Good morning @aggroed. I see your point on the benefits to you and your respective coutries, But, many 3rd world countries would not accept the currency as they are already struggling to maintain their own currency.The infrastructure will not be available to implement crypto payments. The effect of this will be that lets say in this instance that 1/3 of the worlds Steemians will benefit from it.There are loads of bloggers from impoverished countries or areas bettering their lives through Steemit.From there on one of two things will happen. Either Steemit will lose quite a number of active bloggers because they have no more real benefit of using Steemit to earn some income as they do currently.The other option is that they will stay on but posting loads of content to try and make up for the lost income, meaning that 2/3 of the posts will be pushed down so quick and great content will be missed or not see.It will be like another Facebook, except everyone will be in a posting frenzy to accumulate Steem. The essence and the thing i love most about steemit is meeting people from around the world.I would hate to see people leave Steemit because of this. I believe in the growth of SBD because it has the great backing of steemit and a GREAT community behind it. Thank you