We believe that it would be inaccurate to say that the market for Belacam would be smaller than Steemit. Steemit is often compared to Reddit, and Belacam is similar to Instagram. Reddit (valuation $4 billion) is approximately 10.8% the size of Instagram (valuation $37 billion). We are taking the basic idea of Steemit and applying it to a market that is 9.25 times larger. Consider that we are shooting for the moon with our valuations, and we hope that if we miss the target, we still land somewhere among the stars with a valuation in the tens of millions of dollars. We're putting in the work that would be necessary to reach such a target.
To make Belacoin more valuable, it is clear that it needs more uses. We are attracting independent entrepreneurs to use Belacoin as their blockchain of choice when building their small business. This is being accomplished through the Belacoin Invest Initiative (BII) that we will fully reveal on December 22nd:
http://Belacoin.org/invest.
Belacoin is not stock in Belacam; we've fully detailed this in earlier posts on this thread, but Belacam is a private and independent organization from Belacoin. In the same way that Bitcoin is not stock in Coinbase but rather Coinbase enables Bitcoin, so does Belacam to Belacoin.
Also, as explained in previous posts, the way that we aim to make money is through a successful exit from Belacam. If we build up Belacam well, we can make money by selling Belacam to other investors or entrepreneurs. Similarly, an IPO is a distant but not discountable possibility. Likewise, Belacam could be bought through an acquisition from some large tech player like Facebook or Google. Acquisitions are a common way for founders to receive their exit paycheck, and the project continues on with nearly unlimited funding and even better talent. If Belacam gets acquired by a top 100 firm, it is likely that their expertise and work would play a significant role in preventing Belacoin from falling into a dying, declining phase. Browse through
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet to see some of the acquisitions and the numbers that they fetch.
The value of Belacam is of course linked to the value of Belacoin, to an extent. The Steemit founders would likely have been able to sell Steemit for a lot more when the Steem market cap was at its peak rather than now. If we ever act in a way that tears Belacoin down, Belacam gets torn down with it. This would be extremely irrational since a successful acquisition of Belacam could easily net millions of dollars for the Ambia Fund.
We draw from our own experience in venture capital and entrepreneurship to know what it takes for a business to receive VC funding and reach an exit opportunity.