True, unless you can Whale up and average a couple hundred per post. The strategy, especially as what you say is true regarding the ties to BTC, is that you'd have to really watch the fluctuations and buy trade in low and trade out high, again and again, making a little profit each time to increase what you can buy in with.
The fact that Steemit allows you to buy in with Crypto that you earn through a trade (blog posts) allows you to "use House money", so to speak, and therefore allows you to create your own "Ground Zero" revenue-wise.
Then you may wish to follow what @me-tarzan is doing. He has several BTC strategies that he updates daily. He is not particularly chatty but will respond to questions and he has several different strategies so you may find one that you like. For now at least his information is free as he makes his money from the Blog post itself.
Sounds good, I'll look him up.