Hi @intellihandling , it would have really been helpful if one knows your long term goal. Because if you believe that Steem is heading in the right direction the you'll forget about the short-term stagnant nature of Steem and look at the future. Example, can steem get to $2 in a years time? If yes 0.35 to $2 what is the percentage growth? Can Bitcoin get to $20,000? If yes 7k to 20k what is the percentage growth? Then you consider which of the 2 situation will pay you more. These are all speculative stuff for we really don't which way things will pan out. The important thing to consider is if you're happy doing what you're doing. If you're happy at Steem then the short term price shouldn't really bother you.

As regard whether to buy Steem and power up which gives you 490+ of you own Steem or lease SP which offers 4634+ SP but limited to just 90 days. In my opinion going the first way means your current upvote value is barely worth up to $0.01, while the second option offers an upvote of about $0.09. I'll say go 50/50. The reason for this is that is you really optimize the use of your leased SP (Not selling of voters) you could get more Steem at the end of the day. Steem-bounty offers vote exchange services and hiving a high SP offers you a better upvote deal than selling of votes with a great cut. Connecting with people and communities were you upvote to them is reciprocated with even a higher upvote, but you have to be very engaging for all these to work. Leasing SP and relaxing is a wrong mix. That is my 2 cents contribution. Cheers.