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RE: Who Wants 1 SBD = $1 USD?
Thank you for the kind words. Yes, a lower price for the short term would alleviate the pain in some ways, like picking up more Steem for a lower price but high SBDs can do that better in my opinion.
As with the example above, if SBD were pegged to one dollar I would only be able to buy $24.41 in Steem but with SBD at nearly $7 I can buy a total of $97.24 worth of Steem from the payout.
This is from the revised white paper—
So it's a debt instrument, right? Which means people are buying debt, with the hope that Steem will go up to convert later? Or what?
That stuff flies like a rocket, right over my head! You can trade your SBD on the internal market for Steem. You want the Steem to be cheaper so you can get more Steem at the time of the trade but in the long run you want both to go up together. I guess you pay off the debt that is produced automatically via the 50/50 payout by trading it for Steem. Very confusing to non-economics majors!
I'm glad I'm not the only one it parts the proverbial hair on. I think.
So, the whole peg to $1 USD thing. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the intent of the $1 USD peg to keep the SBD from ever being worth less than $1 USD, rather than keeping it from ever climbing? And isn't it in addition to that the SBD will always be worth at least $1 in Steem?
Yes, that is true at this point in time. But I believe in the past it also meant that it wasn't supposed to be higher than 1 USD.
That's a good point. It does help to have the SBD price higher. Although high price of SBD means you need a higher rate of return to be profitable with voting bots.
I think we should set the price of Steem to $0.01 and the price of SBD to $10. I'll level in no time! :D
Yikes! Not sure if I would like that or if that would work. Please explain further!
Ha ha ha. Your reaction: Priceless!
I was joking, but in reality, you would level super quickly. The 1/2 reward that goes to XP would be 1 Steem Power per penny. The 1/2 of the reward that went to SBD would be able to purchase 1,000 Steem (power) per SBD.
:D