You're at 35K, seriously not that far at all. Good luck achieving your goal.
I'm 100% sold on the fact that we need a robust core community of devs (and I think we already have that), now we need to move a part of these efforts & funding to marketing & token appreciation mechanisms.
IMHO, I would be more than happy to fund a proposal to help leaders like @nathanmars to keep spreading the word outside of HIVE.
If we stay in our echo chamber we have nothing to do.
We need to show twitter & the world why they need the Hive blockchain.
Have a good day.
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