The drop in crypto prices is related to investor & out side influences.
But when platform growth is looked at, the blockchain concept and maybe ETH in particular show huge growth.
So where is the disconnect?
Why with huge growth does the price of crypto trend downwards?
But a more relevant question might be does Steem growth match that of the ETH blockchain?
What is it that Steem needs to be doing to achieve the same growth?
Is 'blogging' so 1990's that is is a dead fish swimming upstream?
Are SMT's the answer or is there another way or idea to match the ETH growth?
What steem needs IMHO is users, lots of them.
They need an easy fast way to sign up, but mostly they need a reason to want to be here.
Time will tell
https://www.ccn.com/lubin-forget-price-ethereum-adoption-is-growing-rapidly/