[supernumerary]

steem scales, 1 million transactions as 7 day average. http://www.blocktivity.info/ as of today...

[thephyber]

Perhaps, but does the size of the blockchain (data and network bandwidth) scale as well?

Here's[1] a rough estimate of the growth of data on Steem.

[1] https://steemit.com/steem/@crokkon/steem-blockchain-size#@bl...

[astrodust]

What, you don't want your crypto client to need multiple 8TB drives just to boot up?