The decline in price isn't that worrying to me, but a decline in active users really is, and should be a wake up call that the rewards aren't configured optimally... I think the devs need to adjust the way rewards works so that they are slightly more evenly spread... I know we still need the big value posts to attract more people to the site, but publishing quality content which gets maybe 50 upvotes but only earns 2 cents because no whales upvoted it which I think is putting people off returning to post more content at the moment.
RE: The Co-relation between the price of Steem and Steem Reward. DID YOU NOTICE A 30% DROP IN YOUR ACCOUNT VALUE. HERE'S WHY