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I would sign up, but I don't feel comfortable entering my private keys on your site. Why not use steem connect?

Good question. Transactions use steemconnect, but signing in to the site means trusting aggroed and yabapmatt with your posting key.
They're working on a browser extension that will mean your keys aren't sent over the net; but are stored entirely in your browser; but it's not ready yet.
In the meantime, the devs are two of the most trusted names on the chain.

Ah, thanks for the feedback. I've been wanting to check it out, but it was making me a bit nervous! It feels like the wild west with Steemit apps.

Understandable. Yabapmatt, the main coder, hates it more than we do, hence the efforts to build a browser extension. Get involved, mate. It's great fun speculating on which cards are going to be winners. Stats are out soon. Gameplay start of October.

Ok, I went ahead and took the plunge and signed up/bought a starter pack and then bunch more cards. I felt a bit better after you vouched for it!

You won't regret it.
Sent you a starter. Enjoy :)

just to clarify... steemmonster asks for the posting key... not happy about this but at least its not the active or owner key??.. ;)

Awesome! Thanks, Matt.

please explain me your reasoning...

The price is always quoted in USD... and now crypto prices are low.. so buying booster packs now equals selling crypto at such depressed prices...
why should that make sense?
but OK.. your are talking about bidding for single cards...
so people selling cards now probably bought the booster packs at higher valuation.. e.g. cheaper in steem units... so they are still selling at profit... atm steemit income for steemians is lower.. so people do have less steem to buy their favorite cards on the market and this drives prices down...
if prices go up on the other hand lets say to 4 USD or even higher you get twice the amount of booster packs per steem units and that should deflate also the market price for single cards...
so still does not make sense to buy now..

if yaba and co. want to encourage people now they could do by promising more rare cards in each booster pack.. but again... this again will deflate prices..

not looking good atm...
I would advise them to fix prices in steem and not in USD.. this should solve the problem...

If you invest in SM packs and the STEEM price drops, being denominated in USD, they should theoretically hold their value.
If the STEEM price jumps, then assuming the cards you bought are still available, they'll become cheaper, (at least for those buying with STEEM), but then price rises can't help but boost the value of the entire SM ecosystem.

#truth 🙂🚀

The Steem Monsters crew are doing an amazing job! #builditandtheywillcome

I believe the reasoning is to buy the cards cheap on the Monster market.

100% why I sold
Now and didn’t buy haha, is the amount of steem not usd that’s important.

I agree some parts of this post do not make sense. The author has on some level realized this and is contradicting themselves.

Chances of good cards getting higher? Please show us that calculation.

Why this empty marketing rhetoric?

This is sick . Nice post i follow mate ^^

mice write up, how can i buy steem now, please explain the procedures in details. Thank you.

Oh, I have been buying

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400 booster packs?! What is the best card that you landed if you don't​' mind me asking?

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oh dang! Nicely done!

Haha! Stop it, stop it, stop it!! I have bought far too many, but I did realise today that I must have a half-decent team by now. Managed to get my first 2 gold foils the other day :) Would love to snag a dragon.
Btw. I placed an audition for the voice actors in the comments of the relevant post, would be great to hear what you guys think to it :)

Well, I just bought my Starter Pack today, so yeah. It's a great time to buy. Lol!

just bought another 100+10 today, can't wait for the battles to begin!

got quite a few nice pulls out of it, filling out my gold and legendary folders...

got my 1st Chromatic Dragon, + plenty of Golds
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Collectables in general are in a bubble right now. i'm not putting my money in. This is not better than buying beanie babies as an investment.