The question is not "if", but "when".
Depends on the "what" ;-)
What I really like is: Factom is in it's early stage but right before big steps with Milestone 2. Paul Snow writes:
"Milestone 2 will have a couple of major components. First will be the deployment of a Entry Credit store, where users can buy Entry Credits (basically access to the protocol) without touching any sort of tradable token. The second will be the release of the consensus algorithm, the software supporting distributed processing of the Factom protocol. We are working to have the first release candidate of the consensus algorithm by the end of the year. We fully expect to release a few release candidates prior to going into production with the consensus algorithm early in 2016." What that means is:
Both, the Entry-Credit-Store and the first "candidate of the consensus algorithm" will make it easier to get access to the system, with other words: For now I would consider those two aspects as very important to make Factom really useful and attractive. And when it comes to the "when": The next 1-2 months I would guess and Factom is at a point to get traction.
Just this is already a nice step:
* Bitcoin data service of prices from different exchanges recorded on Factom's Blockchain - Q1 2016
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-baas-update-2/Everybody can imagine what would happen, if there should be a also a decision of one or even more exchanges to record trades about Factom. ;-) And that would be just one use case with great demand for EC's and therefore also for FCT's. If we think outside the Crypto-World, and Factom has it all to play a role there... At the moment and out of Incestor-perspective, I would say it has more potential than ETH.
Could you prove the community your trust in this project by showing the amount you are invested in FCT?
Why would I do that?
If you do that, other investors like me would probably get in this [Suspicious link removed]d for you since you could theoretically exit your position.
So it's about the question if I try to "write people into this" to dump my FCT's and maybe I have that much that it would crash it? I mean, if I just have 1000 FCT's or even less it would maybe seem as if I don't have much trust in this. At the same time it wouldn't mean anything because I could be out of money but invested with all I have ;-).
If I would have 100k people could have the fear I could crash the market. I never give precise infos about my investments because I don't see sense in that. And even if you would have exact infos about me, there are a lot of other small and big and bigger Investors you won't have infos about and nobody can predict individual reactions. Tomorrow somebody could buy in with much money, or somebody could dump a lot of FCT's because he needs money out of a personal situation. At the moment the market is no real indicator about the project. In my opinion exactly that is an opportunity.
Generally, in my opinion the decision to invest or not to invest shouldn't be about short-term-market-reactions or individual Investors. What I can say about my view and situation: I won't sell in short term as far as I don't see anything that's totally concerning and there is not a single sign for something like that. I believe that there will be some more good news in short-term, and before all: Great potential in mid-term and long-term.
My advice to everybody is: Research... to take some time to understand it as deep as possible. It can make a huge difference to invest some time.
1. the "what": the idea and the consequences (possible scenarios, best-case, worst-case, what is most likely etc. )
2. the "how": how they do it, it's design, the development
3. the team: professionals? trusted? honest? skilled?
And I really believe that this project is totally underestimated and therefore also undervalued, maybe because too many don't have a good overview about it, so they are not able to evaluate it, based on analyzing it and possible scenarios. The economy seems to be very complex on first sight, so people maybe often don't get how elegant it is and how useful it will be when it comes to use, how it will be possible to be decentralized and without the need for cryptocurrencies for customers etc.
But, like I said: It's just my personal view. Everybody has to make his own decision.
