How does a coin created from thin air back itself with a physical product?
Farmers will buy Urea with Uro but they have to buy Uro from the Market, or did they turn in their shovels for Video Cards and start mining coin? Do the Farmers understand that they will be buying Uro at Spot prices based on thousands of miners selling coin for their own profitability?
Unless I am missing a point of Uro somewhere, we may as well call this out as a different type of Fertilizer. How many Tonnes of Urea are there?
The Farmer made his fortune in the Field, bet the Farm, play the Field! 7 Out!
its a payment vehicle meant to hedge rising prices, and/or circumvent double digit interest rates found by interacting with banks internationally. as a hedge you can buy urocoin now knowing that if urea went from 300$ to 400$ your urocoin tokens you bought at 300$ will get you the ammt of urea you budgeted for not 30% less. as for banking, obviously bitcoin is not very liquid a market and youd have to convert fiat to btc to urocoin (until uroex is off the ground) but if the transfer process costs less than 10% you save money because banks charge over 10% for BCL and LC's where your bank takes its sweet ass time to tell their bank that you have the money so lets do a transaction. Also note... the niers are not manufacturers. they are backing 1 uro = 1MT urea for orders over 12500. just as they back orders of that size or larger paid in fiat as normal business. urocoin does not have the infrastructure to cater to farmers personally yet. obviously there is a value added chain that urea travels from manufacturer to nier, to distributer, to store, to farmer in whatever fashion is common for a particular country. its ridiculous to think that a farmer could buy 1 ton of urea from the local agricultural supply store for 1 urocoin. the protocol is set for national import export level businesses. in the future if distributors or retail outfits wanted to accept uro for their customers they would be welcome to set a multiplier that resembles the percent markup they are used to charging to make their money as well. it could look something like .8 uro = 1mt from manufacturers, 1=1 from niers, 1.2=1 for distributors, 1.4=1 for retail.
I see the value in taking leverage away from Bankers, I also see now that the Uro may rise and fall but still grant the product to the trader making the Product more stable. But in the end the people making money from the Buying and Selling of the Uro is where my concern is. Since the Coin was made from nothing and held by people paying electricity to mine and their investment was possibly to mine LiteCoin initially which has already seen its ROI. The money made from the coin will be more than the market worth at first. Once every coin is mined and sold the trading of the coin will be exponential since buyers will be shorted since the coin was initially sold from a perceived value and profit will be taken for sure. Why would holders want to hold this coin when the Banks could actually own the coin now for all we know. Then the banks could manipulate the market again. This is a noble cause being taken advantage of from the building of the coin.
Lets say I want to build a coin and back it with Bubble Gum. I create the coin and get in on the initial Launch and get a big portion of the mining until it gets massive amounts of miners involved. I could hold most of the coin at that point. (I will have to investigate the Blockchain of Uro to see how it went from the start.) But I could hold a large portion at low diff. Now every buyer of Bubble Gum Coin now has 1 coin to 1 pack of bubble gum. The Bubble Gum manufacturers could flood the market with Gum and lower the price deflating my coin. Then they buy in. Then they create a shortage of Bubble Gum and the price rises, they sell off their coin. Meanwhile I cashed in my free coins at the low and the high since I don't care my coins were free. Then I go build another coin backed by Gummy Bears and sell those coins to people. I could care less about the struggles of the Gummy Bear makers as long as I can sell my coins to people who believe the price will go up in a Bear market and I sell during the Bull.