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I support this idea. In order to exchange sbd to steem you have to pay fees to blocktrades.

what an amazing place this is! Just amazing.......

I agree with you @zappl. I believe the platform has outgrown sbd. Retaining it is just undermining steem as a cryptocurrency not helping it. Focusing on steem would drive the value up not just in price but also positively affect the steem ecosystem.

If this leads to an increase in the token. why not?

Me, too.

I like the SBD. Using it as a for those peer to peer transactions and for bots is what makes it relevant to me. Paying  in steem for a service just doesnt sound right to me. 

This is my first time hearing anything like this and maybe it will grow on me later but naw. Long live the SBD!

Impossible wont ever happen SBD will always be around unless the market cap is destroyed fully which I don't see happening you cant just stop giving it lol

but its not that easy to kill sbd its in free market hands now

I have never seen a pegged asset stay pegged. If it can be traded, and it will be, then there doesn't seem to be a way for it to remain pegged. I have always wanted it gone. Keep it simple. Stick with Steem. Steem is a great asset. I would like to see SBD done away with and more privacy for Steem and it's platforms. Not expecting that to happen though.

Hi @zappl it's available for colombia i mean south america?. Regards

I disagree that SBD is holding us back, it has shown some problems, but we have to thanks to SBD for giving us our last bull run, it was the biggest responsible. Without the incentive of SBD price above $1 you wouldn't have reached 1 million accounts, not even in the next 5 years. We need it to grow, when we reach the 1B accounts I guess then we will be able to discuss the end of SBD´s.

I understand that it might hurt some projects, but why would we work to protect a project instead of the growth of the community... both important, but a project will never succeed without people to support it!

i dont get why they needed both, because it was eventually going to end up with 1

Hello, I just published an article reflection online with the subject of the crypto-nominated market.  Here I leave it in case you want to read.https://steemit.com/crytocurrency/@dyanna/criptomonedas-una-solucion-para-quie

Focusing on one thing always brings the best results and so will Steem. SBD tended to be dollar's value but it showed volatility. In some ways, high price made content creators rewarded more but anyway, it consumes Steem's value and make newcomers confused. I agree with this post. Transfer like Steem to Fiat will make huge sense of its simplicity that will attract more people and increase the value of Steem.

I thought it's Steem Blockchain Dollars.
https://snag.gy/8clCRb.jpg

>SBD -> Steem -> Bitcoin -> Fiat

Why don't you sell SBD directly to BTC --> Fiat.

My purpose is to have as much influence on this platform as I can get and SBD does not help me as much. I will continue trading my SBD for BCH or Steem Power to use toward that goal.

get it off exchanges then it's all rosy

I would love to see the ability to trade steem directly to fiat if that is our desire. The multiple moves are a pain and results in up to 6 days of waiting. LAAAAAAME.

I agree! It is time for the SBD to stop holding STEEM back. Drop it like the SandBag Dollar it is.

While I'm not per se against this suggestion, I wonder how this would work out practically. Just "dropping" SBD could have unforeseeable effects, and I'd like to understand these first:
1. What would be the actual reward payouts? Only SP? How much?
2. How would you convert current users' SBD into Steem / SP?
3. What would be used as liquid asset between accounts? Currently, SBD is mostly used for that (e.g. to pay bots) because the opportunity cost is smaller than with Steem (which you'd ideally like to have powered up)

In addition, it would be great to understand why you think a "broken peg" is such a problem. To me, it's anyway not a peg, but just a lower bound for the price. That obviously means that the price can go anywhere higher if the market says so.

Last thing is the pump&dump issue. I don't exactly understand why this bothers you so much as HitBTC may not be the most relevant market. Also, with a growing number of users and an increase in Steem price, more and more SBD will be created so that market liquidity of SBD should increase.

I agree to one thing, though. The fact that internally SBD are represented as 1$ can be kind of weird. Still no reason to remove SBD from the system entirely, at least to me.

Happy to hear your feedback on this.

I'm far from being clued in about cryptocurrencies.

Is the Steem <-> Bitcoin rate fixed?
Is the Steem <-> SBD rate fixed?
Is Steem vulnerable to Bitcoin fluctuations?

I agreed with you. And this post is featured on Today's daily news (translated to Chinese)
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I agree. I develop the SteemPay wallet and I really think that supporting 1 currency or the other would be ideal. I support this idea and would consider dropping my support of SBD from the wallet

We were fucked again.

Thank you for posting well, I read and liked your writing

I hope you like it. Thanks

We've discussed <a href="https://steemit.com/sbd/@lukestokes/should-sbd-be-a-pegged-asset-if-so-when-should-we-peg-it">the value of a pegged asset</a> for quite some time. Throwing that opportunity away because the peg is broken seems like the wrong approach to me. Why not just fix the peg (see issues <a href="https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/2140">2140</a> and <a href="https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/1839">1839</a>)? If the future involves mass-adoption of cryptocurrency (I believe it does) and those new users want a stable peg (I believe they do, Tether had <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/">$2B in volume</a> in the last 24 hours), then we'll need months/years of demonstrating a stable peg for them to use. We have an opportunity to do this in ways few other blockchains can. Claiming SBD isn't useful while it's still broken isn't the full story. Many of the things it hasn't worked for yet (buying things, etc) might work if we fix it.

Possibly related: What ever happened to the ZAPPL token on BitShares you created? I purchased that, and it now has no market so it's essentially worthless? Do I get anything for my tokens?

SBD is a great concept. You can hedge against a potential drop in the STEEM price, without needing to move that value off the platform and onto a risky exchange or a taxed bank account.
It's not working that way right now; but that doesn't mean the concept is redundant. It needs to be fixed, not dropped.

I feel confused to hear the price sbd, where the price is not fixed, where sometimes the price can be spelled out very good and sometimes its price is uncertain ... my question why sbd prices are not fixed and why should be temporary ????

maybe you have an answer to my question ...

Sounds like a brilliant idea, having read this article is it advisable to turn all my sbd into steem or just hold both?

It's not bad...  I love the idea..  Its better been good at one thing than a fluctuation

Great idea @zappl, you offered pretty good insights into steem and SBD. I hope the right people read this and make the necessary changes :)

thanks for the information above! as for me i support all of it.  i prefer my steempower!!!

I agree.  What was the original intent for including SBD in the platform?

aaaaand what is your solution..?

because talking about it, doesn't change it ;)