Steem Bot Tracker - Major Update Regarding SBD Prices!

I am happy to announce that I have just finished a major update to the Steem Bot Tracker Tool!

Broken SBD Peg Makes Things Complicated
As everyone reading this undoubtedly knows, the price of SBD has broken free of the expected peg to $1 USD and is now trading for around $12 on bittrex which is the largest SBD exchange by volume.

All the post reward values shown on steemit.com and other Steem frontends, as well as those previously shown on the Steem Bot Tracker use the assumption that 1 SBD = $1 USD. Since that is clearly not true anymore, the post reward values that are shown are confusing and misleading.

Additionally, some bots are now accepting STEEM in addition to SBDs, since STEEM has sort of switched places with SBD as far as the "stable" currency goes. All of this now makes it overly difficult to figure out how much of what currency to send to the bid bots and what your actual USD return could be.

Using USD Instead
In order to address this, the Steem Bot Tracker Website will now show all vote values and total bid values in USD using the latest price data for both STEEM and SBDs.

The Max Profitable Bid column will now show the max profitable bid available in SBDs and/or STEEM depending upon what currencies each bot accepts.

In the screenshot above you can see that while it is not profitable to send SBD bids to the @postpromoter bot it is still profitable to send STEEM. This is information that was not readily available on the site before.

Pick Your Currency
If you don't want to see the values in USD - don't worry! There is a new drop down list in the settings section that lets you choose what currency you would like to see.

You can choose to view values in USD (default), SBD, STEEM, and POST REWARDS (which is what we're going to call the now incorrect and misleading way post reward values are currently displayed on steemit.com and other front-end sites)

Details View Updates
The vote values shown in the details view for a particular bot have also been updated to show in USD or the chosen currency in the settings. The bid amounts now show the currency used for each bid and a new column has been added to show the USD value of each bid as well.

Vote Calculator Updates
The vote calculator now allows you to choose which currency you want to use for estimating vote values. It will now also show the USD value of the bid amount you entered based on the current conversion rate of the currency you chose, and will show the estimated vote values in USD too so you can easily compare them.

In the screenshot above you can see that a 1 SBD bid sent to @booster is worth $12.18 USD but the value of the expected upvote is only $10.78 - a clear loss. If instead you send 1 STEEM the upvote value remains the same but the USD value of the bid is now only $1.72 which is a huge gain!

More Accurate Information
As a result of these updates we feel that the tool now provides more clear and accurate information about the true value of votes and will enable even novice users to make smart bids and take advantage of the awesome opportunity presented by the increased price of SBDs!

Here are links to the relevant code commits:
Started working on currency conversions
Finished currency conversions update
Some final changes for currency update

Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors