I definitely am staying optimistic and hoping this will change. It has impacted everyone. It is concerning. We may need to determine ways those of us on steemit can help.
I've read that it is beneficial to the overall platform and price of steem to use the week long transfer of steem dollars to steem rather than simply converting quickly on the internal market or external ones such as bittrex, poloniex.
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