Did shit really go up so much?

non of my endeavors involve ctrpyto, as such - it was from using the converted steem and starting other things with the money. Thats where my rewards are coming from.

eg - if i had 100 steem earned @$1, and sold - that's hundred dollars.
I then invested that 100 in something else , and now it's 800.
(based on all the prices of steem that I sold off, over my power downs. The price per steem is now up around the $8 per mark - at the moment.... But rising.)

(It's not that impressive, tbh. If it was I'd tell you! lol.
It's just grinding away at stuff, I just needed to get myself into gear after a few years of cruising semi retirement .
An unintended consequence of joining the steem ecosystem , you might say. I found out that steem had put some petrol in my tank!).