I saw the same thing happening this morning, and I bought another $500 dollars worth of Steem at $2 dollars. There is no way that the number of users is not going to explode after HF19. Just think how lucrative it is to sign up and only comment and curate.Let alone, write good content and get rewarded for it. You can put $1,000 dollars into SP and upvote your own comments $10 dollars every day in total if you wantd to. That's 1% per day. Shits about to hit the fan and soon. I have been trying to get many friends into steemit in the last month, today after telling them how much I was making, got 2 to sign up. I know I can get 10 more, and thats just me. Now multiply that by... i dunno... a shit ton!