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I read something that SBD is a way of stablising the blockchain by having a token that is constant but can't remember why now. If you convert your SBD to steem then that can be powered up to increase your steem power but in itself it doesn't affect it when kept as SBD.

So if I convert sbd to steem without powering up to steem power is there any benefit it confers?

liquid steem is, as I understand it doing nothing. SBD gains interest as it sits there, steempower increases your vote and curation here, liquid steem gains you nothing.

Thank you