I think that this little hiccup might be a very good buying opportunity for us :) Once its fixed the price of STEEM should shoot back up!

I agree with everything you are saying. I think a major issue holding steem back is the hoops you have to jump through to actually buy steem. A very simple process within the steem world needs to exist for purchasing. It's no problem for people like you and me that understand the crypto world but the average person faces a learning curve.

hey buddy. @elfsplice has some theories concerning the maintenance. TL;DR he says the code of Steemit is hard to handle for many exchange sites so they drop/disable Steem.

The Steem devs claim @elfspice is just spreading FUD and their is nothing true about it.... Yeah the lack of clarity truly is a problem.

I'd give up on Poloniex.

Try using Bittrex, Livecoin or HitBTC to buy and sell steem. As long as Polo is the main source of trading and the wallet of closed, steem is stuffed. We really need to ensure the other exchanges gain volume.

Hey that's what happens when you try to  isolate 90% of the users with  false flags allowing the rigged accounts to get richer.

I've been buying on the dips on bittrex lately. I believe in the steemit project so I am hoping that I can accumulate an extra bit of steempower before the next run up. It's been a tough market all around though for alt-coins because the rapid run up in BTC is destabilizing alt-coin values in relation to BTC. I have been doing more trading in ltc and doge base markets on other platforms to minimize the difference in BTC volatility. While I love speculators increasing the BTC value, a stable BTC price makes for better trading opportunities in alt-coins.

Google Trend charts from past 12 months:

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Bitcoin, Litcoin | Steemit, Myspace | Steemit, Steem

I'm not saying this to go against Steemit, I mean I am a believer in it having about 7,000 steem in total. I didn't even sell the Steem I have on Bittrex yet just because I know it can hit the 60s or 70s eventually. But dang.. if we had more clarity I'd really appreciate it

Well one of the major possible reasons is how the current power down system has a massive influence on the price of steem. I wrote a post a few days about this and am confronting the people involved.
Why they went for 13 weeks is still a mystery to me.

https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/final-review-of-steem-economic-changes




https://steemit.com/steemit/@oudekaas/why-powering-down-could-end-up-in-shutting-down

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awesome!

Hi @avilsd,   My apologies right away, my intent was to try emailing you but I'm still learning at the moment and I don't know a way to contact you directly.   I noticed that you voted down a post I made recently pretty heavily.    I just started recording my journey pretty recently and I was curious about the down vote.    My wish is to avoid causing any issues in the community with anything I decide to share.   I generally using steemit in sort of a journal format so I feel its likely I could run into the same issue again and I'd rather avoid it.   I just like sharing.

Any advice you could give would be awesome and helpful.

Thank you for your time! :D

Hello, we need that polo resurrect for get ours bitcoin cash pending, and continue making trading with them but with more precaution about the volume of money in btc on the plataform

Now is close to 4k the BTC, it's insane the market.