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Block.one’s sale of its digital tokens dwarfs other coin sales

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Re: Block.one’s sale of its digital tokens dwarfs other coin sales

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Am I an idiot for not understanding blockchain and ICO sales at all? Like, I get them somewhat in theory, but not understanding how they would actually be used?

There are a few (e.g. Kik, Brave) that claim the coins will be used in some sort of platform, that presumably will sustain the value of the currency.

However one should always be hesitant to believe these claims because there are no regulatory agencies currently protecting investors in the case of ICO fraud.

Re: Block.one’s sale of its digital tokens dwarfs other coin sales

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Is there any reason to believe 99.9% of the “purchases” are not just fake self-dealing?

Is there actually $4B USD equivalent tied up in Ethereum escrow somewhere, proof of stake style, or can the issuer not just “buy” their own tokens, tumble the “proceeds” for a bit, and “buy” some more?

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They're building EOS, they're probably going to be dumping Ethereum for the forseeable future. Pretty interesting strategy to be honest. Imagine raising your capital with the stock of another public company, then your proceed to continuously devalue said public company by dumping your shares in order to gain liquid capital to build your product. Edit: The most interesting thing to come out of the cryptocurrency is th…

That's why some of the more progressive platforms opt for a dual token model, separating the governance token from the utility token. The founders of one of these used the example that you wouldn't go into an Apple Store to buy an Apple product with Apple shares.

I assume you're talking about NEO :P

I work on this

https://o3.network/

Re: Block.one’s sale of its digital tokens dwarfs other coin sales

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're building EOS, they're probably going to be dumping Ethereum for the forseeable future. Pretty interesting strategy to be honest. Imagine raising your capital with the stock of another public company, then your proceed to continuously devalue said public company by dumping your shares in order to gain liquid capital to build your product. Edit: The most interesting thing to come out of the cryptocurrency is th…

That's why some of the more progressive platforms opt for a dual token model, separating the governance token from the utility token. The founders of one of these used the example that you wouldn't go into an Apple Store to buy an Apple product with Apple shares.

Why couldn't you though. The ONLY reason now is that it's not as liquid as cash, but that's sort of the point and what's so exciting about the layer of automation that the crypto platforms are bringing. If it has value you can use it directly in a trade, and if the receiver wants to hold there value in a different token, the exchange can be completely automated. This brings freedom to the holder, they can hold there value in anything they want, it's not longer determined by what the buyer will accept.

Re: Block.one’s sale of its digital tokens dwarfs other coin sales

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They should use the 4 billion to buy a crypto portfilio of coins with actual value. Litecoin and Ethereum would be a good start.

Litecoin and Ethereum don't have value either.

Nor does any currency with your "argument".

Re: Block.one’s sale of its digital tokens dwarfs other coin sales

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They should use the 4 billion to buy a crypto portfilio of coins with actual value. Litecoin and Ethereum would be a good start.

Litecoin and Ethereum don't have value either.

The value of Ethereum is determined by the supposed token utility. Which means it'll depend on what it is eventually used for.

Re: Block.one’s sale of its digital tokens dwarfs other coin sales

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That's why some of the more progressive platforms opt for a dual token model, separating the governance token from the utility token. The founders of one of these used the example that you wouldn't go into an Apple Store to buy an Apple product with Apple shares.

I assume you're talking about NEO :P I work on this https://o3.network/

NEO was one of the first, but there are many now. The dual token model is also popular with commodity tokens and stable coins. The separation of concerns does help prevent certain conflicts of interest.

I'll try to check out the mobile wallet sometime.

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