Total market cap broke through the 120 billion ceiling.
SegWit is getting locked in.
Even part of the mainstream media is getting Bitcoin excited.
Sadly Steem is staying behind.
Well, if BTC would go to an new All Time High {ATH} then why not burst right on through towards 3500 US Dollar per Bitcoin? And I guess the cryptocurrency market has decided what path to support for Bitcoin. SegWit did not even fully get locked in, it is still more than 8 hours from the point of writing this post. Overhere it will be at about 21:00 hours CEST when it finally happens. What to expect? Somewhere I wrote about the cryptos market getting past the 120 billion mark, but I was expecting it to go a bit differently back then. At least if I remember correctly, I predicted big gains for Litecoin and Steem. Both did not happen and to me the current market price for Steem is way too low. Up to a point where I think, marketwise, it is heavily undervalued. Just like Litecoin is.
For Steem to be one of the blockchains systems that do matter in the cryptos realm it has to be way up higher in the list. Though it might just be that it can gain quite a lot in the days ahead, as I think it should. The same accounts for Litecoin, I think. That one should have been at more than a 100 $ per LTC already. And Steem should be well on its way to 12 US Dollar. Yet, that is all about speculation and the market does often prefers things that are different than the best there can be. Steem, like Bitshares and soon EOS, might be the best blockchain technology available, but that does not mean the cryptos market will follow the lead. It is a very unpredictable market though, one minute it is down to 67 billion, next it is between 85 and 97, next moment it goes trough the earlier expected ceiling of 120.
Steem should break through now.
It looks like Steem can actually get some of the new investments coming into the cryptos market. It might even go up fast in the couple of hours to come. So even though it is undervalued, this soon might be corrected with an the upwards movement in value. Right now the good news for Steem is that its developement is going towards multithreading and multitasking. This just means that Steem will get ahead of EOS a bit already. Where blockchain technology originally was designed for single core processors, Steem now moves forward fast, by going multi-core. To simplify this, a lot, imagine yourself doing a huge job all by yourself. Catering a group of a thousand people, where your first thought it would be 30. And you have 7 others standing by, but you are unable to make them understand how to work with you on this. But then you understand how to share some of this enormous task to the other 7. And hey, the 1000 people can be served in a way they expect.
And to even lighten the task ahead Steem is going to spread some tasks out over special plugins. Which is also a part of EOS, by the way. But that is because the technlogy is all coming from the same roots: the mind of developer Daniel Larimer. Steem already moved on from Graphene to the more effective Chainbase and now will be using Plugins more intensively. Spreading tasks, will make it easier for Steem to operate fast, scale smoothly and be ready for more members that post more. Many of these developements are going back and forth from EOS, to Steem to Bitshares and in any other order. That is the great thing of them being one big blockchain family. Innovation is needed for Steem to keep it running as it is expected and wanted. It is far more easy to destroy something than to build and improve it. Communicating about future developements is very important, as that is part of the needed trust for Steem to be able move forward.
Next ceiling?
Well, no clue, 150 billion, just popped into my mind. And part of that has to be for Steem, as it still needs to get to that 12 $ ceiling. And maybe we can witness a big jump in just a few hours, moving up more in the days ahead. Just like I am expecting for Litecoin to burst through the 100 USD ceiling in a few days. In the meantime it was good to read a post from the Steem Developement team about the upcoming improvements, like multithreading and multitasking. There are many changes ahead and as far as I can see, they will be good ones. Yet remember, only invest in cryptos what you are willing and able to lose. Also your speculation might be as bad or as good as mine.
One thing is sure though, the cryptos realm is full of excitment and there is always something new to explore. And just when somebody declares it for dead again, it will move on to suprise humanity with yet another ceiling broken. For me it has been a rollarcoaster ride so far and I am still having a big smile on my face! And for the Steem multithread innovation I would state, in line with the Star Trek Enterprise Next Generation Captain Jean Luc Picard: "Make it so! Lay in a course and set for lightspeed... Encrypt!"
Have a great one!
Steem to 12 USD value soon?
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Congrats you all!
Idem dito!
We are going straight to $200B by the end of the year :)
https://steemit.com/bitcoincash/@hotsauceislethal/bitcoincash-price-forecast-8-7-2017
And 1 trillion in 2018! =D
My eyes opened wide with that $12 Steem. That is juicy. ;)
Now that would be quite awesome when that happened! =D
Thanks for the insight, I hope you are right!
You are welcome, I do hope so too!
mag ik het hopen dat steem in $ per eenheid stijgt
Die hoop deel ik.
denk velen van ons hahahha
Inderdaad, hahaha.
Stupid question what is that 12 usd "ceiling" based on? It seems there are many arbitrary numbers called out all the time, looks more like astrology sometimes...
Those who dare to ask questions are to be considered to be smart. ;-)
Well, it is like a gamble, but in economics it is called speculation. So this stating that Steem should be going towards the 12 USD ceiling and then beyond, it speculation.
