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You do know that Steem, BitShares, and Peerplays are all built on the Graphene technology so that developments on one platfrorm should be readily adopted by the others, don't you? They should prove symbiotic in many ways. And BLOCKPAY, by the BitShares Munich team, is a uia (user issued asset) on BitShares internal decentralized market which will give an income stream from the several projects nearing release (smartwallets, payment systems, stealth transactions etc.).

There are many other exciting projects under development.

Full disclosure: I have positions in all tokens mentioned :-) and many others on the BitShares DEX (de-centralized exchange).

I think that the price of bitcoin could well go to 2 to 3 thousand in 2017, but what does that do for you when compared to BTS going from 0.004 to .10 cents?

Yes, I knew about Peerplays and Bitshares all being on the same network as Steem. Thank you for the deeper explanation.

I wouldn't say they are on the same network. I would say that they use the same underlying technology for their chains. So developments on any one of them should be fairly easily adopted by the others. And devs working on any one of them will be familiar with the technology of the others. For instance, PEERPLAYS has mentioned that they are developing a dividend disbursement function. When available, if this then becomes adoptable by BitShares it will add enormous flexibility to businesses wanting to use the BitShares DEX.

Loving the perpective here! ;) Namaste :)