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RE: SwiftCash Pre-Proposal: Hard Fork/Reset - Zombies, Inflation & Collaterals

in #swiftproposal6 years ago

Hi @msg768, if I may make a suggestion, while it is true that you are not obligated to act as a customer service representative for SwiftCash, I would argue that the only reason any cryptocurrency performs well is because the large and moderate holders of the coin frequently act as advocates for it.

I agree with you that it is perfectly fine for anyone to create a coin or token for any reason they wish, such as simply to be a competing currency. However, I think that you will find that as more and more projects get built the skepticism, such as @oldtimer displayed, about the value of the project will increase and new tokens and coins will be obligated to prove that they solve some sort of problem.

The Hobo token project, as an example, has created a Steem Engine-based token for the purpose of facilitating contests within the wide Steem ecosystem. Although the Hobo token (ticker symbol: HBO) could be used for many things, such as to reach final settlement on value transfers, it has a fundamental use case which is covering submission fees for entrance into the contest. The HoboDAO is a decentralized community forming a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) on Steem. In order to incentivize our delegators and operators we need to compensate them some way, and ideally in a decentralized way. That is why submission fees are required for entry.

So, that is an example of a fundamental use case for a cryptocurrency. It can of course do more than the fundamental utility, but it at least needs a foundational sink.

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LOL yeah you totally convinved me to buy your token now!

Sorry for replying to an 8 month comment, I actually did not realize it was so old when I replied.

I am not trying to convince you to value this token, and while earners of the token have bought and sold the token the Hobo project main accounts have neither bought nor sold any on the market.

My only intention was pointing out that suspicion is a natural reaction for people toward coins after the first original coins. After all, why have 3000-30,000 currencies? It makes no sense to do that, thus people often ask "what is the use" of a coin. A coin or token needs to have value beyond just being "money" and the money aspect will follow naturally.

Also, I intended to convey that a project has to have advocates to succeed. The projects that will not survive are the ones that only have investors/earners that have no intention on advocating for it.