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I remember when Mike Hearn bailed out on bitcoin and it cause the price to tank for a bit ...nowadays the game plan for bitcoin is:

When he will have bought what he wants, then, he will let it grow...

It is a stripper I use to know in Houston Tx.

Dear Bernie, Steem is going down and now it is in position 41 on coinmarketcap, even we won Netcoin list and after super HF20, so what next shit?

Next shit Facebook forever!
I don't know why steem is better than facebook. Everyone says so...

Steem is not a competitor of Facebook. Anyone who thinks that is either dumb or lying.

My comment is related on what Bernie wrote about actual situation of Steem coins and facebook do not have any related coin...

if steem is cheeper just buy some more, and then when it will be 100 you may be happy with your decision,
Or you can wait until is back to 1 usd or back to 8 and then buy, and after feel like Crap when it drops back to 0.9 USD :D your decision , when it drops you need to buy and otherwise just shut the fuck up or move to USD or euro

I think the problem is that STEEM has an infinite supply.
There's always more. So, at some point supply > demand.

I think there's only a total of 300,524,315 STEEM. Got this from coinmarketcap

@berniesanders can we stop making @ned the face of S̶t̶e̶e̶m̶i̶t̶ Steem? Why should anything he say be an important factor in the price of Steem? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a decentralized cryptocurrency?

Because he IS the face of Steemit, But Steemit is not the face of Steem.

Except they are, except they aren't, amiright, Mr T?

I think this is what we call optics issues. Or was it marketing issues, or leadership issues, crap, I kinda forget now, but while I may not have the stake of you or NGC or others, I can tell you I've bleed and risked and invested pretty much all of my waking minutes for 19 months and a good bit of my available money to risk and for that input, and effort to keep the place useful (things ive helped build or built alone), helpful (charity on the chain), relevant (endless outside 1-to-1 promotion) and users from leaving daily (community and 1-to-1 teaching, training, personal coaching, convincing users etc) it's cost me as much or more mentally, physically and emotionally for being here as it has anyone.

So yep, I'm a bit bitter and hurt right now by the BS we see from the not-the-leader leader, and let's not even get into synapticad/syncad/pumpkin/freedom "centralization", eh?

sigh

Right. I misspoke. I meant the face of Steem.

Suspenders might do the trick this time.

Suspenders on the CEO = $8 Steem.
Steem logo shaved into CEO = moon.

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the price of steem now makes many people desperate. I looked at all my friends they all looked frustrated and almost all of them stopped operating their accounts.

Starting to see a pattern here. “Big idea” > Hype it like crazy > make money from gullible users/investors > leave it/let it stagnate

See:

Steemit

Bitshares

EOS

etc

@kafkanarchy84. Ya think?

Head down this rabbit hole, and see what you smell...

  1. Szymon Lapinski Aka Gandalf works for http://www.syncad.com
  2. Daniel Notestein aka blocktrades is the founder of http://www.syncad.com
  3. Daniel Notestein and Stan Larimer Could be friends
  4. most of the initial bitshares code is also written by syncad guys
  5. Other folks http://www.syncad.com/Services_Site/aboutus.html
  6. http://www.syncad.com/manateam.htm
  7. https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1466795

Here's just ONE nugget you'll likely find in that quest...

https://fuk.io/exclusive-interview-with-dan-notestein-of-blocktrades/.

So if I get it right these guys are the steem and steemit owners.

I'll say this - this is reporting with sources, conclusions are up the reader ;) But it sure does tell a very compelling story, eh?

Indeed.
Thanks.

And that sort of thing is why my team is called the No Bull witness ;) (@noblewitness)

Frankly, there's a lot more, and I've been sitting on a ton of links and info for while that mostly connect more of the above, but it all came from doing a little homework from those starting points and paying attention around here for quite a while. Nothing is entirely "conclusive" but it sure isn't inconclusive either.

Now think about phrases and cliches around here "bitshares gang" and "preminers" and so on...

Sorry to be depressing, maybe? But some of us are feeling woke and working our way up the witness ladder. We're pretty sure that it's gated at about 30ish though. And controlled from there, clearly by pumpkin/freedom, but that is not the only way they can gate it. Secret slacks...

Well, let's talk about decentralization.
It's a sad situation.
Thanks, again.

This post has received a 20.00% upvote from @jmiller05!

I remember people posting other people's content from other platforms here and making a ton off of it through upvotes. I have enjoyed steemit more since the drop lolol