I believe McAfee did a analysis year by year and predicted such rise as pattern.. but can't find the source to it. We as human love patterns but often they mislead us because correlation must not be causation. But i believe in a typical cycle of business year with specific money flows which is normal and natural.

I don't know the impact of SMT's but if is adopted like intended it could be huge intake for Steem. Interesting many hodl Bitcoin and Ethereum. I use ETH only for exchange or investing currently and holding a smaller amount of BTC. But that may change.