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Absolutely! Many reasons! With more exchanges adding (or considering the addition) of steem and sbd to trading platform, the value of the coin is bound to attract authors looking to make a buck off their content. And investors to raise the coin value.

At the same time, platforms like utopian, bescouted and other similar websites and services will offer these new users an interest-specific kind of steemit, where content discovery and creation will be much easier.

And then SMTs will come along, letting people like me and you create local coins for specific verticals and manage a moderated community. This will offer an oportunity for app developers, community leaders from other platforms, and publishers from various locales to join steem, launch their own SMT and turn their own content producing community profitable.

I've given this a lot of thought, and I am still reading a lot and asking many stupid questions. I try to be optimistic, and it's pretty easy as long as I ignore all the flag-war drama crap.

something something... flag drama crap. lol

Ok, you obviously have forgotten more than I know about this. ( I am the dunce in the corner when it comes to techy things- yes this sounds almost techy to me! lol)

Ok, so thats all that good then!

(and yes, forget the flagging - it's self defeating)

Thanks for the full reply!