I personally would introduce a 2-way conversion mechanism right now, allowing for a downwards peg, immediately. This would force the price of SBD down to 1USD quite swiftly.
The problem here is mostly political in nature I think. Pro-peging witnesses are reluctant themselves to implement this, because they would arguably be in the "driver-seat" position and would be able to trade with foreknowledge accordingly, which would be akin to "insider-trading" and possibly discredit the trust the community puts in them.
As the situation stands right now, while most of the community continues to prefer getting unhealthily high payouts and resists the idea of introducing a downwards-pegging-mechanism for fear of reduced short term profits, me might just be stuck with things as they are...
...until we eventually plummet back down to below 1USD STEEM, see a correction of SBD to close to 1USD... THEN we can introduce the two way peg without political controversy and hope for the platform to recover.
I can really recommend you check out the post by @lukestokes that I've linked under "Further reading" in the post-footer. He has a 20mins video going into all the pros and cons of pegging, much more elaborate than I could ever be.
that is ok then, in my humble opinion, we are all seeking for the good of the community, if your propose action will be helpful, then you have my support, do it let's see as it goes
If I could just "do it", heh... I probably would, I'd have to think this through some more... but yeah :P
The beautiful aspect of this platform, though, is that we together must do it. If you support these changes you should vote for witnesses that support it too.
It's a bit like a true democracy should be here, nobody can "do it" alone, we must do it together by voicing our opinions and building a majority consent. Well... let's be honest, it's not a true democracy at all, it's more like anarcho-capitalism, since our stake gives our "democratic" voice more weight... but we still have to elect our witnesses wisely.
I personally would introduce a 2-way conversion mechanism right now, allowing for a downwards peg, immediately. This would force the price of SBD down to 1USD quite swiftly.
The problem here is mostly political in nature I think. Pro-peging witnesses are reluctant themselves to implement this, because they would arguably be in the "driver-seat" position and would be able to trade with foreknowledge accordingly, which would be akin to "insider-trading" and possibly discredit the trust the community puts in them.
As the situation stands right now, while most of the community continues to prefer getting unhealthily high payouts and resists the idea of introducing a downwards-pegging-mechanism for fear of reduced short term profits, me might just be stuck with things as they are...
...until we eventually plummet back down to below 1USD STEEM, see a correction of SBD to close to 1USD... THEN we can introduce the two way peg without political controversy and hope for the platform to recover.
I can really recommend you check out the post by @lukestokes that I've linked under "Further reading" in the post-footer. He has a 20mins video going into all the pros and cons of pegging, much more elaborate than I could ever be.
that is ok then, in my humble opinion, we are all seeking for the good of the community, if your propose action will be helpful, then you have my support, do it let's see as it goes
If I could just "do it", heh... I probably would, I'd have to think this through some more... but yeah :P
The beautiful aspect of this platform, though, is that we together must do it. If you support these changes you should vote for witnesses that support it too.
It's a bit like a true democracy should be here, nobody can "do it" alone, we must do it together by voicing our opinions and building a majority consent. Well... let's be honest, it's not a true democracy at all, it's more like anarcho-capitalism, since our stake gives our "democratic" voice more weight... but we still have to elect our witnesses wisely.
A few witnesses that (to my best knowledge) support the establishment of a two-way-peg are @ausbitbank, @lukestokes.mhth and @reggaemuffin. If you support this idea, you may want to consider giving them YOUR Witness-Vote.