The Coming STEEM DOLLAR Purge : Why it Needs to Happen and How
People hate hearing bad news but sometimes you need to take the rose coloured glasses off and have a good hard look at the glaring truth. Reality has a way of kicking you in the teeth if you’re not paying attention and if this developing Bear Market in Crypto-land only teaches people one thing it is this – Markets may get carried away at times and price things wrong, but they will ALWAYS correct in the long run. The STEEM DOLLAR is no different.
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I have a history of making unpopular predictions and that is not about to change. Just over 2 months ago I predicted the STEEM DOLLAR Will Fall To $1 USD and at the time it was trading above $7 USD. I explained my reasoning and backed it up with some facts about how the Circulating Supply of SBD was exploding and it was becoming Hyperinflationary. I stand by all that and now that it’s dropped under $2 (a fall of over 70%) maybe people are prepared to start listening. But maybe not. The SBD is still defying gravity and we are still expanding the Circulating Supply with negligible Conversions back to STEEM.
Remember this chart shows the SBD Created and Destroyed PER DAY so we are still in a pretty bad place with an unsustainable inflation rate. We’ve started to see post rewards get paid out in liquid STEEM, which is the platform trying to adjust to the high Circulating Supply of SBD by printing more liquid STEEM instead of so much SBD. This is not a good thing and if we continue on this course SBD will become even less relevant as a post reward in future – eventually fading into total irrelevance. Even the authors (and witnesses) who have been cheering the high SBD price won’t want to see this. Maybe they’re starting to figure out what road we’re on. Maybe not.
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We’re not quite back to SBD $1 yet, but we are well on our way. I have been thinking about what might happen once we reach $1 and how things might play out. The market seems to have decided that SBD is loosely pegged, not to the USD but to STEEM itself. We have seen STEEM and SBD moving almost in tandem for months now. It is totally illogical to be pricing the market this way, but I think we’ve already established the market has been getting it wrong for months now so I am no longer surprised. The question is, how will the market finally correct and what does it look like? I’ve broken it up into 3 distinct phases.
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This phase is nearing the end now and has been helped along the way by the broader sell-off in Cryptos, but it’s not done just yet. I would say this phase ends when SBD hits $1 but it is not entirely true. The smart money will be putting a Buy Wall up at $1 for SBD so it is quite likely to initially bounce off this level. All those “Geniuses” out there using Elliot Wave Theory and other Technical Analysis voodoo will probably see the $1 level as a strong support level so it might bounce off $1 a few times before finally breaking through to the next phase.
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When the $1 Buy Wall finally breaks, the Geniuses in the room using TA will probably see this as a very bearish indicator and a break-out on the downside. They will start selling, but as soon as the price gets to $0.99 or below there is a new dynamic that will be at play. Arbitrage players will be able to buy SBD at 0.99 and convert it to $1 worth of STEEM. They will then be able to sell the STEEM for a 1% profit and buy more SBD at 0.99. This is the way the peg is supposed to work. The result of this is that SBDs are finally being DESTROYED by the Blockchain Conversion. The SBD price is being supported by the Arbitrage players and the STEEM price has DOWNWARD pressure due to the Arbitrage selling. This is the point where the market realises that STEEM and SBD are NOT pegged to each other. It is also the point where all the excess Circulating Supply of SBD is Purged and we go back to how things were back in November – before all this madness began. The big question, and I mean HUGE question, is whether this is also the point where the SBD Peg is fixed to have Bi-Directional Conversions so that this problem does not repeat. That is ultimately going to be for the Witnesses to decide and I’m not particularly optimistic.
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After the Purge has occurred we should see the SBD Circulating Supply normalised, the liquid STEEM post rewards we’ve started seeing should be gone and the STEEM price will probably be looking battered. We may see the Peg fixed, but regardless – after this little hangover wears off, STEEM should start to recover. Maybe the SBD will start to pump again and we will rinse and repeat this cycle. Maybe the Peg will be fixed and as confidence returns to STEEM we see a reverse of the Purge dynamic occur. The dumb money might start pumping SBD above $1.01 and the Arbitrage players will Buy STEEM, convert it to SBD and Sell SBD…then use the proceeds to Buy more STEEM. This dynamic would keep a lid on the SBD and give us that promised Stable Coin (that could attract the Starbucks of this world), while putting a rocket under the STEEM price from all the buy pressure being channelled into STEEM.
In summary, the Purge is likely to happen regardless of what people want but the big decision is whether to fix the Peg when it does happen. I personally have some cash on the sidelines and I’ll be putting some into this platform one way or the other once the Purge occurs. If the Peg doesn’t get fixed I’ll be stocking up on SBD at $1 and waiting for the next stupid SBD pump and the launch of STEEM 2.0 on EOS…or if it does get fixed I’ll be loading up on STEEM during the lows of the Purge and then riding it to the moon.
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I did not read it entirely yet, but I do believe that the "destroyed" SBD may resurface when a person that has the key of the null account decides to pull it from there.
I have already seen that the @promoted account got undelegated by some person whom is not even an insider, and the surest thing is that usage of the 'PROMOTE' option is very wrong, regardless of what your goal is, even if your goal is to increase the value of SBD.
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FYI, the @null account is a special system account and it has no key. Furthermore any coins sent there are immediately destroyed (which is why the account always has a zero balance). So it isn't possible for coins sent there to "resurface" ever.
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You are absolutely right @buggedout. This is going to happen with steem and SBD. But it will take months.
