Basically, at $83 million, Steem is equivalent to a fairly small "microcap" stock. At $5 billion, Tron is in the "mid cap" range. Which, actually, sort of makes sense to me, since Steem has sort of a niche use case, whereas Tron is much broader.

For a while, my opinion has been that to really increase the market cap, we have to see a really large increase in organic use. And that means diversifying from the "Medium"/"Blogger"/"Wordpress" style blogging. In Web 2.0, I think that blogging sites see much less traffic than microblogging/photo sharing. This is why I've been experimenting with Steem Links and the word search puzzles.

This also ties to your post on memes. I agree with you that something like that is needed, but it's also a fairly hard problem. As you alluded to, it's a grey area for copyright. Also, meme dapps on Steem have already been tried twice that I'm aware of, and it didn't pick up. (apps like that are the original reason why I created the remlaps-lite account) Whether it's memes or something else, though, I think we need to find a way for large numbers people to use the platform in a productive way without spending half their day writing and proofreading.

Btw, is @penny4thoughts or you receiving delegations?

Of course you're welcome to delegate to @penny4thoughts - and it would help the account to reward engagement from participants, but it doesn't have any capability to share curation rewards with delegators, and it's totally not necessary. The account keeps the SP portion of the beneficiary rewards that it receives and distributes the liquid portion (STEEM and/or SBD), so it's chugging along, growing one day at a time ;-).