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I have used steem / ETH as a gauge and in my post, many days ago, the ratio was 241 steem / ETH. The highest ratio recorded by me was just over 300 steem / ETH.
Currently, the exchange ratio is 263.762 steem / ETH - not the highest and not the lowest in recent days.

at one point my account was worth three times what it is now and I've made steem since. It's just a bit shocking.

I know its just an opinion, but I have good feelings about the future of crypto, so we all just need to be patient and not worry :)

It is good to not worry about the value in USD except to look for opportunity to "buy low" and Power Up - as I have a few times at 264, 268, and 286 steem / ETH. I did not do so at 300/1 ETH though - a short time window that it lasted, seconds.

I understand. Some day, it will be just a blip in the growth of steemit.com and steem & SBD. I believe that it will be worth a lot more.

Does this mean alt coins will go up? I heard that it's usually vice-versa?

I guess it's hard to say.

Yes that was probably a silly question :)

It seems that when Bitcoin drops in price, that most of the other Cryptocurrencies drop in price as well, but I don't know why that happens...