Steempower is a great crypto investment in my mind. For several older reasons but also new reasons now. This is my Top 5.
OLD REASONS:
1. Safety
Because it takes 7 days to power down 1/13th of your Steempower to its liquid form STEEM it gives you 7 days in case of a hack to restore your account. It's a great failsafe.
2. Interest
You get a small interest just by having Steempower. It grows automatically.
3. influence and better creation. (great for content creators)
It gives you more influence on the platform (more say over the distribution of the reward pool) and you receive better curation rewards. It's great for content creators.
NEW REASONS:
4. Renting out your Steempower (great for investors today)
It's possible to delegate or rent out your Steempower. It gives a pretty good return on investment. Around 75 SP = 1 STEEM per week. This is great for investors that have no interest in Blogging or being active on the platform but do see the potential.
It's also great for the Price because the more Steem that is locked up the less there is on the market.
5. SMT's (potential)
Smart Media Tokens are planned for early 2018. I think these tokens have a lot of potential to become successful and can take the Steem blockchain to the next level. STEEM and Steempower are needed regarding anything SMT's related.
My vlog:
I tested out a bot made by Jesta. By just sending 10 STEEM to another account I got delegated 500SP withing 2 minutes. It worked great. Combining this with SMT could be great.
I talk about it more in my vlog.
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