For most of the big 4 day 1000% rally/pump in STEEM July 8-12th, the price of STEEM on Bittrex had been slightly higher (by about 5-10%) than on the internal market. Today, July 12th the external premium

Alpha steemd client Blockchain Stats  - 1500 accounts are active daily -  26 are "legend" accounts with > $60,000 in STEEM - 70,000 STEEMIT transactions vs Bitcoin average 220,000 vs Ethereum

Now that STEEM trading has climbed to about 200 BTC/day on Bittrex, transferring STEEM back and forth between the STEEMIT internal exchange and Bittrex is crucial to: (a) stabilizing the price (b) attracting