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RE: Let's talk about investing on Steem.
A lot of the discussion around putting money into Steem focuses on "investors," but mostly they aren't really investors as I understand the term, they're at best speculators or lenders. People who show up, delegate to a service for a return, and in one way or another sell off their stake rewards aren't investing. People who buy Steem hoping that it will increase in value aren't investing.An investor is someone who puts capital into a project in hopes that it will create value.
This is what I've been saying. Steem needs fiat injected into it. For that to happen, there need to be compelling reasons to do that. Those reasons involve real-world value creation.
Meanwhile steem doesn't have even a A-class fiat to steem exchange.
That would be important for liquidity and probably help fuel speculation, too. Steem needs more apps with real world use cases the users of which want to pay fiat to get STEEM to pay for services provided by the apps. On DLive, there is a gifting functionality that looks good. That's exactly what is needed. The (hopefully) onboarding masses will have very little value in their SP. If they want to reward their favourite content producers in any meaningful way, they will have to do it by gifting, which is exactly what this platform needs because in order to gift someone with STEEM you need to buy STEEM in the first place.