Looks like the crypto market is testing the 500 billion dollar market cap after reaching almost 520 billion earlier today.
Litecoin, Eth are of course having some pullback after their insane gains. Bitcoin is slow, Iota is falling hard. Except for some smaller coins, it's Ripple, EOS, Tron and Steem that's doing fine today.
Usually Steem is one of the first coins to nosedive once the markets are correcting, but today it seems like it chose to go the other way.
Possible reasons
@Samseder joined Steemit. I don't know who he is, because I don't watch mainstream media, neither here in Norway or American mainstream. But he had a show called "The Majority Report"
I guess he is a liberal progressive, which I am most definitely not. But he says that he has lost advertisers and he almost got fired? Maybe there's something too him..I don't know. We'll see. Welcome anyway!
Either way, it's a good thing that we're gaining attraction from more established content creators. Let's hope they will interact with the community and not just post here. As we all know, to succeed on Steemit, you have to engage with people. The roof is high for different opinions, but if you don't answer comments, upvote or in other ways engage with people, you're getting dropped.
Other things? Vice. A porn site connected to Steem is on it's way.
Crossed the 1000th place on Alexa ranking
Craigslist accepting crypto
Yahoo finance lists Steem