Thanks, I didn't even think of looking at the website. So, it looks like almost 50% have already been mined. If that is a true statement, I'm a bit surprised that so many have already mined.
Well, this is what you would expect from an airdrop. But you should remember that mined coins does not always mean sold coins.
I like this concept, you wait more - receive more, but in my opinion 10 years is way too much for a 4x gain in coins (12500 - 50000). I think it would be much more interesting if the starting point was 0 coins and you would earn 5000 each year, everybody would hold because only an idiot would dump right in the beginning. But on the other hand there are more coins in circulation right now and for those, who did not participate in the airdrop, it is much easier to join
I share your view. At the beginning of
time Timereum the dev didn't already have plans for the lending service yet. It was more of an experiment regarding how long people would wait to create their batches. I think if the devs were to create a new token today they would change the formula quite a bit.
Why is having a lower max supply good?
I asked myself the same question when dev team told in the ama that there will/ could be a conversion for, for example, 0.5 rate with a new coin.
While I understand the basics of this and can see that less coins = scarcity = higher price, I fail to understand the usability when the lending app is out. Isn't it better to have more coins with lower value in this case?
For this next situation this example:
- in the case of lower supply, 1 ELIX equals 10 EURO
- in the case of higher supply 1 ELIX equals 20 EURO cents
For example I meet a friend for a movie night at his house. I drive my car to his place, he calls me to bring in a few six packs. He loans me X amount of ELIX/ new coin for that. Let's be positive and say 1 ELIX for 10 EUR, so he sends me 1 ELIX.
I convert this ELIX to ETH and withdraw into fiat using whatever: btc ATM, crypto creditcard, you name it.
But..... because of the low supply this 1 ELIX is worth 10 EURO. So I will get that 10E. The 12 beers however are worth 6.68 EURO. The remaining 3.32 EURO would be untouched.
For this, isn't a higher max supply better? For example in this case 1 ELIX is 20 cents.
I could tell my friend while driving, that I need to be send around 7 EURO in ELIX. Also considering fees.
So this means 35 ELIX --> 35 x 20 cents = 7.
Wouldnt this be cheaper in the end?
Just shoot holes in my thinking, guys. What do you think about this?
If I fail to understand, pls tell me. Will study more and better.
You have to take into account the decimals. You can split up Elix into fractions so that you could, for instance, send 1.4356467 Elix to make it exactly the fiat value you need.
Supply is mostly irrelevant with 18 decimals. It's just that traders are always interested in holding a bigger share of the cake which allegedly is easier to achieve if there are fewer coins.