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I took a break from EOS testing to reflect on the SBD and Steem price differences. I've been hearing a lot of people bark about how inflated the SBD price is from what it should be. I'm going to dig a bit deeper but the one thing that I know is that the the market is always right. I've been seeing the bot market for SBD going up over the past few months which may be contributing to this phenomenon . There are many people using these bots to upvote their post. I wonder if this type of marketing was originally thought about in the design. If not, this could add a feature that decouples its price from $1. I can understand from a tax standpoint why someone would want to choose SBD instead of Steem for the bot function. Each time you move Steem though the bot you would be incurring a taxable event. Using SBD is more efficient for this process an preserves long-term cap gains for steem. I'm not a expert on this platform but wanted to share my ideas. Let me know your thoughts.