You are right. That's highly unlikely indeed. Bitcoin will be king for a long time.

When it comes to Steem you are right as well, hard to earn consistent STEEM without investing first now. But then again hard to use the BTC network without investing in some Bitcoin.

Long term SMT's or Scotbot will make this platform grow exponentially. To power all that through RC's will be the real value of Steem.

No blockchain is doing what Steem is doing and they sure can't do it as cheap as Steem can. I think this is extremely underappreciated right now.

But only time will tell. I sure believe it. Always have.