As long as we can buy them on an exchange then the price can never exceed what folks are willing to pay.
If they are put out in a crowdsale as described without freely trading on a market then some folks will get priced out of the market.
I don't like using ethereum, but understand the reasoning.
Maybe bittrex, or tradeqwik will make a steem trading pair for us so we don't have to use ethereum.
Openledger will almost certainly.
I can't put an app on this computer,.... :-(
I've got to get on there, right now I can't put an app on this computer.