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The big short incoming? :P

Justin Sun is the king of pump and dump so you could be right.

Fun times boyz, fun times... :D
Free Marketing, that's for sure haha

It could also be that Steem is becoming the "Eastern Steem" and Hive is becoming the "Western Steem" because their ideals are not aligned. It seems to me that people from Eastern countries have much less concern over decentralization than people of Western countries, and I think its just a natural difference of cultures. The West was raised with the Enlightment history and the East was not.