just wanted to add that while the price may fluctuate, so long as it's not related to any downvotes, your payout in SP/SBD remains the same.

I generally POWER UP all my posts as well, which means that the STEEM POWER earned on some of my older posts showing 20 cent payouts when STEEM was 10 cents, may now be worth 20 times that due to the recent runup in the price of STEEM.

Of course, that's a long-term "bet" on the viability and growth of the platform, and the opposite would apply if the price of STEEM dumps again. If you'd rather (or need to) take your payouts and "run", that's fine too and the investment aspect wouldn't apply.