Dear forum readers,
As the LEOcoin Foundation has up to now made no official statements that I could use to answer your questions, I will give my
personal opinion on this.
As indeed, some of the LEOcoin Foundation leaders are involved in LEO Ltd., the LEOcoin Foundation's support for the LEO network might easily be misrepresented or dramatized by trolls and FUDers, but hey, they will do their jobs at whatever happens to LEOcoin … so …
But FUD and trolls aside – there are perhaps sensible reasons for incentivising current and new LEO members. One of these reasons that comes to my mind would be, that the LEOcoin community to a large extent is made up by LEO members in the first place and keeping them connected with their own coin is generally a good thing. Another reason might be, that - unlike many ICO that raised millions, but now are below ICO prices - LEOcoin has been a remarkably stable coin and spreading a well performing coin, is sound praxis.
The supporting and incentivising done by the LEOcoin Foundation is part of the Foundations’ tasks while building the LEOcoin community. The LEOcoin Foundations capital was granted to the Foundation specifically for such purposes and as the factual LEO member base is large and still growing, joining in on that growth, will also secure growth of the LEOcoin community itself. Then, unlike many ICO tokens that are far below 50,000 unique addresses on the ETH-chain, the LEOcoin community has far more holders and growing that number is important, as the more people are involved with LEOcoin in a positive way, the better it is for the LEOcoin community as a whole – a clear case of the Wikonomics principle.
As LEOcoin will move to the ETH-chain, the functionality and chain-development of the Ethereum blockchain will add many benefits and opportunities to LEOcoin itself and for its holders. To attract extra attention from new holders and users of LEOcoin at this moment, is strategically sound, I think, then, if we double the community, and double it again, everyone wins.
As mentioned earlier, this is my personal private opinion on the case and NOT an official statement of the LEOcoin Foundation, which may - or may not - be given later on. And, being a LEOcoin community member myself, I just as anyone here, am entitled to ventilate my own thoughts, some now and then. Nevertheless, I hope to have presented you readers with some arguments, that, although not officially stated, are likely to have played some kind of role in the decisions at LEOcoin Foundation headquarters.
If someone wishes to discuss with me about my private opinion, please contact me with a PM. As this is not an official statement, I see no reason to discuss this broadly on the forum. For more information, about the why and how and from what ‘account’ it is financed, we shall have to wait for an official and binding statement.