What do you think caused that blip in account creation was in early 2023 ?

I've always felt that blockchain is a technology looking for its application/use, when it really hits, it will fly.

An example that I like to draw parallels with is Genomics, it is massive now, a huge industry, but it all started with a chance discovery during a routine ecological survey in Yellowstone in 1976, when some curious researcher found bacteria living in the hot springs and decided to look at their heat resistant polymerase enzymes ( enzymes that break down and build up DNA), fast forward a few years and these enzymes formed the technology that enables PCR, genetic fingerprinting ( first used to solve a crime in Leicester, UK in 1986) and then WHAM!!!, a whole field of scientific research ( and industry) opened up like a lotus flower.

Crypto feels like that to me, and maybe gaming will be the use case, after all gaming attracts more money than music and sport combined.

I do believe that Splinterlands has led the way here, the TCG/NFT crossover was so logical and solved several fundamental issues that the tech just had to be used.

Lets see what we see, the challenge for a Gen X'er like me, is learning, understanding and keeping up with the tech. Crypto is very bad at explaining itself!! Games help provide the incentive to learn and the community to help.