Like any investment, you need to be sensitive to the changes in the landscape. For me, I placed significant investment (based on my personal capital) in Steem and nominal investment in BTC.

My investment in BTC is part time pool mining various coins using nicehash and the "spare" processing power of my computer to generate a few cents a day and I purchased some "cloud" mining based on the cost being relatively equivalent to purchasing and running my own equipment.

My investment in Steem comes from skimming some of my BTC profits as well as reinvesting a chunk of my post and comment rewards.

I think that Steem is a different kind of investment than other cryptocurrencies because it is based on a growing and replicable service (the social network). Because the asset has backing in a fungible "product" I see the value as being more stable than a crypto which is only based on an "agreed market value".

Steem faces the challenge of distinguishing itself from other cryptos, but once it has that distinction it has the ability to outgrow other investments.