Would you take 55,000 STEEM or 1 BTC?

I read that as someone is giving you the choice of having one of the amounts free, a gift with condition of no sale for 5 years. To me the choice is simple, I would take the steem. A little over two years ago I was loaned/gifted/delegated about 15 Steem. I have not directly bought or sold any Steem. By the end of the year I will have 2500 Steem Power.

Two years ago people were still talking about Steem Block Chain and Steemit as being a Ponzi scheme, it may be, I have no idea how long a ponzi scheme can last.

If I have 1 BTC, it will never earn/make more BTC. It will always be 1 BTC. 55,000 Steem, if if one just powered it up and did nothing it would still grow, it would make more steem. In 5 years regardless of price/value I would still have more steem than the 55,000 Steem gifted. The 1 BTC would still be 1 BTC in five years.

The other advantage of having the Steem verse the BTC is that I would be able to provide growth potential to other customers or to other groups who have a dream project via delegations, or votes. I would be able to touch many more lives with the Steem than I ever could with the 1 BTC, so that is another reason to take the Steem gift.

There is no guarantee that either one is going to have any value in 5 years time, but with the Steem, like I said above, during that 5 years or how ever long Steem will be around, the potential to help others is there, not so with BTC.