"Real" one millionth Steemit user & hidden very first "user"

in #statistics6 years ago (edited)

Well, this is my first English posting and not sure who even reads this :) But I'm writing about this memorable finding (at least to me), and also curious if it's worth for me to write some post in english.

Korean version (한글버전은 여기로): https://steemit.com/kr/@blockchainstudio/100-100


Who's real one millionth Steemit user?

While many people including @steemitblog (https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/1-000-000-steem-accounts) and @quo him/herself believe that @xmlvnx is the one millionth Steemit user, I found that there is a hidden very first "user" with id=0 (@miners, see https://steemd.com/@miners) as I expected.

The hidden very first "user"

I think @miners is not so well-known given that I was the second follower (# of followers of the real second "user", @null (id=1) is 1346 as of now). I made a screenshot and sent 0.001SBD for keeping this memory :) I found @miners using steemit python API (http://steem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

Here are some accounts with special numbers.

#usernamecreated
0@miners1970-01-01
1@null
2@temp
3@initminer1970-01-01
4@admin2016-03-24
5@dark
9@administrator
10@dantheman Daniel Larimer
23@steem
28@steemit
99@hunter
100@danea2016-03-24
497@ned Ned Scott2016-03-31
999@drunchpunk2
1000@drunchpunk32016-04-04
9660@steemitblog2016-05-24
9999@styop-avetisyan
10000@onik13182016-05-26
99999@advance1
100000@shasoezseche2016-10-01
999999@quo
1000000@xmlvnx2018-05-16
1000001@xgaming
1000002@vaku
1000003@houdio

users created on 1970-01-01

Surprisingly, up to id=3, i.e., 4th user, they were "created" on 1970-01-01 UTC midnight. As you may know, this is the beginning of unix time. This may be a bug or just intended, since they are for test or special purposes anyway. @admin (id=4) is the first account created on 2016-03-24.

Update: If you wanna consider users created on 1970-01-01 as non-users, the real millionth user is @houdio (with id=1,000,003). Thank @glory7 for pointing out this :)

Daniel Larimer 10th(11th), but Ned 497th?

I think Ned had other previous accounts, but I don't know the history. Please let me know if you know.

Here are some souvenirs :)

@miners

I'm the second follower of @miners! (unless unfollowed again)

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I mainly post in Korean about blockchain. Someday hopefully I'll post in english as well, especially blockchain cartoon. If you're interested, please see follows.

https://steemit.com/@ulockblock
https://facebook.com/ulockblock

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The post has been updated with the correct list now. I also got some other insights. Making a post about it.

Interesting article. Thank you.

But if we assume that accounts that were made on 1970 are not "real" ones, shouldn't we treat 1,000,003th user as the real 1,000,000th user?

Wow, very interesting point! I've updated it. Thanks!

오 신기하네요 ㅋㅋ 스팀잇 출생의 비밀정도 되는군요.

Unix time이라 1970년인것도 처음 알았습니다. 그래서 steemd에서도 기준년도가 그때로 나오는군요.

네 나름 신기하죠?^^ 이참에 unix time 시작 시간도 알게 되셨다니 뿌듯하네요!