Oh yes they are! Bitcoin is the gateway drug also to many altcoins!
But steem has a secret weapon of advertising, we will never had separate ads because they cannot be programmed into very steem explorer lik if steemit.com adds ads then u could just use @chainbb or busy.org so the REAL way to advertise on steemit if ur an advertiser and u want to reach this many people, is u buy steempower and make a post and self upvote it to the top (or use multipl seperate acounts to make it seem like the main account built up many followers all having a pice of teh steempower ur buying, so u can get ur posts to the front page of trending all the time, but for on ad, u can buy steempower, either use the PROMOTE featue OR you can just UPVOTE it YOURSELF using the steempower you had to buy to get it to the top!

This would force the price of steem up if peopel had to buy steempower!

Look facebook is 200 billion marketcap, so social media CAn become a machine that generates hudnerds of billions! Steem is around 200 to 300 million dollars marketcap (has gone to 70 million this year before so its close to 1 billion) and since facebook can get to 200 billion, WE can go from 200 million 41 stem to 200 BILLION $1000 stem! its no problem for steem to go up 1000 times! For bitcoin to go up 1000 times it would need to be worth something like 70 trillion Us dollars but bitcoin woul be around 4 million U dollars per BTC, thisis TOTALLY possible! 70 trillion is NOT that big for a GLOBAl asset class! the GLOBAl fiat money supply is probobly MORE than 60 trillion! The Rothschild and Rockefelrs are estimated to have around 200 and 400 trillion US dollars worth of "dark wealth" hidden secret wealth in teh form of real estate and companies under other people's names etc....derivativs market is estimated to be in the Quadrillions...maybe half a quadrillion but maybe 5 quadrillion because 5 quadrillion is a VERY special number....it is the Estimate of ho much everything on the planet earth is worth, and so it makes sense for the global banking elite to simply LEVERGE the ENTIRE PLANET that they belive they won, and cash in on it using dervivatives!

I also heard the Japanese Forex market is a "200 trillion dollar market" so its safe to assume there are MOR than 60 trllion US dollars worth of assets on the planet, and remember, you dont need to use CASH to buy Bitcoins...you can sell a HOUSE for bitcoin...you can sell OIL or GOLD for bitcoin....its estimated that about 250 trillion dollars worth of Business Assets exist on earth and also about 250 trillion us dollars worth of REAL state exists on this planet...together thats half a Quadrillion US dollars worth o stuf right there! and thats all stuf peopel can exchange and sell and buy, I hopeyoure all starting to see the bigger picture because i am i had to write this all down just to understand it myself!

5 quadrillion dollars is total wealth estimated to be on earth, which means oil or gold that is YET to b extracted! But once it IS extracted, for example Oil, you sell for dollars now but soon oil will be sold for bitcoin, this will allow Bitcoin to not just be bought with Fiat paper dollars but also OIL, and then GOLD will come out of the groudn and b used, man noo e will even use the US dollar anymore, why would you? And the governments will try to use force of course IF theyre stupid

I HOPE they get wise and start buying BTC now, bcause the global banking cartel will get SO butthurt when they realize people will be using bitcoin to buy Oil and Gold that Im afraid of what theyll do! Its why i hopethey juisyt buy some bitcoin nw so thre isnt some violent power struggle when bitcoin si so valuable that we are able to buy up all their companies and assets

Anyway my frind @uncerntropy gave me the idea that the US government and central banks and federal reserve etc wants people to buy Bitcoin but they dont want people to take money out of stocks to buy it, they want people to sell silvr and Gold to buy their bitcoin! 9Thus further hlping to push down gol and silver LOL but I know godl and silver are a bad investment because of the fact the FACT that we are going to be mining gold and platinum and silver from ASTEROIDS which will have SO much gold theyl inflate the gold supply uintill gold is $100 an ounce! It will still be valuable and used in lectronics medicine etc but wont be a good store of value or invstment! I am not even convinced now that gold or silvr is even manipulated, i think were just mining more gold than peopel want to buy and its supply and demand! Gold and silvr bugs just get mad that they bet on the wrong hporse and could have become millionaires by now with bitcoin, but they retreat into this weird spiritual love of the metal istefl, asif they dont CARE about the price not going up anymore, they like it for the HISTORY or something which is all just a coping mechanism o comfort thmselvs for making a bad invsment decision! Yes gold has ben used for 6000+ years as solid money...but guess what? They idnt have the internet and computrs for 6000 years...untill juyst now...so yeah things are all different now....its not the last 6000 years...peopel have done a lot of stupid things for 600 years as well....theres plenty of things people do for thousands of years andit doesnt mean its a sign of 'stability:" or anything but hey go ahead buy gold and ignore the MASSIVE gains in bitcoin

the fact that peopel hold gold when you can sell uit and buy bitcoin, its crazy! its just scizophrenic to be an investor and claim u ant to make money and then prupsoefully LOOSE money just to hold gold bcause its "tangible"
what if we are in a siimulation and we wake up to find out the ONLY real "tangible" money in our livs AT ALL wasthe Bitcoin and steem and crypto currency that was all backed up my our simulation game masters, and whoever had BITCOIN in their simulated life, will have it OUTSIDEtyhe simulation while ALL that "physical" gold or ral estate was ALL just fake 0s and 1s inside a computer simulation, and ONLY the bitcoin was real! hahaha everything would be flipped! And honstly thats how it is! the "physical" paper fiat money is FAKE and the "imaginary" non physical "untangible" bitcoin is the REAl money!

Anyway my friend @uncerntropy writes about the fed and godl and the real plan to simply get people to have to always cash out of bitcoin to spend them! they dontw ant people buying bitcoins by selling stocks! and they will have to eevntualy allow people to buy stocks directly with bitcoin and phase the dollar piut and repolace it WITH bitcoin or a similar crypto currency