I agree the market's been rough. And somewhere it forced people to stop wanting to tap into the Steem blockchain and develop lots of cool site and dapps. Steemgigs, Steembooks... all still have great potential...Steempeak.com is fantastic.

I think the point about SP becoming undervalued is also relevant. The power of SP is it can be retained on the platform and spread into supporting projects, dapps and users, and reclaimed again for boosting one's own posts (without spending on bots). People cashing out should be losing out on what they can do or gain from retaining it.

This should be a time to think what we love about Steem and hope to see more development again, more ways to cut out middlemen and reward web users directly. Let's hope to see killer dapps. More people wanting to develop.

Let's hope all the expertise and experience at Steemit.inc will not be lost too.

There might still be issues with governance, easy onboarding, obsessing over community... Maybe more fundamental aspects relating to the Steem Blockchain needed to be addressed much earlier in the year...

What about Steempress for Wordpress?... Share2Steem... things like this can still make Steem rise up (dramatically) when the market swings up again...

Stay busy!
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