Based on the new direction of the platfrom from the last 3 @steemitblog posts
- Best onboarding for crypto
- fastest block time
- scalable
- most diverse crytpo community
- Free to use - no fees
- Open source code
After Hard Fork 19, More Steem Power will actually equal proportionally more voting power. When this happens I expect demand for STEEM to begin rising faster. I think we have seen the bottom. STEEM will be increasingly more expensive to accumulate. You will still be able to make money on Steemit, because the USD price of STEEM will be increasing, but it will become more difficult to accumulate stake as it becomes more decentralized.