Steem Dollar remains high above the $1.00 peg
The SBD value is currently at $1.62. That means if you use the wallet SBD -> Steem conversion tool, you will be losing out on approximately $0.62 worth of Steem for every 1 SBD you convert. You are far better off using the Steemit Internal Market to trade your SBD for STEEM at the current market rate.
SBD->Steem Conversions on the Rise
The increased payouts and flood of new users is causing increased conversions to include the account :-p
Current Bandwidth issues
The new account is running into bandwidth limitations is executing transactions. The reward from the first introductory post is due in 3 days which will be powered up to end the issue.
Continued manual notifications
I have not gotten around to writing a program to send out notifications for me. They are all manual for now, I'm willing to 25 Steem to anyone who can write a python app for sending out notifications to all users who start the conversion (checking to ensure I am not sending repeat messages).