Hi SCG, You are probably be correct.

IMHO, Steemit has been a potential competitor to Facebook for a very long time and believe that Steemit has been intentionally undermined through various methods.

I believe this is also True for Bitshares.

Both Bitshares + Steemit have been working Blockchains for OVER 3 years, so my Best Guess is there has been price suppression for much of the 3 years time.

I am still here because I upvote people in Venezuela who really need our upvotes... for example, see the accounts listed below:

@lopzdaniel
@biankalopz <--- Daniel's wife
@littledisciples <--- Venezuelan Children they feed, train + teach

They both have College degrees and decided to leave their "normal" jobs and help the poor children in Venezuela and have been doing so for the last 3 years.

Thank You for this Post...

Cheers SCG !!