Here's what really got me excited about this currency when reading one of the papers:
In the early days, cryptocurrencies were mined through hashing power. Since the release of Bitcoin, this hashing power has used a tremendous amount of energy and has resulted in large miners controlling a majority say in future developments of the currency. Timereum is trying to fix some of these issues by creating a new type of mining system called proof of completion (POC). Is this statement even correct? It's really only doing it for smart contracts, not competing with Bitcoin, correct? Maybe I'm missing something.
Where I'm also confused
- Awesome, so we have POC system. But really the only people that can mine are the people that got in early with the airdrop (correct me if I'm wrong). So if I buy up TME on an exchange, I can't mine it, which gets rid of the coolness factor of the coin for me as a holder correct? I'm just holding on for value and really nothing else. I get none of the advantages of the people that got the coin from the airdrop.
- Here's a direct quote from the dev, "This coin can be used as a base token to create many more coins and manually generating contracts." this has me even more confused. Can someone explain what are some examples of good uses for this coin vs say Bitcoin? Why are the advantages and disadvantages, dumb this down for me (is this just a way to replace lending services, or is that just one of the features). After trying to go through all the papers more than once, I see some cool possibilities, but I'm not connecting the dots.
You should not be confuse this is great opportunity for anyone .
For this to be a great opportunity people have to understand it, which starts with people like you explaining it to people like me that don't understand the opportunity. Hopefully you or someone else can clear it up for me.
The preface is mainly a comment on ways to reduce or redirect energy use.
The lending system will be a new smart contract token that uses a similar mining system to TME. TME will be able to be burned and converted to this new currency at a conversion ratio. This will increase the value per TME. Anyone will be able to mine the new token, regardless of whether they bought the token on an exchange or converted TME. TME genesis holders will have certain privileges concerning the conversion of non-mined TME batches.
TME will also be convertible to future projects after the lending service. You can think of TME as the token that lays the conceptual groundwork for many more services, and which can be converted into holdings of them in the future.
The mining system with the new token is one and the same with the lending service. When a borrower and a lender complete a successful loan or the borrower pays off an installment, both parties will benefit. You can read about specific examples
here.There are precautions put in place to prevent infinite mining, and ETH collateral will be able to be posted by the borrower if desired.