Today should be a day of celebration for the Steem community especially the developers and the team that has put their all into this project. It has achieve a significant milestone, one that certainly puts it in the spotlight, achieving a 1 Billion plus market capitalization. Probably its one of the most unique and still undervalued blockchain, its at the fore-front of a revolution, some may even say an evolution of how social media operates. It does not just provide a platform where shareholders enjoy the financial rewards but where everyone wins, the content creators, the consumers and the blockchain by extension. The blockchain was birthed with the idea of building platforms that are open, transparent, that are not controlled by large corporations or governments, where everyone is free to say whatever they like and vote according to their beliefs and conscience. Today these ideals were duly rewarded and as the community build on these ideals I can only see it getting bigger and increasing in value as layers of innovation is added to the blockchain.
Steem blockchain is ahead of the curve of many prominent crypto-related development especially on issues relating to scalability, transaction cost/ speed and security. The blockchain is still very much undervalued in comparison to prominent project when one considers usage level and community size. It is very important to highlight that Steem has an actual product that has been functioning since March of 2016 in fact some of these cryptocurrency projects with 1 billion+ market capitalization are base on ideas that hasn't really tested the challenges of time that Steem currently has under its belt. One of the most encourage metric moving forward for the Steem blockchain is increasing daily users, as that number rises market fundamentals would follow bringing more attention to the blockchain.
As the daily active users marches closer to Steem circulating supply of 245,951,445 this would have significant impact on its trading volume and thereby significantly influence its price. While the daily active users is still some distance away, the market has already rewarded some of its achievements. According to CoinMarketcap 1 Steem is currently price at $4.07 USD with a market capitalization of $1,000,188,607 USD and a circulating supply of 245,951,445 Steem.
Both Steem and Steem Dollars has been providing excellent trading opportunities for traders and speculate as they digest the news.
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As the innovation continues on the Steem blockchain with addition of new features and products with active users approaching circulating supply, a Steem Marketcap of 20 - 50 Billion isn't a fantasy. So as we celebrate this milestone, let me thank those who have put their heart and soul into this project, I have benefited tremendously from it and hope to add to its success in the future.