clever idea

Interesting I like this idea I followed you. I am holding onto my Steem I'd rather not power up more as I have invested $150 into my account. Curious what you all think about the Steem price going forwards.

I already power up everything I get :)

I think the payouts are going to get smaller and smaller.  The whales seem to be trying to spread their votes out a lot more.  I'm still trying to come to grips with that.  @ned upvoted my post today but put his slider at 3% so I only got a couple of bucks.  I think that if the payouts continue to fall a lot of people will stop posting because they can't afford to spend the time with it or they don't feel it is worth it to do so.  I'm personally still going strong and aware that the price might drop clear to $0.10 for Steem.  In that scenario I will power up and others will take the opportunity to do so as well.   It may never fall to that but I'm prepared if it does.

I will keep looking at it. But of course is not so simple. The model of the payouts are made in such a way that the price can only go down.

I am with you on this project! I will not sell and I will stop right now my powering down! I would like to see all the minnows, dolphins and whales united at least for one week!

I already invest 100% into powering up and am a prolific author and curator. I'm doing my part, but good on you for rallying the troops.

Actually, I really tired to concern about problem in steemit community, but okay will active on steemit for upvote and comment at good article. Powerdown is not my option. (I am minnows, ha....ha...! my SP is low, so why should I powerdown).

The problem is steem need the support of steemit members, who  are  now  less interested, as they see themselves spending valuable among of times writing good articles for 0 to a couple of cents, while  the whales gobbled large trunks of dollars. The promise isn't materialising, hence there is a need for equilibrium in steemit or the steem will fail.

An artificial boost won't help Steem in the long run. It needs to succeed on it's own. I expect it will do just fine.

New to the site...I see that there is an exchange to transact between STEEM and STEEM DOLLARS.  Having read through the whitepaper, I understand that STEEM is a short term cash-like variety of the currency that is subject to high inflation.  My understanding is that STEEM DOLLARS are something like a convertible note...either convertible into STEEM (which looks like maybe that process takes a week?) or exchangeable immediately for STEEM via the exchange.  I'm guessing that payouts on content generation and curation are made in STEEM DOLLARS?  For what purpose do you need STEEM vs STEEM DOLLARS?

With respect to STEEM, is there then another exchange where that can then be traded for non-STEEM currencies, like BTC or USD?

Please confirm or refute my understanding.  Again, I'm new to the concepts and trying to understand.  Thank you!

I like it as an experiement. If it works many will want to sell at that point.

but this boost is temporary boost ......... huge adoption can only boost permanent effect

I'll continue to not power down or sell.

The price of steem is intentionally down to get more people to come invest in steem... we want it to stay low now so we can invest and have more people invest until we get more of a user base.