. Ultimately, many on social media are calling out Steemit for treasury mismanagement given its large pre-mine and scheduled automated STEEM selling.
STEEM is currently up 13.2% on the day to $0.357 despite the bad news, giving the 48th largest cryptocurrency a still-respectable market cap of $107.3 million that seems to raise further questions about how a social network with under 300k DAUs could burn through tens of millions of dollars so rapidly.
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