When will SBDs start printing again?

Short answer: we don't know because it depends on future prices of STEEM, but... we can find the earliest time that it's possible. The earliest possible time is Thursday around 8am GMT.

First, here are the thresholds (assuming no coding errors or misunderstandings on my part):

Price: $ 0.2180
STEEM supply: 496539914
SBD supply (cap): 12520066
STEEM Market Cap (calculated): 108245701
SBD supply (cap) / STEEM CAP: 0.1157
SBD print rate: 0 (calculated), 0 (queried)


Lower threshold: 0.252146
Upper threshold: 0.280162

So, when/if the median price of STEEM reaches 0.252, SBDs would start printing again, and when/if the median price of STEEM reaches 0.280, liquid STEEM would stop paying in post payouts. All liquid rewards would come in the form of SBD. Between 0.252 and 0.280, the liquid rewards come in a mix of SBD and STEEM. So, how long will it take before SBDs might start printing?

The current price feed is below, in sorted order and numbered (collected at 1358 GMT). The price feed has 84 entries (3 ¹/₂ days), collected hourly, so if we sort the list, the 42^nd and 43^rd entries would have to average to a value above 0.252.

As you can see, the only value that is 0.252 or above is the last entry, slot #84. So, that value needs to be matched by another one that's above 0.252, and both need to advance from position number 84 to positions 42 and 43.

In short, if STEEM holds its current price, the earliest that SBDs might start printing again is in about 42 hours (1 ³/₄ days), or Thursday at about 8am GMT. Of course, if STEEM falls below $0.252 again, it will take longer - and it might not even happen.

Here is a bash command to refresh the price feed:

curl -s --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"condenser_api.get_feed_history", "params":[], "id":1}' https://api.upvu.org | jq -Src '.result.price_history[] | .base, .quote' | sed -n '$!N;s/\n/ /g;p;d' | awk '{print $1}' | sort -n | cat -n

 1  0.198
 2  0.200
 3  0.204
 4  0.204
 5  0.207
 6  0.208
 7  0.208
 8  0.208
 9  0.208
10  0.208
11  0.209
12  0.209
13  0.209
14  0.209
15  0.210
16  0.210
17  0.210
18  0.210
19  0.211
20  0.211
21  0.211
22  0.212
23  0.213
24  0.213
25  0.213
26  0.213
27  0.213
28  0.214
29  0.215
30  0.215
31  0.215
32  0.216
33  0.216
34  0.216
35  0.216
36  0.217
37  0.217
38  0.217
39  0.217
40  0.217
41  0.218

42 0.218 <<<- Median values
43 0.218 <<<- Median values

44  0.219
45  0.219
46  0.220
47  0.220
48  0.220
49  0.220
50  0.220
51  0.221
52  0.221
53  0.222
54  0.222
55  0.223
56  0.223
57  0.225
58  0.226
59  0.226
60  0.226
61  0.227
62  0.227
63  0.228
64  0.228
65  0.228
66  0.228
67  0.228
68  0.229
69  0.230
70  0.230
71  0.230
72  0.238
73  0.238
74  0.239
75  0.239
76  0.241
77  0.241
78  0.241
79  0.242
80  0.242
81  0.246
82  0.248
83  0.250
84  0.252