Here's the price of STEEM today the 4th of January 2018.
Bitcoin is a basic blockchain technology. Steem has all the main features that Bitcoin has except that it is better!
Let me tell you why Steem is better:
1) STEEM is showing more potential to grow!
Steem has only been active recently, and there is only currently around 50,000 total users compared to the 8.5 million users on blockchain.info alone. This leaves us with a lot of room to grow. And with only 50,000 total users, we are already #3 on the cryptocurrency market capitalization list.
It's also a bit like silver and gold. Steem is extremely undervalued at this point in my opinion, just like silver is undervalued to gold. Also, silver has real tangible industrial demands and actual uses, while with gold it's pure speculation.
2) STEEMIT OBVIOUSLY!
Everybody can earn Steem without the need to invest! There's no risk involved.
And with the presence of Steem Dollars, you can choose whether you want to power up at a certain moment or simply keep the steems as they are.
3) STEEM is more evenly distributed!
This might seem crazy for some of you, but in reality the whales aren't that bad after all. They actually do us all good, by upvoting quality content. Their biggest job is to curate, as it benefits both the Steem community and themselves through curation rewards. They are the ones who make the newbies get more Steempower themselves, and becomes dolphins.
Also, one person can manipulate the bitcoin market if he holds just a few million dollars in bitcoins. However, Steem whales actually cannot do that. Because what they hold is Steempower, and worst case scenario they can only dump 1/104 of their Steempower stash in one week, or 1/728 in one day.
4) STEEM makers are famous and well know, unlike SATOSHI NAKAMOTO!
Again, the general public isn't comfortable with trusting a person who is completely anonymous - and holding 1 million out of 15 million coins in existence. He can wreck his own invention if he wanted to any day by dumping all his bitcoin stash.
Having active founders also mean that we get more technical support, and the community runs smoother in general.
