You are operating under the assumption that ICN represents ownership of anything. One of the concerns is that the token 'ICN' is now completely divorced from the platform, and serves purely as a stake in the company's success, with its value driven by nothing but speculation. Under this sort of set-up, the value of the token is not necessarily driven by the success of the platform.
How is that different than previous profits distribution way, aka dividends, or from any other company in the world?
How is ICN completely divorced from the platform? Currently it's backed up by Iconomi assets - ICO money, ICNP and ICNX funds. the rest is speculation for future success.
How is that different than any other stock out there? If the company products/services are used by a lot of people, and the company has a solid business model - this will drive tits stock price up.
Same with Iconomi
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was backed up by the assets when dividends were going to be paid from the profits realised, and when people were more convinced they actually owned something. That gave the token value in the form of a 'passive income'.
I have explained this before. The connection is purely psychological now (not my words... the words of people who favour buybacks)
I might be wrong. I've said that too. But I am explaining the reasons behind people's concerns, and why more information is required from the team.
There's a number of ways of looking at it, and not all of them are positive. This is why people are asking questions, and want answers.
People like you have just been replying with "best case" responses, which aren't backed by any concrete information. Again, as I've stated before, you should be encouraging the team to respond to the concerns people have raised - not attempting to respond to them yourself. There's no point, because people don't want YOUR answers. They want the team to answer.
It's just irritating when somebody talks about these things, and the only response they get is a random user giving some silly calculation based on reduced supply, or some other baseless theory about why this system will work.
You all seem to think you're the experts with all of the answers, and people with questions aren't "enlightened" enough to understand the methods of the wise and powerful gods of Iconomi
lol
what is people like me? And who nominated you to represent the voice of the "disappointed" and the concerned?
Last time I checked, it was a forum, and by its definition, people discuss things, it is not an official AMA channel.
Anyway, your explanation about the backed up assets makes no sense. Same goes for the over-chewed dividends. You don't know how that would work too. The main thing is Iconomi generating profits.
If you, or anyone else bought in due to ethereum dividends and hoped to open a long accumulating position - just go and buy ethereum.
At the moment there are several things that are required from the team:
1. Keep developing the platform and release it to the public
2. PR, updates and the rest of the semi whining requests
Since we are still in beta, I think keep developing is more important.