DVC coin is so ancient coin of the period of the formation of Bitcoin, and it is not clear what hundred of coinmarketcap, as an investor, I would not risk investing in it
Well maybe it is a little bit like FIAT currencies, at present, in the sense that maybe it is not so much something you want to "invest" in "holding" but, rather, something in which you want to increase your income?
That is to say, DeVCoin is still more of a coin in which people are paid than one which they hoard away in their mattress while it quietly gets more and more valuable while they do nothing with it.
There are still quite a few new DeVCoins being minted, so a given numer of them is a smaller and smaller percentage of all that exist. So to keep abreast of that "inflation" (of the coin supply) you ideally want to increase the number of them that you bring in per paycheque or income cycle, as it were.
The inflation is not large, as such things go, and it keeps getting smaller and smaller proportionately over time, but still if you just want to "store value" there are more-effective vehicles.
We are still in early days, as it were; building infrastructure, a DeVCoin economy.
Also it is arguable that the minting of new DeVCoins is not being spent as wisely as it could be, since apparently most of it gets spent on "articles" for the Devtome wiki that are arguably not very well chosen for their ability or even likelihood to bring in income.
It has been a long time since just having a whole lot of pages of related articles full of keywords would bring in "organic" web traffic from search engines and such; nowadays you need a lot of social media activity along with that and gosh knows what else to compete for traffic, plus the articles are not actually all that related necesarilly so I strongly suspect that hoping to get advertising revenue from them is a long-folorn hope, that what is really necessary is for the articles themselves to be in effect advertisements, ideally all the articles should explain our projects, increase our projects, make readers interested in our projects, show readers how to get involved in our projects, and maybe show readers how well participants in our projects are doing and how.
(Like maybe if more of the players who are doing well in the
Galactic Milieu wrote about their success, and more new players just starting to dip their toes into the Milieu wrote useful articles about how they found their way in, how they set themselves up, tips and tricks for how they improved their lot in the game and suchlike...)
The
Galactic Milieu is designed to involve its various coins into economies, in gaming we often refer to this as "gold sinks", over time more and more of the coins get "buried" deeper and deeper into the game, never again to get sold on the open market driving down coin prices as long as the game shall run. Ideally the game never ends and more and more coins get tied up into various game Corps, Nations, Civilisations, even into game real-estate.
Now of course "investing", where the
Galactic Milieu is concerned, is something that should be thought about as a character within the game rather than as a player. As a player you might even in a sense be tempted to undermine the entire thing by trying to take value out of the game into realms the inhabitants of the game mostly do not believe in, such as the mythical "
planet known as Earth".
Since DeVCoin is a currency within the game though, and its inflation rate even on the mythical planet known as Earth is constantly decreasing, it is still believable that someday the DeVCoins you accumulate within the game will someday be quite valuable here on Earth, perhaps especially in view of the fact that like other "
alternate reality games" Earth does ultimately figure in the game despite most inhabitants of the game universe's disbelief that such a place as Earth actually exists.
So if you wish to think in terms of "investing", I suggest you think not in terms of "investing" directly into DeVCoins themselves but, rather, into endeavors that bring in an income measurable or even denominated in DeVCoins.
Take a look for example at the lists of DeVCoin-denominated shares mentioned on the menu / links-list at
https://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/digitalisassets.html and the associated Company Assets Summary. There are Corps in the game whose shares characters can buy on the HORIZON platform that accumulate in value not necessarily directly by increasing the per coin value of coins but by accumulating larger and larger numbers of coins, so that even if coins go down in value the Corps can hope to keep up by increasing the number of coins in their inventories / treasuries / warchests / assets.
Take a look at the
General Financial Corp thread in these forums for example, at
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/general-financial-corp-gfc-61557 to see how well that Corp has done over time, and consider how many DeVCoins your character could get nowadays by selling shares of GFC that it picked up way back in the beginning when it first sold shares at only 20 DeVCoins per share. (As I write, the Latest Rates file shows them to have been valued at sGFCrate=2911365.47530385 DeVCoins per share the last time the rates were figured out.)
That is way the heck more DeVCoins, for the entire million shares, than will exist for many many years yet of minting, heck maybe centuries (Earth time) of minting! So your characters would be way the heck better off having invested their DeVCoins into shares than they would be by simply burying the coins in their backyards or hiding them under a mattress.
Darn look at my word count, I should have made a Devtome article of this post.
-MarkM-
