There are some serious positives that go with this @mindtrap. First the relatively cheap cost is coiling the spring back even harder so when there is a jump, which I am fairly certain there will be at some point, maybe even soon. Looking at the coinmarketcap rankings I see new coins, but a lot of the same ideas packaged in different wrapping with a gimmick here or a gimmick there. I am certainly not a steem maximalist but see there being amazing potential in steem especially since the release of the steem-engine alt chains of steemit that are consolidating communities, making our statuses more reflective of in a micro environment versus doing "the tethered swimming routine" as before. Second, steem is still and very likely will be the go to reserve currency for these new altchains, which are at a point places like facebook are trying to get to and we are already there and continually breaking ground on more. The bottom line is the value being added here on all that encompasses steem based networks that are growing by the day is light years more great in my opinion than there ever has been any kind of value added to this platform and steem itself. I would say keep your head up, the best kept secret that is comically undervalued should not stay that way much longer. Pump and dump schemes are passing steem at the moment, along many other projects that have far less staying power and are getting pumped to a degree purposely, only to fall sooner than later. This place is developing quickly into what the other social networks looking to tokenize their communities are hoping to do, so we truly are in bewildering position when you consider value being created here has never been more consequential and steem is record lows for its trading value to BTC. Something is going to give.