i think you are right buddy.. agree with you.

Hhmmm nice information, your information can help us, thank for your share guys.

So many people don't know this, they keep posting with full sp rewards and they feel they are doing the best. Good one @dragosroua.

Resteemed! They need to know.

50/50 seems like is the only option left forever now after all the mess up in prices hahaha

I want SBD to rise above steem so that I can convert my SBD to steem. I'm waiting since long now.

I was literally just wondering about this so this post is perfectly timed. I would have guessed otherwise so I'm glad I saw this!

after so many months it is down this has to happen at least after so long

> Please keep in mind that SBD was designed to be at $1 and what the markets are doing right now is pretty much an anomaly from the Steem governance point of view (but something very real from the point of view of the market, who is always right).

And the witnesses that don't work to get SBD back to $1 shouldn't be given votes.  And witnesses that have bid bots should not be witnesses. 

But, I'm just a little minnow.

I keep telling newbies this. 

I have always preferred 50/50 payouts. My strategy is to convert my sbd to steem and then power up instead of using the 100% SP. 

Thanks for throwing more light on this. 

So basically I don't even need to think about this unless SBD drops below $1.

I still don't understand why it's so important for SBD to be at $1. As someone else said, shouldn't the market decide rather than witnesses? Apologies for my ignorance as usual! 😊

But, let's say that Steem stayed where it is and SBD went to $10. Apart from the fact that a lot of content creators would be very happy, what would be the consequence of that?

Thanks @dragosroua for sharing these amazing stats of SBD and STEEM, was very knowledgeable..

The several factors affecting crypto is also affecting sbd and sp. I believe that the rise in sbd and sp will enable steemians to enjoy more reward for sbd and sp made. So up sbd and fly sp

Hmm.. Do.. Shouldn't we as witnesses force SBD to $1?
And report back the SBD value and not the USD value, when updating the SBD feed?
Because currently it doesn't work as designed, it seems..

For users that have been here a while, this is a fairly easy concept to understand, not sure how to make it any simpler, if SBD is above $1, then always take rewards with a 50/50 split

The only scenario in which I see a good option the power up 100%, is when the price of the steem and the SBD is less than 1 USD and its parity is less than 1

Suppose that the steem and the sbd have a price of 0.3 USD and 0.29 USD

# Power up 100%

0.25 * 75% = 0.1875 / 0.3 = 0.625 SP

# 50/50

0.25 * 75% = 0.1875 * 50% = 0.09375

You receive

~ 0.09375 SBD
and
0.09375 / 0.3 ~ = 0.3125SP

The SBD / steem parity for this example is 0.97

0.09375 * 0.97 = 0.0909375 steems + 0.3125 sp = 0.4034375 steems

In this scenario is better power up 100%
0.625 Steems for power up 100% and 0.403 Steems 50/50

I get you...but every minnow's motivation at first is making some money. He gets frustrated if his effort is not yielding any.
Please keep in mind that SBD was designed to be at $1 and what the markets are doing right now is pretty much an anomaly from the Steem governance point of view. 
It’s not the witnesses job to keep sbd at $1. The market determines the price. You need to remember a lot of the sbd is on the exchanges where buyers and sellers determine the price.

interesting still 50-50 for next few days :D and then see where we are i guess

i impressed to read your post and i learned something new in your post.... you sharing a helpful post....

@dragosroua,

thanks for this interesting post. I think if anything this might be the ideal time to have everything in SBD if anything whilst the price is still in Favor over Steem. My plan was certainly to accrue as much SBD as possible and wait for the SBD: Steem ratio to head back up to the 1.2/1.3 ration and then convert over as I think if you convert the SBD to steem you're actually going to decrease some of the value of your wallet.

But as always great job explaining this so more people understand this!!

So the real fight is between market supply and the witnesses slider to control the price of SBD.

very informative post.........

very helpful post.

@dragosroua, the "WORKAHOLIC-WITNESS" thanks for this vital information. 
In my recent post - **"Moon"**, I had to go 100% power up due to the drastic fall of SBD. 

Now that I am fully abreast of this valuable information, I sure will not repeat this mistake again. 
Keep doing the good work!

deci e mai bine sa las 50/50 ?

Thanks very much @dragosroua for making this clear to us. I have been seeing this going around and didn't know how ttue it was until now that I have been clarified . Everyone needs to see this so they would be able to make the right decisions .

So actually when the price of steem increases, the 50% of SP become a very unfavorable deal ... I've read somewhere (I believe it was in the whitepaper) that the SBD / SP ratio was supposed to be ok up to 10% (debt to equity). Yet the amount of SBD circulating is closer to 1 or 2%.

Yes this is a good point. When SBD is at $1 or below only then 100% power up makes sense. I have wondered about this on why someone would choose 100% power up, now it's clear to me. This is an option which would have made sense if the $ peg worked

Thank you for the visual representation of what should be known.

If SBD is at $3.50, in a 50/50 split, half the rewards are paid out at 3.5 times what they normally would.  Instead of a 1 STU one gets 3.5...

The conversion to SP could change as parity is reached or moved away from.

I keep seeing this too. Thanks for the detailed explanation. Like you said, people are free to do as they wish, but it confuses me why this rumor keeps coming up as it's definitely *not* in their best interests to do 100% powered up. It seems every time we encounter "parity" I end up explaining it at least a few more times. Now I'll just have your article to link them to. 

Thank you for the clarification, while I could figure 50/50 still would be more profitable I didn't have a clear idea why. 🙏🏼

Is it possible for the SBD to drop below $1 or how does that work?