I think I've bought myself a total of the upvotes now. @treeplanter has a pretty cool idea as an upvote service. I've bought many votes for others through him when I see something that I want to support more than my measley 2 cent upvote. Of course, I use my vote as well.
I saw a post from @kafkanarchy84 the other day that said steem was 35¢ a year ago. Around 8-10x that right now, which is awesome. But I don't know why it wouldn't be much more. Still learning and I'm not there yet.
Perhaps I'll go on downvoting raids when I see spammy things. Over only ever downvoted once I think. It was a day I didnt have my coffee ;)
Hahah. Coffee drinkers without coffee can get nasty.
Yeah, the price was quite low, as you can see here: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/steem/
I also like the @treeplanter idea. I first got exposed to that concept via @intrepidsurfer's work.