It will depend on the broader Crypto market. One more panic selloff through Bitcoin 6,000 and we could be there in a hurry. That could happen in the next week or 2.
Nice post Buggedout. lots to think about, especially if eeosa launch their own version of Steem.
Thanks. It is definitely a possibility!
Reverse convert and convert for SBD and STEEM to peg SBD to 1 USD.
Covert process- if SBD is less than 1USD, it can be converted to 1USD equivalent of STEEM, conversely, if SBD is above 1 USD, then STEEM can be converted to USD equivalent of SBD.
For example, if STEEM is $4, then when SBD is below $1, it can be converted to 0.25 STEEM while SBD is above $1, STEEM can be converted 4 SBD.
I am confused about supply souce of both SBD and STEEM- where they will come form. If somebody can explain the supply source of both "SBD and STEEM" in this convert scenario, it will be helpful.
However, it will definitely peg SBD to 1 USD. There is a market demand for 1 USD pegged stable currecny such as Tether, TrueUSD or NuBit, most importantly, it will be helpful in future internal exchange for SMTs due to its stable value.
At the end of the day Blockchain technology is just a "Public Ledger" so when you convert from one to the other you are just creating one and destroying the other by changing numbers on the ledger. It's part of the code. Just like you create STEEM when you mine a block, you create STEEM (and destroy SBD) when you convert SBD to STEEM using the code.
Thanks.
However, the question was how the automated SBD/STEEM creation/destruction are kept on par with fixed yearly inflation rate. If SBD/STEEM are created for conversion purpose for supply and demand, it can a case where abundance of STEEM if SBD's demand remains high.
However, STEEM supply is kept to a fixed rate (i.e. with 0.5% decreasing rate per year, currently at 9%). Is that emission/creation or burn/destruction of both STEEM and SBD due to conversion will be on per with inflation rate.
What happens to fixed inflation process if more STEEM/SBD are created on conversion process? Or, effects (e.g. slight increase or decrease) are negligible to fixed rate of inflation.
Currently, more liquid STEEM are created since SBD (i.e. 1USD pegged SBD) ratio of STEEM market supply crossed 2.5%, at 5% SBD production will be stopped.
What understand total reward pool (both SBD and STEEM) is generated on the base of inflation rate.
Very well written, first piece of analysis on crypto i could really understand. Bravo
Thanks. I am glad that it made sense.
This is so well written. You managed to make something complex underatandable to me. I struggle to follow these types of posts usually but yours makes perfect sense. Thank you.
You are very welcome. These are my favourite comments as I am very happy my post made sense :)
It made complete sense. For a crypto dyslexic like me that is quite an achievement
Well written, I have not thought of the mechnics of steem/SBD for a long time being distracted with other things. This seems like it would be a sensible cycle as I see it and I think it'll be a repetitive cycle as I think those in it for money will want a predictable and long term cycle of profit to grind earnings from the smaller fries, though I am cynical on investors.
I am a bit cynical myself, but some of the witnesses are very clever people and they might have the vision needed to take us forward. It'll take some decent political fortitude though and it'll be easier for them to deliberate, debate and do nothing.
Very well written. My uninformed, newbie predictions as I've been learning about all of this over the past few months have been somewhat parallel to yours; although not nearly as concise. I think that in the end we will get that stable coin, and things will be good for us here now. Thanks for this article, it was a good read and helped further my understanding of what's possibly to come :)
Thank you. I hope you're right because we don't get mainstream adoption of Crypto without a stable coin and with the advantage of the social and network effect of STEEM it's a no-brainer that the SBD really could be IT. I saw it 6 months ago when I wrote Found : The Crypto for mainstream adoption but since then we've blown it.
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overpaidhighest paid Crypto Guru on Steemit isn't using factual data to support all his highly thought out well written posts...crap no wonder I lost my house, car, retirement fund, kids college tuition's, and had to sell a kidney listening to his advice.Like you thoughts, but don't see it getting back to $1 personally. The demand due to the bots will keep it bolstered about the intended $1 target. If you close the bots down SBD drops 50% in less then a week.
LOL. I am going to take that as a joke. I don't think anyone who follows He-Who-I-Will-Not-Name would be smart enough to own a house, car and all that stuff in the first place.
It is a good point you make about the bots. Maybe I'll have a look at the SBD circulating through the bot economy to see if we actually do need a high Circulating Supply. A lot of them are accepting STEEM now so I am not convinced we need SBD for that.
Most will take steem, but if you look at the bids most bidders are still using SBD. Just because it's not "needed" doesn't mean people won't want to use it for simplicity. You earn SBD from your posts so it's easier to bid with it and keep track of profits/losses per post when the amount paid and earned is in the same currency.
And naturally it was a joke...lol
So, prices are falling on SBD, steem is going to be cheaper to buy, is all I got out of this post, the rest I don't understand. By that I mean the why it's going to be cheaper. Where is the buying steem and sbd for dummies book at? hell, I'll take the Cliff-notes version of it, oh wait, sorry, That shite got "mandela effected"
I mean the "cliffs notes" version of it.
Have a read of my post STEEM DOLLAR Will Fall To $1 USD : Here's Why it explains the Hyperinflation of the SBD.
Most countries economies have collapsed when their currencies become Hyperinflationary. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Weimar Republic are 3 famous examples.
Not yet but I will do, thanks for that link, I know that hyperinflation ruins currencies. I used to visit Mexico when I was young. Plus I have seen all of those African Billionaires. I'll will read it though.
Thank you I'll have to keep coming back for more info.