Thank you for posting about this! I recently created my 3 Steemit goals for the year, one of those being to earn 1,000 coins by 12/31/2018. While I don't think $100 Steem is possible this year, I do believe it will be in the next 2-3 years, and I want to have 1,000 (or a lot more) when it does.
Although I do think that the market will have to grow as a whole, there are "projects" valued at over $1B. As those start to fail, and some will, more confidence will be put into functioning and successful coins like Steem. I think some failure will drive Steem, but I could be wrong.
I agree. We need to clean house of some of these shit coins. My goal is to get to $1000 too by the end Feb. I'm getting close! lol Good luck on your goals. Keep posting awesome replies like this and you'll get there.
Thank you, much appreciated!