This announcement was made last November, I'm not quite sure why it's resurfacing now (though I welcome it!), but there's been a substantial amount of trade on

This announcement was made last November, I'm not quite sure why it's resurfacing now (though I welcome it!), but there's been a substantial amount of trade on the platform since it began. I've been running the swag store and we've sold hundreds of tshirts, pins, stickers, etc. But I always get excited when a merchant reaches out and tells us about the sales they've gotten. No question that it doesn't even have a small fraction of the users of major platforms, we've got a long way to go. But there have been about 42,000 unique nodes on the network since Nov 2017, and I'm pretty happy with that number. It's a fairly radical proposal to have people run their own store on their own computer, but there are at least that many people in the world willing to do it. Just wait until the mobile app and the browser client are finished!