I don't think people get the main fact about pre-mine... The cost to maintain the price of the coin is ZERO.
Lets take Bitcoin for a moment and assume a price of 500 USD each....
25 new Bitcoins are produced ever 10 minutes... that is 3600 BTC a day... @ 500 USD we need to inject 1.8 MILLION dollars into the system just to maintain the price of 500 USD each.... or 657 million dollars a year.... Bitcoin has been doing this easily, admittedly and as the block rewards go down this will decrease. Eventually the bitcoin network will be supported only by transaction fees... and the price won't need the injection of capital to stay up... that is in the year 2160 or so.... OR
That day is NOW. Premine coin IS BTC in everyway, address space, sha256, 10 minute blocks etc..everything EXCEPT MNC has zero block awards.
And strangely it actually s distributed more evenly amongst it's users than Bitcoin itself... ( Think Winklevoss Twins etc )
Because no new coins are injected into the system there is ZERO price maintanence costs. We have skipped that entire era and do not even have the blockchain bloat the BTC has...
The PMC community was born with a pay it forward/giving mentality and even to this day someone will probably send you some free ones... This era will end eventually, but you certainly can get some on the cheap at the echanges....
This coin is similar to Unobtanium in it's rarity, improves on Unobtanium with a good community
( I give kudos to UNO though, very exciting stuff now )
I think PMC will find a niche in charity, wealth storage, and hopefully a steadier hedge against the wild fluctuations of more hyped coins ( Doge )
It is BTC, like BTC will be in the future... If PMC does well, that means BTC will continue to do well for the foreseable future...
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There'll be a lot of facepalming once Bitcoin stops minting, I agree.
PMC is in every sense BTC fastforwarded 10 years.
Most Bitcoins have been seized, lost, stolen or otherwise mishandled. The total amount in circulation in ten years time will be a mere fraction of 21 million. Also take into account that all you'll be mining is the transaction fees, and there you have it. PMC is a proof of concept of something that will eventually happen to Bitcoin.
The only thing Premine can't determine is whether or not BTC will survive the transition between minting and being able to mine transaction fees when the coin has an $8 billion+ market cap. PMC never had this issue as its market cap effectively began at 0.
Additionally, another major problem for Bitcoin is actually if it draws too much success. What if the price were 100-fold? What then? Could people even afford to send transactions to one another? What would be the lowest possible denomination to 1 cent or 1 penny?
At least PMC asks questions. Nobody is saying PMC will be as big as Bitcoin. We're not into hype. We're just saying it is Bitcoin's future. Unless Bitcoin changes its future, this is the model it will have. Like it or not.