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> What gives the C-Corp shares value A business is a productive asset. Cryptocurrency tokens are not.
by ac29 5y ago
> What gives the C-Corp shares value
A business is a productive asset. Cryptocurrency tokens are not.
- joshspankit 5y agoYour definition of a business might be a “an organization that produces a product”, but that is not the legal definition. A business can even legally be a bundle of paperwork that owns someone’s nice car. Business (noun) is not a productive asset.
- bradleybuda 5y agoIn the rare case that a business actually produces nothing, in bad faith, we call that a scam, and fraud, and people go to jail. The same standard does not exist for "tokens".
- joshspankit 5y agoSorry, this perspective is wrong on both counts: 1) There are literally millions of empty and bad-faith businesses that you never hear about because they successfully fly under the radar 2) People definitely (though, to your point: not the general public yet) call out some tokens as being scams. It’s much more of a “wild west” (aka: lots of dirty business going on that no one knows how to identify much less stop), but people in the space can pretty easily tell if a token has integrity or not. Look at Beeple, for example. I think most people who read the story would agree he’s not scamming.
- rsynnott 5y agoNo-one would buy shares in such a thing, tho. Unless they lied about what it was doing, but, well, ask Elizabeth Holmes how well that's going.
- drcongo 5y agoHas Uber made a profit yet?
- JesseAldridge 5y agoThere is value in able to send and receive money more easily.