It is based on the expected growth of the cryptocurrency markt overall. And that because Steem has value because of all the posts that are on its blockchain, it should gain in value.
Looking at the total market capital Steem has, 238 million, it still is somewhat undervalued. Looking at the price of cryptos like Ethereum in relation to that, 120 USD per Steem could even be possible.
But, that might be a little bit to optimistic for the short term, as the Steem system still has some challenges to be solved. But, with current 1 percent of the potential value, it is still very much undervalued.
That is from the point of view where I think the content that is on the Steem blockchain actually gives it more value than the current 1.33 USD would suggest.
So, 12 USD would be 10% of its possible potential, but that is also speculation, as in cryptos nothing is carved in stone.
I find it a great space because there is so little reference to determine value. How valuable is a post? How valuable is a user? Do bot user accounts damage that?
I still find Steemit a great experiment but I am reading some critisisms that don't seem to be addressed in a particularly constructive manner. Have you seen @elfspice ( now known as @calibrae ) he is claiming that the growth rate of the blockchain is unsustainable and predicts that the witnessess can't keep up the hardware requirements and in a few months there is no way it will still work... he is forking steemit which will also be interesting to see how that goes. It will help to see what makes this thing valuable... is it the Steemit.com name (top 3000 site now I believe) is it the concept? Is it the community? Is it the value of Steem ? Is it because it is on a blockchain?
To me it seems that the whole earning aspect is a bit of a distraction... your article on competition was very good. What happens if the tokens don't have monetary value? Post fork I assume that is what would happen. Would be great to see what kind of trending posts there will be on a forked steem without whales. (I believe that is the plan to take away the socalled premine SP but otherwise clone the userbase ) interesting times...
To determine the value of something is quite difficult. It is the value though, I think, that people will give to it. That does only mean in many situations that a group of people agree on something. Still writing of interest to a few can still be very valuable, without there being a money label attached to it.
It is relative, in that manner Steem is interesting too. What are bots having for an influence or automated voting. Steem can only move on, I think if it holds monetary value, as it is build to function that way.
This leads me to the concerns that some have casted recently.
One thing for me in relation to blockchain developement is an unsolved part, that I see from my point of view. That is that I think that nothing can ever grow for ever. This is the case for any blockchain. Not Steem specific, but that one has quite some data growth over a short amount of time to deal with.
As long as there are witnesses that can put in 256 GigaByte of RAM, when only 128GB is needed, Steem will move on smoothly. Part of the challenge is the website and that is getting more relief by putting more server power behind it. Also the Steem Developement Team is working on multithreading, which is a very big step forward. (Moving towards what #EOS is going to be.)
But, a blockchain system like Steem does need a lot of resources and the pace at which it needs that should be less than technology inovations. By that I mean that as long as Steem needs 128 GigaByte RAM and technology can deliver 1 TeraByte RAM, then it will be just fine.
In that way Steem has a bigger technology challenge than Bitcoin or Litecoin. But with sidechains on those blockchains that might change in the near future. At some point blockchain technology try to solve scaling, by the need for purging, when technology demands it. Then most of the time, a solution will be found.
So I am a bit sceptical to the clame that witnesses can not keep up with the blockchain growth speed of Steem. As far as I see it, the current challenge lies in the website interface, being able to keep up with the pace. And that is being worked on.
Calibrae can be a forked version of Steem that has a different approach. That project might even some things that get backported into Steem. It can be very refreshing to have a different point of view, there are often many solutions thinkable to the same challenge.
So, exciting times ahead, that is for sure.
Yes I think so, it will be great to see a different variation. I agree as well that from a user perspective, the interface is a huge hurdle, as it currently is becoming hard work to find the relevant stuff to you. The growth in users and diversity of topics is great but needs to be tamed into something manageable for users. I actually was wondering about the filterbubble problem. Facebook shows you stuff that they think you should see, which has its issues. I would love a handy way to define my own filterbubble: a few levers that allow sophisticated filters on topics, keywords, authors, communities.
It would be great if the platform could have a standard filter built in that allows me to see when several of people I follow voted for the same post for instance. That might be an interesting trigger to serve that post for my viewing, it would be a variation on curation, allowing you to build your feed based on not all the upvotes of everyone which is what the current trending and hot pages are and which are pretty useless. I would like a feed of top posts voted by people I follow, whose taste I trust (maybe that needs to be a sub list).
Basically it's a sophisticated filter but I don't know how difficult that would be to make or how heavy it would be if it would need to constantly query the blockchain .
That would be a welcome addition I think, a filter, maybe one that works on the user side. Your browser getting the same data and there it gets filtered.
Would like a seperate tab for ReSteems too, the homefeed gets so filled up with those. And then the browser side filter, or something like that.
The build in Google search sometimes helps, but it is far from idealistic.