Why is the price of STEEM running up?

The overall crypto market has been picking up a lot of steam recently (pun intended). Is STEEM just following along or is there something bigger afoot.

The price of STEEM is up 50% over the last week and over 20% in the last 12 hours alone.

Does anyone have any ideas? Can we keep this going and make all our hard work keep paying off?

Let's ride this one to the MOON as the kids say.

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