If you upvote my comments https://steemit.com/@mysearchisover/comments that are 30 minutes old or older that have not been upvoted by bots you should be able to get some decent curation rewards. The trick would be to wait until the comments are 30 minutes old because at 15 minutes you lose 50% of the curation rewards. You earn more if you frontrun other voters like bots.
It seems to me that Steem is becoming more valuable internally as SBD is going down in relation to Steem. I think this is good for the platform although it will suck for people who decided to go with SBD instead of Steem. I don't think we should have a peg like 
@Partiko sounds like it may be an awesome app. I downloaded it today but haven't Steem Connected it yet. Apparently it can quasi function like Facebook Messenger does since we can now have notifications. I learned about it thanks to the #1 post on Trending.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@happymoneyman/new-phone-app-for-steemit-wow
Thursday 5-24