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Topic: Silverspotcoins silver backing (Read 742 times)

newbie
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August 26, 2014, 05:34:35 PM
#5
if you wanted to back a coin with metal you should be ready to ship the metal worldwide 365 days a year. If i can't get metal for coins delivered to my house it is most likely a scam. (some may not agree but that's how i see it)

You also need a central point for it (the backer).
So to have an asset-backed and at the same time truely decentralized coin is not possible. Or is it?

Unobtanium might be a coin that in the future is backed by metal in a decentralized way. Many investors (each for themselves and privately) could start trading for metal and/or putting out other backing-ideas.
So Unobtanium could be backed with silver by myself and others too in the future.
It's still the future though.



Personally I believe the reason Bitcoin hasn't taken off properly is because it has no backing. Why is it worth $500? Why does it swing from $300 to $600. Because people do not have faith in its price. Backing brings with it stability because people know that the value of the cryptocurrency can never reach $0. Bitcoin cannot boast that. Yes, Bitcoin is a technologically genius, but in the real world people want backing. Which is why we have banks. I like having someone who can reverse payments if I make a mistake. So yes I agree this is not a decentralised coin. Its sort of half and half. I think crypto is the future don't get me wrong, however I believe that to establish itself, and to gain trust from the world it needs a backing of some sort. People are to weary of it to start investing large amounts of their money into it. In the past it has been precious metals which have successfully done this.

PS. Apparently you can ship the Silver bullion. Read it in the FAQ. 
member
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August 26, 2014, 05:20:12 PM
#4
if you wanted to back a coin with metal you should be ready to ship the metal worldwide 365 days a year. If i can't get metal for coins delivered to my house it is most likely a scam. (some may not agree but that's how i see it)

You also need a central point for it (the backer).
So to have an asset-backed and at the same time truely decentralized coin is not possible. Or is it?

Unobtanium might be a coin that in the future is backed by metal in a decentralized way. Many investors (each for themselves and privately) could start trading for metal and/or putting out other backing-ideas.
So Unobtanium could be backed with silver by myself and others too in the future.
It's still the future though.

hero member
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August 26, 2014, 04:04:35 PM
#3
A flawed concept. Crypto currency is meant to be decentralised. A backed crypto is entirely reliant on a person's word that your coins are worth the asset they are holding. You're expected to trust these assets exist, will continue to exist, and that this guarantees the crypto a minimum base value.

This might have worked for banks, once, and perhaps it works for large corporations, but on this level? No. Absolutely not.
legendary
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August 26, 2014, 03:57:35 PM
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Was wondering what the community thinks about coins with backings. Are they important for crypto?



They're a horrible, misguided, ultimately destructive distraction. You cannot "back" a crypto-currency and still have it retain the primary feature which makes the entire thing interesting/valuable: decentralization. If something is "backed" by something else, that necessitates some entity to guarantee the backing/redeemability/etc. All crypto-backed coins are therefore just centralized tokens with a blockchain thrown in; either to confuse people into thinking they're something new, or because of a genuine misunderstanding of what decentralized crypto-currency is all about.

Backed coins will eventually fail in one of the ways every prior attempt at non-decentralized digital money has failed, not least of which is the single-point-of-attack for governments (see eGold).


And in this particular case, the project seems to have ripped off the domain name for my site: spotcoins.com
newbie
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August 26, 2014, 03:33:42 PM
#1
I have recently come across www.silverspotcoin.com


Was wondering what the community thinks about coins with backings. Are they important for crypto?
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