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RE: STEEM price is diving. Again. Still. 50% down over last 30 days. 66% down over last 90 days
Well, to be fair Whitepaper outlined risks in STEEM being highly inflationary currency. Imho if one wants to invest STEEM POWER is way more secured and $$$ 
Good luck preserving value in STEEM POWER. I lost $12K over 3 months, and I consider myself lucky.
Relatively easy to lose 90% by locking your money into STEEM POWER.
wow, that is... unexpected. I am actually contemplating to invest in SP myself. Would you care to elaborate on the loss? Is it a paper loss or realised loss on the actual power down?
I was of an opinion that SP accrues some STEEM and my reasoning was that it would mitigate the STEEM price swings.
And thank you for the heads up!
Do you know about steemwhales.com? If not, take a look at that site.
Will show you details of any users wallet.
You can look at my wallet and see how SP and STEEM varied over last 4 months.
I suggest looking at jerrybanfield wallet for a cleaner picture.
Jerry estimate account value was $130K on October 1st
By Oct 30, Jerry estimated account value was $85K at end October.
Major loss of value over month of October.
SP value relative to US fiat, goes up and down the same as STEEM value relative to fiat.
If the price of STEEM is diving relative to US fiat, SP is doing the same. More or less. Not exactly, but close enough to be approximately correct.
STEEM is currently $0.90. If you think STEEM is going up, buy and wait for STEEM price to increase.
Putting your STEEM into SP does a couple of things:
a) locks you money up, and to get 100% back you have to go through a 13 week power down cycle. So your money is locked for 3+ months
b) in exchange for having your funds locked in SP for 3+ months, the payouts you get for posts and replies/comments will be adjusted slightly upwards, and the value of your vote when you comment on other posts will go up.