It's rising in popularity but decreasing in value, so that could be a bit of hype playing off with the numbers and all. Still, there is potential to earn a lot of money here but the bigger payouts seem to be becoming rarer, competition is becoming a lot more fierce, it's becoming harder to be recognized. My account value has dropped from 1500 to 485 in the two months I've had it, will it be down to one cent tomorrow. Powering down seemed exciting until I realized how little it's becoming worth. Steemit is an incredible idea and I still believe in it, but this downtrend has to stop. As I've said in a previous post, whatever happened to those 30,000 dollar payouts..