Centralized or not, they are still digital currency, or crypto coins, both use a blockchain. The centralization is a moot point, you are picking at hairs. The

Centralized or not, they are still digital currency, or crypto coins, both use a blockchain. The centralization is a moot point, you are picking at hairs. The value of the transactions may differ, but at least the Steem transactions are more likely to be 'real', that is to say they are transferring value from one person to another. See my earlier comment about how a large proportion of ethereum 'value' is merely shuffling coins between different wallets of the same owners.