this seems like a trivial thread but I was reading this today > https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@thecrytotrader/5-cryptocurrencies-which-are-more-expensive-then-bitcoin
this was published one year ago.
For example, the coin named 42-coin is by far the most expensive (at the time of the article it was above $50,000, right now it is still well above $15,000 per coin).
I know market capitalization matters much more than the actual price, but just curious, do you ever consider the actual price of the coin before buying? I mean what motivates people to buy these very expensive coins?
Any constructive opinion welcome.
Hey, Perfect. Thinking about the price of one coin is IMHO an error.
I've been interested in rare cryptos for a long time. Here are some thoughts: low volume is always a problem. So, bear that in mind.
The 'bottom line' is:
many coins are inflationary. And that is a downwards pressure on price. And all coins have accidental losses. And these help 'balance the numbers' where interest provides for increases in the total number of units.
And: the 'real' number of units in a currency is the number of 'whole coins' times the number of units in each coin. (And the tx fee can never be less than one of those units).
Here's the genius of 42-coin: it's deflationary: some tx fees are destroyed during transactions. And in the first place, there were only 42 times 100,000,000 units (standard 'sats' = 0.00000001)
So, any lost units are . . . lost. And meanwhile, the total number of units is being slowly whittled away. And in a world in which quantitative easing is creating phunnee munnee at stupendous rates, I find the notion of a hard-core deflationary 'instrument' a very interesting thing.
Note: check 42 on Livecoin. The amounts traded are tiny. No one is likely to ever put a whole coin on the market.