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Is the value they show for an upvote USD or Steem Dollars?

Its in USD as shown in the screenshot.

SBD aka steem dollar, if value of steem dollar goes down your reward go down as well because its adjusting. But then again i could be wrong.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/steem-dollars/

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