I wish I read this before I tried to struggle through the whitepaper.
How about a simple English explanation of how SBD works or is intended to work?
Any why it is not currently working as intended?
SBD - Steem Backed Dollar or Steem Blockchain Dollar
SBD is worth at least one dollar (or thereabouts). But since it can be freely traded, the market may decide that's it's worth more.
That means the Steem blockchain design did not anticipate the market valuing SBD more than USD?
A lot of business models cannot be implemented without the stable currency.
How about we redesign the Steem blockchain in order to try and restore the peg in a way that it can be maintained. I have an idea for that in a post I wrote 7 days ago (just hinting it is too old to earn and therefore my goal is more of sharing the idea):
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@mkdouglas/decentralized-autonomous-steem-central-bank-for-maintaining-the-1-to-1-sbd-peg-to-the-usd
My understanding of why it became unpeged is when the bots csme to be they only accepted SBD which made it have a huge demand and caused it to artifically go up. Then again i am kind of an idiot sometimes but that is how i have understood it.
The bots accepted SBD because it became more valuable than steem..not vice versa.
SBD was Steem Backed Dollar but because the peg failed it became modified in the updated whitepaper as Steem Blockchain Dollar (smart if you ask me).
Not even @dan know why SBD skyrocketed. IT SIMPLY MAKES NO SENSE!
There is a small amount of SBD relative to Steem.
I'm not saying it was manipulated, but it wouldn't take a lot of money for a whale holding a ton of steem to bid up SBD as a way to proxy bid steem, then sell off a ton of steem.
The peg had failed in 2016 but for a long time before the August 2017 whitepaper, the peg had held. So I am disinclined to believe that was the reason for the name change but I can see how the name change modifies expectations:
STEEM Backed Dollar - a cryptocurrency whose US Dollar value is backed by STEEM.
Steem Blockchain Dollar - just another cryptocurrency whose value is determined by market forces. If this is the case then why not just discontinue SBD by converting all of them for STEEM and simplifying the dynamics of the platform for easier adoption and growth?
So demand for SBD went up because it was the currency of the bots?
This can be supported by information regarding how much of the total supply of SBD circulates amongst the bots or rather how much of the SBD circulating is paid to the bots on a daily basis.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@penguinpablo/how-many-of-the-upvotes-are-done-by-paid-voting-bots#@mkdouglas/re-penguinpablo-how-many-of-the-upvotes-are-done-by-paid-voting-bots-20180314t124211980z