Steem Down Again

in #steem9 years ago

Steem is right now at $0.85

A few weeks back I posted something about why Steem kept moving up and down according to the movements of Bitcoin, well somebody answered me something like this "easy-peasy" Bitcoin is tied to the USD and all alt coins are tied to Bitcoin so when Bitcoin moves in regards to the dollar all alt coins will also move in the same fashion. Which was OK at the moment because it was what was happening, even though I still thought it strange that Steem which is locked for 13 weeks should show about the same pattern as the others.

Now it apparently isn't so much that alt coins are tied to Bitcoin but that Bitcoin just has so much power that people will sell all their alt coins, regardless of the ridiculous price they are fetching right now to be able to buy Bitcoin which is at a ridiculously high price. Ok, they want a cut of the Segwit hard fork, but just think this thing through they are selling their alt coins at a huge loss in order to buy a coin which is at a very high price, will they really make a profit?

I'll tell you something the ones who invest a lot are going to make a profit, but I'm talking about the guys who can buy at least a million dollars worth of Bitcoin, and then once they take a profit off of the hard fork they can turn around and buy any other alt coin at maybe a quarter of the price at which it was at one or two months ago, so they can catch two birds at the same time profit from the hard fork and profit from the low price of alt-coins.

Now I have read a lot of guys here making predictions based on something called elliot waves, if these elliot waves were such a big deal nobody on Wall Street would lose money, you have to understand something, every time a market falls or rises it is through the movement of money, and the people who have a lot of money are the ones who are going to reap the profits not the guys who are following some wave.

Markets are run by people not by scientific theories if some huge whale decides to dump an alt coin that coins price is going down regardless of what is happening with Bitcoin or any other extraneous event. So I would think if people don't want Steem to fall to where it was in March and April stop selling your Steem to buy Bitcoin unless you are a huge whale and can buy a million dollars worth of BTC otherwise the only thing you are doing is helping drive the price of Steem down.

I really thought Steemfest would help Steem' price go up but it looks like greed has taken over and common sense has just disappeared. Fine thing for me to say, I am powering down, but frankly I was powering down before this thing started, and I am doing it because I need a few dollars, after I am through I am back to hoarding Steem.

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Steem Now is showing a price of $0.95?

Although Bitcoin and Altcoins are currency they appear to be more of a stock commodity because they are finite like a common stock.

Right now it appears everyone is riding the Bitcoin train which will eventually stop and when it does investors will get off, take their profits and look for somewhere else to put their investment.

I think they will use the same logic as investors in the stock market. Look for altcoins with strong management attached to a product or service people will want to buy.

Is Steem Now incorrect on the price?

I think the price is just where the investors (the big ones) want it to be.

There is always that possibility. That's how JP Morgan made his fortune.

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One thing I don't get, this segwit, will it be part of the finite 21 million Bitcoins or is it something completely new with it's own number of mine-able coins?

oh it's something different. The fork (may) remove the ceiling on the number of new coins mined.
See here and here

I'm upset with the decline in the price of Steem too. Very much so. I had plans, which might have to be put on hold.

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