> Often when writing technical posts I end up finding problems with what I've done, or realizing there's a better way to do things, and then I stop writing and go back to coding.

I relate to this in so many ways.  Every time I'm building anything out of wood for one thing (which can get really frustrating if you don't have enough wood to work with)

> So for the moment, I will just HODL what I have and earn what I can.

I think that's the best plan because who knows what's going to happen, I'm pretty optimistic though.  If I had any way to earn FIAT to turn into STEEM I more than likely would end up with about 90% STEEM vs FIAT.

> # HF20

This is going to be interesting, I hope it does some good.

Get some sleep buddy!

Hey Matt.  How’s it going? I know you have been busy with your game.  Nice to see you take a break to ramble.

The I have mixed feelings about the price drop of STEEM. On one hand my investment of STEEM at $1.30 a month ago seemed like an extremely great buy, but now it is down 27%. It makes me sad.  However, if STEEM keep dropping I will make a larger investment because I am here for the long haul. The problem finding the bottom of the price drop. 

Thanks for your thoughts about SBD.  I never thought about buy it, but I think I will now. Hopefully it will help me hedge my initia STEEM investment.

Are you going to cryptocoincon on August 18th?

@yabapmatt it is interesting you mention sbd. I was wondering if I should convert all my liquid steem to sbd to avoid loss?  I just converted 200 sbd to steem last week lol but now i'm wondering if I should take my steem and put back into sbd. I think I have around 800 steem.  Interested to know your thoughts on that.  I'm also looking to put in 1000 fiat into steem but don't know when to pull the trigger

I quite enjoy hearing a bit of your *not-as-techy-as-usual* voice. I don’t think you were rambling — not even a little bit. 

I’m pretty sure the subjects you covered are generally the same things that are bumbling about in all of our steemy heads. I, for one, just learned some new stuff about that SBD peg. 

Thanks for sharing your insights, Yaba! ⭐️

One more thing I want to add or rather get confirmation with HF20.  All votes within the new 15 minute limit of post publication will no longer go to the author but rather go to the curation pool?  Is that right?  Do u know the reasoning behind this decision?

Thank you for finally helping me to understand at least part of why people buy SBD on exchanges. Honestly, I never got it. You can always use STEEM for anything you'd buy with SBD, and the value until recently has always seemed over priced for the stated goal of $1. But since there are mechanisms to automatically bring it back to $1 under most circumstances, and there is that upside potential, right now it does present a decent investment. However, since you can't power it up to use it to further benefit you on the platform, I'm still buying STEEM right now. And I am actively buying STEEM right now. We'll see later if it was a good idea.

@yabapmatt I heard from a fellow steemian that there was talk that, with the hardfork, there will be a change in curation and self-voting? I have heard rumors that there will be more rewards going to curators than previously. If true, that is great for smaller accounts and the ability for minnows to build their steemit accounts. I can't find anything to confirm this. Enlighten me, if you would be so kind.

Always glad to hear your thoughts, Matt. I can imagine that it’s pretty nice removing yourself from the coding world, if even for a little bit. Looking forward to seeing more technical (and non-technical) contributions from you soon. Cheers! 

Edit: I totally didn't mean to upvote my own comment, lol. I NEVER do that. Anyways, upvote for you on the way :)

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Steem is going below .50

You had me at “A random semi-related picture, 'cause you gotta have a picture, right?”

So freaking true.   Most of the time I write a post I have this same thought.  I like to have fun with it though.  Like a obscure reference I know most will never get.

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Switching to SBD now is almost a risk free bet. It has already reached its floor so there's just upside and zero downside. 

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Your take on sbd as a semi hedge is simple and really smart.   I never thought of that.  Thanks.  

