You are probably right about the treshold being in STU rather than in USD. For my research I used articles of different time horizons to try to see whether it was linked to Steem rather to USD and I found out that the $13 threshold was valid all the time and I deducted that it was not linked to Steem price.Hi @ecoinstant,
@steembasicincome is a great service that I'm using as well. I think that the blockchain has still a lot of undiscovered potential how it can be used for many different tasks.
Thank you for your comment!
The last couple months have actually been a great time for experiments, because of what some call 'the haircut' the internal price of steem was held almost nearly constant at the lower limit defined by the SBD debt mechanism. The 'market' price was low, getting down to 21 cents, but over that period the internal market only slowly went from 40 cents to 38 (as people converted SBDs).
I'm a follower now, so I'll keep an eye out for more of your work!
Nice, will be great to keep in touch!