Figures alone do not tell all the story.
We must be careful not to fall prey to just figures.
What are the forces driving the figures? What messages are the figures conveying?
Take Bitcoin for example, the figures were fine. Beyond fine in fact. And then, the storms. It wasn't as if the storms suddenly came. The handwriting was on the wall all along.
Steemit must make necessary adjustments to avoid the same pitfalls. Steemit is beginning to emerge as a global player, it cannot be let to speculators, moneybags whose only interest is to rip the system apart to their own benefits.
The onus is on us.