good post
i upvote you upvote me on
https://steemit.com/football/@talha/i-love-to-play-football-match

One day there will be millions of people on Steemit and we'll miss these auspicious if humble days of cheap steem. But it'll be another new thing to explore, and we know how much Steemians love NEW :) 

It's been and will continue to be a fun ride !

Good information! Keep it up.

> I am giddy over here, knowing that I may have stumbled across another opportunity of a lifetime.

🎉 👍
You are absolutely right! Thanks for the mention Randy!

Inspiring stuff. Thanks for the post. I hadn't connected the dots myself on the hard fork and the price drop due to increased power downs.

Nice post, stay positive and you will be rewarded. I am confident we are all apart of something very special here. We need to all play our role in letting people know of their options in regards to alternatives to Facebook, Reddit, Twitter. Soon when we start hosting our own video/photo content we can be a reliable alternative to services like Instagram,Imgr, Youtube etc...our servers should be as protected as possible and free from censorship or governments. Down the road when the best option presents itself we should move towards decentralization of our servers. But lets take it one step at a time yes? @ned @dantheman what do you guys think in regards to this?

Tweeted on @RandyHilarski
https://twitter.com/RandyHilarski/status/811618811459858433

I'm not going anywhere but I needed some dates I could hang on to.
Your analysis pointing March-April seems good.
thanks

Great article Randy! We share the exact same sentiment regarding Steem. I'm also a buyer at the moment! I loved talking to you and you wife on that boat! Steemit is great and I'm giddy about it too! These prices are a dream.

Thats the plan Randy..buy steem. What happens with power down after April?

I'm comfortable holding Steem, great buy-in right now for real. Soon you'll see it explode in price with exposure. People want something new on social platforms (Steemit), this seems to be it in my opinion. I'll keep buying, and start switching over to Steemit. Lot's of great blogs. You guys have a great Christmas!

YES :)

I was just talking about the price in steemit chat.

This is how I've been thinking about it. Who wants to be the next speculator to buy in at $4 and see it go to $0.13? By the same logic, why buy at $0.13 when you _might_ be able to buy later at $0.01 or lower?

I think this thing has a great future and my first purchase was around $0.28. I bought a lot more at $1.00. I feel more confident about this platform now than I did then. I have a bit of SBD ready to buy more once the price stops going down. The reasons I don't buy now at $0.13 isn't because I don't think there is value, I'm just wanting to be smart about it and get as much value as possible for my purchase. There could be many others in the same boat, just waiting things out. I think it's why people like Charlie Shem are powering down as well. He mentioned he would buy on the lows and sell on the highs. Right now may be a local high if we're heading towards $0.01 prices. Even then, would you buy at $0.01 if there's a chance you could buy later at $0.005? That said, once the downward trend stops, I also think it could shoot up very quickly as those who see the value rush to get back in.

From my perspective, the downward pressure isn't as big as I expected. Not all of the whales are powering down. In a way, the price isn't low enough.

https://i.imgflip.com/1gdccm.jpg

Prediction: Hilarski will be a Steemit titan

You are 100% on point in this article. I am stoked to see what happens in the market.

I think Steem is an incredible opportunity and I'm really excited about the potential I see. I would say that Bitcoin shares similar merits between physical gold and silver...Gold like bitcoin is a certain standard for protecting wealth that people are use to but there's way more potential in physical silver and I feel the same about Steem.

Great piece as always. Thanks for sharing. Upvoted and shared on [Twitter✔](https://twitter.com/StephenPKendal) for my followers to see. Stephen

https://twitter.com/StephenPKendal/status/811637411616792580

>The idea that the inflation of Steem was dropping so much clouded my mind to what would happen when the power down was also decreased. 

One of the things thats important to remember is that inflation of m2 (actual spendable money)  has a far greater effect on the value of money than inflation of m4 (total money supply).

When we decreased powerdown time, we actually increased m2 inflation and decreased m4 inflation, at least in the short term.

In the long term, we are decreasing both.  Because had we continued to hyperinflate non spendable  m4 (sp balances), eventually that would have spilled over into higher m2.  the chart posted by steemit blog shows the worst case scenario for HF16 m2 vs non-HF16 m2.

https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/347290/20433961/d0c5d2ec-ad73-11e6-9a7d-6da2f513fdab.png

The blue line is "liquid steem" as it would have increased with no HF16.  The green line is sort of a worst case scenario for HF16 liquid steem supply (it assumes everyone powers down as fast as they possibly can).  The reality of the liquid supply after HF16 is a line the same shape as the green line, but shifted downward somewhat.

The pount where the blue and green lines converge is the worst cast scenario for when HF 16 liquid money supply will be less than it would have been had we stayed with HF15.

It looks like about 18 months on the chart, but thats a worst case.. obviously as the green line shifts down, convergence comes earlier.

https://i.imgsafe.org/ada7ae4bcf.jpg

Giddy up

I agree 100%. This is our chance to shine!

I feel similarly to you, I just do not know as much about this  whole space as you but from what I DO know, I see things headed similarly to what you described.  

Sorry I did not catch this y-day.   Good post.

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