The reason I went ahead and calculated the daily cost of the interest increase was to make sure that it wouldn't add too much to the debt and be counterproductive. Debt reduction was running about 5% ($100K) per week, though in the past 1-2 weeks it has slowed down somewhat. Still, $260/day is not a major problem relative to continuing to neglect properly pegging SBD and undermining what ultimately could be one of the most useful features of the platform.

It is for sure complicated as you said. Only after having spent a lot of time thinking about these issues over the past few weeks have I reached my current (certainly incomplete) level of understanding. I may write a bit more soon on the tools available to witnesses to maintain the peg and some of the ways those tools can and should be used.