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RE: What's Going On With the Price of Steem Dollars (SBD)??
LOL, anything that is traded on the exchanges will be traded and speculated on :D Tether is a different story, it is more pegged to the USD and it is able to keep the price in balance because it has a tremendous marketcap. Therefor you would need to pump or drop a huge amount off tether to move the price. Nobody is doing that because the only use case of tether is too quickly get in and out of crypto on exchanges. SBD is much lower in marketcap, and has real platform value, thus I assume we had a little demand spike here, maybe people wanted to pay for some services, bots, steemitshop, sell off steem, take profits? It will balance itself out however. These pumps are a nice way to get a little more steem for your SBD.
I also suspected that because of the low market cap it was much more likely that some buying would push up the price. It could even be some idiots with money thinking they are buying Steem. What has me a bit perplexed is that it seems to have stabilized about $1.60. If the whole idea is that it is pegged to USD then there should be some mechanism for it to come back down. Or do I just assume going forward that SBD are free floating?
I had been getting rid of Steem dollars because they were supposed to be pegged and Steem should have had the greater profit potential but in the last couple weeks SBD has actually appreciated more.
It will come back down to $1 and you are doing everything right, STEEM it the one that will appreciate in value. Most people who are passionate about steemit as a growing social media platform like myself are projecting x5-10 long term