I keep thinking that we must be getting closer to the point where the value investors come into this market and start investing based on what makes sense, rather than the lottery players who follow every rumor and speculation.

And that is where Steem is going to shine. And Steem is also going to shine because we have as much speed and capacity as we have. Oh, and then there's that really nifty "real world" thing we have: accounts/wallets with names that make sense, not a nonsensisical sequence of 42 numbers and letters.

We need more "commercial" use cases here... the new "LeoShop" is a good beginning, showing Steem actually being used as a currency to trade digital goods, completely bypassing fiat.