Steem tales - welcome investors, old and new

I got a great price for the STEEM I bought back in May 2017. Who's buying this week? I hope you have the same feeling in a years time.

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I'd never bought any crypto before, and I almost gave up back then when this strange phone application wanted to verify me with a phone/video call. STEEM was 20/30 cents then, but the call didn't work and I gave up until finding Coinbase a week or two later. STEEM had moved to 50/60 cents by that point, but I managed to buy a little via Coinbase and @blocktrades and of course, powered it up.

Not too long after that, I bought a little more, and a little more, and then STEEM took off to $1.80. Everything I had was powered up, but that didn't worry me because I had no plans to cash-out. Then the price fell and fluctuated around a dollar. I remember the price being pretty 'bouncy', and I bought a few more times when it dipped under the dollar - this happened for most of the 2nd half of the year, but as Bitcoin was rising and the other alts too, I was pretty hopeful that STEEM would have it's day.

And STEEM definitely had its day (and month) in January this year.

As an aside, I notice that a fair few of the people that interact with me have accounts dating back to the start of the year. I'm glad you guys haven't thrown in the towel following this year long downward trend. Respect!

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Buy/Sell/Hold/Go for a walk

This week has been particularly rough for crypto investors though, and so I decided to take a walk today and do other things away from the space. The photo above is the beach at the bottom of the road. There are no lifeguards this time of year, but the SOS sign is there for all to see. Did it remind me of 'here'? Yup!

Anyway, the STEEM I bought, and the STEEM I have earned through blogging/vlogging and the like, has almost all been powered up. I took some SBD off the table in at the start of the year, and have only been selling small chunks of both intermittently - in cases where I've felt like something other than pasta pesto for tea. This powered up STEEM has been used to vote the content I like, and the people that have shown me something of value. Steem Power also works as a magnet, attracting curation rewards and reciprocal voters, and these are the reasons that I think I have gotten great value from my STEEM (Power), even though the price is 10/20 cents lower than my lowest buy.

This is what I like about Steem Power, it's still working for you even though the price is falling - I hold a couple of stocks at a sizable loss and they are doing nothing for me!

A few people have contacted me in the last few days staying they've bought 'some', and I know @exyle is buying a little each day - sticking to his policy of smaller buys which mitigates risk somewhat. A lot of people have been converting SBD to STEEM too, and at around 1 SBD to 2 STEEM, why the hell not! I'm low on SBD and so that's not really been an option, the fridge is full for the week though and so that's good enough for me.

It pleases me to find out that people are investing in Steem, and to those who are in a position to buy or convert SBD/STEEM, I wish you well, and I hope your investment starts paying dividends soon - 'cause that will mean my investment is too :)

Let me know if you've been buying today, so I can spy on your wallet give you a little up-vote of appreciation - good luck!

Cheers

Asher