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The ability of the blockchain to hold the SBD peg from the downside is a very interesting topic. Whether or not buying SBD now that it's very close to 1 USD in price heavily depends on the debt ratio. I guess what you have to follow is the SBD Debt Ratio. If you go to steemworld.com and see the Steem Info tab you can see that it's 5.295% right now. At 5% SBD completely stops being printed. Bear in mind that SBD is actually a debt instrument that blockchain guarantees can be traded for exactly one STEEM at any time. But how do you figure that the peg would break at a STEEM price of around $0.50? Is this based on how much SBD has already been printed? By what method do you quantify that?

The world is asleep and I have a quiet moment to comment. It is nice to see a non-techie post from you. I enjoy reading the tech ones because you share the inner workings of the game and your direction for it, but these rare rambling ones let others relate to Matt, not just the developer/witness. The last ‘freewrite’ writing was probably your ‘perspective’ post months ago. 

>I've been here for a year now and everything is pretty much the same as when I made my first post (even the price!).

I noticed as well we are back in the mid 2017 timeframe. I’m trying hard not to add more USD myself (my investment is minute compared to yours) but as you mentioned, there are new projects coming our way. There is only so much discretionary funds I could *justify* diverting. I refuse to give up my daily DD cup of joe. I don’t think the Steemit world is ready for grumpy bee. 

Appreciate you sharing your viewpoints on steem/sbd prices and HF20. OH-awesome interview with steemitblog. Rocking the t-shirt community pride there. 

Since I work with HL7 messages and not coding, I will try to be cool by ending with a customized ZFT segment (last segment of reference for messages). 

ZFT1|thank you for showing support to my own rambling post|and others|🙂|

Edited: Happy Steemit Anniversary!

@yabapmatt i would like to join witness

@yabapmatt Any thoughts on the 2 way peg subject?
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@yabapmatt - so if I get the SBD idea right , it should work even if convert my STEEM to SBD at this point and later on I convert SBD to Steem?

Question comes from the fact that I can't buy SBD with Fiat , only can buy STEEM...

Tanks for the rambling updates :D I've been reading your tech talks and they've really opened my mind to what's possible on the platform so thanks for the inspiration and creativity! With this kind of thinking, steem games can really make a splash against the counterparty games (that are less updated, though they were really the first suite of tokenized blockchain games) and the ethereum games (that have so little playability for the most part).

I'm excited for the hard fork. I love steem and I've been a part of a project that sees a lot of people bouncing to other platforms that aren't up yet.

Nice insights regarding the investment / savings opportunity with SBD.

> As long as the price of STEEM doesn't drop down to around $0.50, at which point you will no longer be able to convert 1 SBD to $1 worth of STEEM, of course.

Hmm, would the price then become less than a dollar? Wouldn't you always be able to convert SBD to any other cryptocurrency via an exchange? Are you saying the SBD-STEEM exchange on the blockchain would stop? Or is it currently possible to redeem SBD for STEEM in a way that takes the SBD out of circulation?

Hey man I actually am creating a new account for a upvote bot and was wondering if you still run them for people but I need to try to get some more steem power first.

I don’t really know how to actually make a bot and was just wondering how I could turn the account into one

hey Matt,

Pardon my posting off-topic here, however I've been unable to message you a few times I tried in our previous thread in Discord because it keeps saying we don't share a server (so if you can advise on what server I *could* join connect to so as to pick up that chat thread, that'd be great too)...

I've encountered a **significant** issue with Steemit. As there's no centralized technical support to contact regarding it, I'm reaching out to *you,* given our last chat where you were able to pass on the matter to other witnesses and the appropriate team that may have been able to act on it.

In short, it appears there is no way to scroll back to see posts on my blog that are older than one year.

I just published [a post about it here](https://steemit.com/steemit/@rok-sivante/wtf-steemit-posts-older-than-a-year-can-t-be-viewed-anymore).

If you could pass it on to the appropriate developers, or advise how to report the matter, I'd much appreciate it, as this is kind of a big deal that SteemitInc. really needs to address if there's any hope of being taken as a professional platform catering to the needs of authors publishing here.

Thanks much. 🙏

I bought a sound at @boomerang but I wasn't upvote and the funds were not returned as usual


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