I get what you meant now. In this space when people talk about inflation they are referring to the issuance of new tokens as a percentage of the total supply not the market value.
If you compare the current value to the all time high all crypto is down between 75% and 99%. But if you to compare to the all time lows steem is up 71%. I guess it depends on what your starting point is.
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