Not a bad idea. Right now, it's more of just watching the trends and seeing what makes sense. When things spike too quickly in one direction or the other, it usually adjusts somewhat closer back to what it had been prior to that (for the most part).

But it's been going down on the long term trend for quite some time now. Will that reverse? I don't know.

I would learn by reading that stuff, this I know.

Thanks. :)

Curation on Golos? Interesting. You have a bot voting up random stuff or do you know Russian?

The inflation is pretty non-existent at this point, unfortunately. Maybe that's for the best though as things were getting out of control.

If I ever get my BTC investments out so I could play with house money, that would be great. I'm kind of doubtful that will happen any time soon though.

Sounds good to me.

I remember when 100 STEEM was quite a bit. Now it's about enough to buy lunch. heheh. How far we've come. Power that stuff up!

I was working through my crypto tax stuff and looked at my STEEM purchase amounts for 2016. Quite a discouraging loss there. It may look like a waste of BTC, but I've certainly enjoyed the community here, so it's not a total loss... yet. :)

If the price goes back up, I'll feel like a genius.

I probably won't be able to fly though, unless I can buy a plane with my STEEM winnings. :)

Sounds like a great plan to me. Maybe we can do it on our own private islands. Hahaha.

Or we'll be sad because others who come after us, far smarter, wiser and better funded, will buy up all the STEEM at $0.01 each or less, laughing all the way at the bank (along with the early miners who've been powering down this whole time). It's hard not to feel like a sucker when so many are cashing out week after week.

Oh well. If the price does go up, those who sold low will be sad too. :)

I said that when it went from $1 to $0.25 though... so I don't have much confidence. But I'm certainly hopeful. I've yet to power down since June. Maybe not my smartest financial move, but there it is.

Thanks Barry. If I hadn't dropped quite a bit of BTC in the beginning, I'd be swimming with the minnows also. Now I'm at least starting to find the pack of dolphins out there looking for whales. :)

Thanks Brian!

Yeah, it's going to take quite a bit of new blood to keep this body functioning. Who knows if or when that will happen.

I wonder what very early bitcoiners felt like as the price was bouncing all around. They had nothing else to really compare to, I guess, so they probably thought everything was a gift.

Heh, yeah. I think people who bought up bitcoin at $1 or $30 thought they arrived too late also when others were buying at pennies and selling at $1, feeling like geniuses. It's all a matter of perspective and timescale, I guess.

I kind of wish I had arrived a little later. Than I wouldn't have bought it at the high prices I did. At the same time, I'm glad to have enjoyed the inflation protection via Steem Power while STEEM was being diluted. Even though in USD and BTC terms, I've surely lost money currently, the Steem Power holdings are much higher and, if the price does go up, I should do rather well.

Contributing has become a nice reward in and of itself.

>I've got dan to overtake now. Dont want any drama while doing that though.

Haha if dan were to start flagging your posts now the motives would be pretty clear. xP

Thanks. :) I agree, it's been a fun journey indeed. Thanks for including me in one of your interviews. I did take a couple week break when we went to Florida. When we're on the road, many things take a back seat.

100k SP is a nice goal to hit along with the top 15 post rewards. Thanks for always being so encouraging, I hope you meet your goals!

You may be right, but I'm not yet convinced. Like any social media platform, the value you gain out of it comes from the people you choose to follow. I've thankfully avoided most of the drama quite successfully. I've introduced a lot of people to Steemit and when I think through why they didn't stick around and continue posting, I think it's much more complicated than that. I'm thinking I might to a little survey and ask them directly, but many I have already talked to say they are just too busy to write things, but I also think it has to do with whether or not their friends are already here (they aren't). The network effect is a huge hurdle to overcome. That, and many people are not online all the time like most of us here. They just don't really care that much about online stuff.