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7c steem? buying, but not based on games, smts, etc taking off. If they do cool, added bonus. Based on what we have, can have, right in front of us.

{reason to buy steem} i thought this would come from wanting to decide which authors blog made it to trending. Your voice / steem power to push them to the top, plus the fact that your making bank curating.

Who is going to pay the bill? We are distributing large amounts of Steem but don't have people lining up to buy large amounts of Steem.

Only one answer for me - commerce, business. We need them to want advertise their products/services on steem and the income has to be distributed to content creators. You want to advertise on STEEM -> you buy STEEM token -> you make it valuable.

It does seem like a insurmountable task getting the right balance on this platform but i think things will find their level eventually...

I would totally buy more Steem if it were easy to buy on Coinbase or something like it. Having to buy other coin and then convert it is definitely slowing down my buying options.

Beyond that, you raise a lot of good questions that I don't have the answers to. Hopefully we can figure them out, and soon...

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Seven cents? I'd be buying for sure. I don't really have the money right now, but I will find it. I really think we are only about one fantastic dapp away from more mass adoption of Steem. When that comes, I don't think anyone can say. You have some other great points, it would take a book to cover them all. I don't want to do that to people though :)