@cryptographic as you just explained and mentioned, which I totally agree with you, steem and sbd are cheaper for transactions, and safe, and does not have the problems tether is having regarding the safety of funds.
This situation has made people to start looking at steem and sbd, and this is great news for the steem blockchain and the steemit community, as well as for bitshares. The reason for this, is that sbd is showing that money will be flowing from bitcoin, eth to the big 3 blockchains that deliver (steem, bitshares and eos), and this will bring the revolution and the biggest transfer of wealth the history of the world has ever seen!
And by not to say what happened to me on ETH a few hours ago, and not resolved yet. I made 2 transactions both to buy more Bitshares, and none of them have completed yet. ETH is on a bottleneck, things are happening. Bitcoin will be in the same issues or will experience similar issues perhaps. I am still waiting for openledger-dex to credit the ETH funds to my bitshares.org account (over 100 block confirmations), and also waiting for bitso exchange to send my ETH funds to Bittrex, so as to transfer make the bts buying either with blocktrades or openledger.
The thing with blocktrades is that sometimes we have to pay a big premium when converrting funds.
Upvoted!
Regards,
@gold84