It's like the example of the burger joint that I used earlier. If my buddy asked me "hey man, can you lend me $5 so that I can buy a burger"? I wouldn't even think to asked him "Only if you will secure the loan with $5".
I may ask him for his lucky charm, or something. But I wouldn't loan him something, to be secured by the exact same thing. ROFL makes no sense.
Your loan would be a collateral loan. If you were to take your friends money and not pay him back either by repaying him the $5 or by buying him of equal value in the future despite your ability to do so then he would probably not be friends with you anymore. Collateral does not need to be in the form of cash but does need to be something greater then the amount being borrowed.
My point the whole time is that coin is coin. I am looking at this like Litecoin is basically the same thing as bitcoin. It holds a steady value to bitcoin, and it trades into bitcoin almost effortlessly on dozens of different exchanges.
Litecoin is as close to Bitcoin, as metal coins minted by a central org is to paper coins minted by the same org. Because it converts so easily back and forth.
So if someone (anyone) wanted to borrow $5, either I am going to borrow him the money, or I may ask to hold on to a token. But I am not going to ask him for an equal amount of currency to hold on to, if he could just as easily use that currency to buy the burger.
It would be like charging him interest on his own money. Lenders earn interest based on risk. So if a lender is holding this guy's money as collateral. The bank is earning money for nothing, because the lender is charging him interest on his own money. I guess it's like one of those silly secured credit cards. Where you put money in the bank, and then borrow against it for the sole purpose of raising your credit. Im not here to increase my credit rating. I am here to get an interest based loan, where everyone wins.
But I am not going to pay interest to borrow my own money. If for example I borrowed $0.50 cents from you. You gave me two quarters, and I let you hang on to 5 dimes for me. And for this service, you would only charge me 1% interest.
WTF? Are you serious? No one is going to give you an equal amount of currency, just to pay you interest on their own money. That is the most retarded ponzi scheme that I have ever heard of.
What is this the Federal Reserve banking committee meeting? ROFL
I can't stand it any more. I can no longer take this thread seriously.
I also find it very interesting that you have a "few hundred" LTC for operating capital for bitcoin ATM. This really does not make any sense. Assuming that a few hundred means 300 then you have roughly 2.9 BTC worth of LTC, which would really not be enough to fund your ATM's operation. IIRC the Robocoin website suggests that you have at least $20,000 "float" for each ATM and you have far from this much.
I think you are catching on to #1. Why I need to borrow coin. and #2 why I prefer to borrow coin over fiat.
Yes, I need operating capital, this is what I have been telling this thread this whole time. This is the whole point! LOL
Even if you were being honest and do repay if you are able to, you are essentially taking no risks with your business as all you are putting in is "sweat equity" while putting all the risk on the lender.
I have offered a lot of risk. Say for example that all that I gave was a lien on my car, and the title, in exchange for the loan.
That is still a risk, because without the title, and with a lien agreement, that car is of no monetary value to me. I can't sell a car twice, that would cause me criminal penalties. So if there was a lien on my car, and I sold it without paying off the lien, if that is even possible, I think it would catch up to someone and bite them in the ass later legally. There has to be some kind of theft or deception in that. I do know it's possible to put a lien on a vehicle, and I have offered up a vehicle, therefore I am assuming risk. Cars are not all that I have offered also, I have offered a lien on my debt free home, for a larger loan.
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