World market can't ignore Bitcoin nowadays, in fact, many businesses were already part of the bitcoin network system plus you and me and our fellow cryptonians who were numbered into millions who are users and investors of this virtual currency. Wall street huge firms are now showing interest in this Bitcoin mania. But so many critics that bitcoin is a bubble and will burst soon but in spite criticizing Bitcoin, it still surges up reaching $19k+ as of this writing. Even the influential banker James Dimon criticized bitcoin so much that he even called stupid those who are engaging in it but suddenly his firm JPMorgan declared that they were considering bitcoin through the CME's Future markets. Bitcoin now is in the limelight where critics only saw the negative side of it and even they perceive things that will lead the downfall of bitcoin. But to us, the cryptonians only saw the positive side of it and we are now enjoying the impressive run of Bitcoin.
On the other side of crypto-world, steem is on the runway and started to surge up. It was several months that steem crawling below $1 and now as of this writing, it's already $2.11 and still rising. I'm a bit regretful about why I didn't take advantage when steem is just below $1. I'm always investing on ICO's which is also less than a dollar per coin and I disregard steem thinking that it will just stay $1 and I was totally wrong. But it's not too late to invest in steem, it is just starting to fly and maybe soon it will hit $10 per steem - who knows, only time will tell.
SBD (Steem Dollars) have much impressive run compared to steem. Just a few months ago, both were in the $1 mark but SBD surges up higher than steem reaching a mark of $11.
These will really encourage us steemians to do more since we see a brighter steem ahead.