I can see the positive and negative in both @gadrian, including folks over extending their budget in December and getting by on a shoe string in January.

Oh yeah, for Christmas and Black Friday(s) lots of people go over the board with shopping.

Excellent point on the STEEM price/development divergence.

It just came to me yesterday. We're going strong fundamentally on many aspects, yet the price was going down with the market, maybe more sometimes. This divergence will at some point be corrected.