I think in the long-term, the only thing that is going to make the STEEM price more stable is growing the userbase of the platform, improving the content and solving some of the fundamental issues that the Steem platform has.
in total agreement here... its interesting u bring this up cuz @lionindayard and me were having a few conversations offline talking about long term scaling of STEEM network... he just wrote a post talking about his views on the subject here which echo a number of my own concerns, especially the onboarding process and how we scale the network to the traffic / user volumes of traditional social media...