1. steem is still facing the issue of perpetual hyper-inflation whereas BTC has had a hard cap from the beginning, i doubt it will rise to those levels ever but if it can keep over a dollar (or five) that would be a great achievement (stable i mean, even better is oscillating between 5 +2 and 5 -2 ofcourse)

i meant " 8 ) ", the api converts it due to the ML apparently srry