Thats because USD value its a common measuring stick to compare things to. I was up in USD, but the losses were greater in CUB. CUB? How you measure that?

Those Kors were probably already in the high hundreds before the spike. I know hive uses measure of past 7 days average for post value as well, to balance it out.

As for Steem, fuck steem. They got nothing going on in dev, unless I'm wrong. It's all K hype.