"The only reason that some people are not realizing this is, in my opinion, lack of education and a bit of greed. "

And unfortunately, the loudest voices in many chatrooms are just teenagers yelling about pumps and dumps and trying to not even day trade but minute-to-minute trade the market and get $$$hella rich$$$.

It helps having people like you spread the word and reminding the steem population - SBD going closer to $1 is a good thing! It's not a speculative asset, it's a peg. I would personally love being able to keep some of my steem money in SBD at times and knowing it won't have a sudden shift in value.