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I don't remember where I read that it was batter for us to do that instead of exchange on the internal market.

That's true, as long as you get good rates on the external exchange.

What this does is increase the Trading volume for Steem, making it feel like a more used cryptocurrency. Sadly the internal market is not included in the trading volumes for Coinmarketcap, making it seem like it is a smaller currency than it actually is.

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