Ok so I have read everything, all the papers pictures etc. One thing I cannot reconcile, maybe someone could explain it to me.
Why would anyone, at present, accept URO for Urea? they would be receiving a huge amount less than if they accepted USD and would lose a vast sum of money on the deal.
I put myself in the seller position, someone comes up to me and says, here you go mate, please accept 12500 URO for this purchase of a shipment of Urea. I look at the price of URO and say 'you mad bro? give me 375K USD or get the fuck out of here.
What is the motivation for the seller to accept the URO on this deal?
They can hold the URO until it reaches whatever the price of 1 MT of UREA is, and then they have not lost anything...
Yes, the first person to buy urea with URO at this price is going to get an amazing deal, but if the seller does not sell the URO until they are equal in price to 1 MT of urea then they have not lost anything.
This just exemplifies one of the exact purposes of this coin- Imagine urea right now was only ~200 dollars a metric TONNE and you think the price will rise to the price of ~300 dollars in the future so you want to buy a bunch (lets say 12500 MTs) of urea now and store it to use or because you want to resell it for a profit. Assume that it is not logistically possible for you to store that much urea for the length of time that you desire. And now assume that URO is already pinned to the price of urea. Instead of buying 12500 MTs of urea, you can simply buy 12500 URO- something which is easy for anybody to store and trade.