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I think lots of people completely understand the appeal of ETH but also realise it has so many issues the market cap is completely imaginary. Decentralised any
by mpeg 9y ago
I think lots of people completely understand the appeal of ETH but also realise it has so many issues the market cap is completely imaginary.
Decentralised anything is an awful market strategy, it works for some things where regulation gets in the way (AKA issues that are hard to solve in a legal way).
Ironically, p2p crowdfunding has been the killer application of cryptocurrency so far, since it's tricky to do that legally and it turns out if you ICO with crypto you can just take the money and run.
I don't believe ETH will succeed to the extent people are hoping it to, long term, I think the real market cap should be a fraction of what it is today. But I'm not stupid; I still made a bunch of money trading it and riding the hype.
- dageshi 9y agoI'm speaking on a broader more long term view. Crypto currencies have the possibility to expand into what is arguably the biggest market of them all, money. In the same sense that many previous distruptive technologies did (mp3, video codecs for music/entertainment). Many mp3 based startups failed, so did many streaming/content selling startups but the trend was ultimately sound. Nobody really knows what bets will pay off but people are placing bets none the less in the same way they placed bets on startups before.