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RE: STEEM: Ask It And I Will Try To Answer It.....Let's Hear What Is On Your Minds

in #steem7 years ago

The idea of a pegged currency is for commerce. Businesses cannot price things accurately when a currency is bouncing all over the place.

If SBD is pegged at a dollar, then merchants know exactly what it is worth and can price accordingly. If the price is jumping up or down 15% in a morning, that really throws thing off kilter.

I am not sure there is a big move to push it back to $1....might be but I havent heard it discussed a ton.

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Yeah...I understand what u explained here. My question was why 1 USD specifically. It might have been 9 USD as default. From 9 USD as fulcrum it may go up but never less than $9

USD is the most used currency on this planet. So it's easier for many people to think of SBD as just Dollars. 1 USD is specifically used purely for the ease.