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Do you men the stable coin? Or coins backed by gold likely Digital Gold? 
Gold always has a high value. However, if an altcoin really rises that they are pegged tot the gold price, it may be stable or even drop again because the price of gold is sometimes increasing up so immediately.
In this case, it needs a very clear explanation about how the altcoins will be pegged into the fiat or gold. Yeah, it may decrease the volatility but it becomes stable coins. Not all people like the stable coins. This is also probably too difficult to choose a new stable coin like this for trading.
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Fiat is something but each different fiat is something else. The thing is we are talking about crypto forex right now and that is not really that far away and it scares me how awesome it sounds as well, we are moving towards that. Let's say there is USDT right? For American dollars, there could also be EURT or whatever it is called for euro, and there could be one for sterling and basically for every single fiat currency out there ever.

This means without going into any new altcoins people could literally trade between stablecoins representing fiat currencies but it would be based on crypto and blockchain technology which is a lot safer than the real fiat currency. I feel like it could be forexed that way as well and used leverage and so forth to make even more profit.
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Precious metals are not that easy to handle, that is why none of them ever succeeded. Do you know why that stablecoins are pegged to dollars? We all have a bank account that takes dollars all around the world, doesn't matter where you live you can accept dollars, this is why if you peg your currency towards fiat you could just get dollars to your bank account when you want to cash out to fiat.

However if you want to do gold, that is not easy, that is not going to happen that quickly, in the end we are talking about a situation where gold would have to exchange hands and doing that internationally is very very difficult. Hence pegged to fiat is the only thing that matters, there is no way that it could change.
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Too many choice are also not always good because they will confuse us. But the OP can still continue this idea if there is support from many investor and start working with several parties. But what the OP has to consider is that not all new project will be welcomed by the public and you have to think 100 times before doing them. Its a good idea to think of other ideas that have nothing to do with stable coin.

I dont use stable coin as investment assets and only use them as trading pair.
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I've seen a lot of projects like that over the past few years, as I remember there is Bitcoin Diamond, ETH Diamond, Bitcoin Gold, ETH gold, etc .. But it all doesn't make any sense, it's just that scam projects and they eventually crash and cause a lot of people to lose money
These are all just names bug not really pegged to metal. Even they put all the chemical metallic elements they cant be accredited even the legit projects claiming that they are legit. However, Im not saying OP has to create a project that must be pegged with this.

In my opinion its better to get pegged to projects that has long term perspective and trusted by the market in this way OP's Project would be trusted at all.
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If you want to create an altcoin which is pegged to fiat, we already have that and we don't need to have so many of the same thing. In fact, if we are to think of it a little deeper, we don't have to create an altcoin if the goal is just to copy fiat in digital form. We might as well just use fiat. After all, we already have all kinds of electronic payments using fiat.

As far as altcoin pegged on precious metals are concerned, the price of precious metals are also fluctuating. What I know we have are altcoins supported by real gold. I don't know of any altcoin which is pegged on silver or diamond or titanium.
Those ideas are not new and already many projects were failed with this prototype then why someone want to create a project backed by fiat or metals, anyway why they have to? It is also not going to work perfectly due to scalability and trust issue.

But it is also not new in the world of cryptocurrency that a project is launched with almost every part of it copy-pasted from another existing project. But the worse part is that these copycats are proud enough to market them, raise money through ICO or IEO, and promote them as if they have anything new to contribute to the development of cryptocurrency. And the worst part of all is that there are still people who fall for these tricks. 

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And also it is not going to bring profits or returns to the investor because the value of the fiat is going to be stable.

To be fair to stablecoin projects, they are not offering themselves as investment opportunities or speculative assets. They are designed for payments.
Number of people who really invest on these projects are less, the project itself giving fake numbers to make the investors to have believe on such projects that is why complete random newbie gets attracted to such projects and losing their money.

Until now the stable coins are mostly used for trading activities and tether is continuously printing money to give enough liquidity for the traders but if there is not enough reach fiat backed then it won't last long.

I would like to repeat, there is no investor who makes investments in a stablecoin. That is a stupid thing to do. That is even more stupid than investing in a shitcoin.

The projects themselves are not faking numbers so that they would attract investors. They are all aware that theirs are not coins for investment.

Stablecoins could be used for trading. They could also be useful for moving large sums of money, among other uses. But again we already have so many of them. There is no need to add more stablecoins.
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I've seen a lot of projects like that over the past few years, as I remember there is Bitcoin Diamond, ETH Diamond, Bitcoin Gold, ETH gold, etc .. But it all doesn't make any sense, it's just that scam projects and they eventually crash and cause a lot of people to lose money
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We already have dozens if not hundred coins pegged to either fiat or precious metal or some other commodity, and a lot of them have already died. Why create another one if the biggest coins take 99% of this market. Why would users use some new pegged coins instead of Tether or Dai? Stablecoins are as risky as other altcoins, because they always have the company responsible for maintaining their value, and this company can easily fail or turn into a scam.
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On one hand you want to create a coin that is pegged to fiat ( more like stablecoin) and on the other hand, it can also be pegged to precious metals. Now for the first, we have many stablecoins of which USDT is the most widely used, thus what makes you think yours can survive the competition? Also, as for precious metals, how many of gold backed projects are even working till date? They have either exited scam or stopped development because the team have understood there is no way for it to work, maybe not for now. So I would suggest, you try another idea because the one stated by you, is already being explored and worked on.
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Thanks again for the comments. I know very well that these are not new ideas that I come up with here. But I hope to develop features such as atomic swap and other things that can make my coin competitive. Well I'll think a little more before I decide.

You should look for the problems that are present in the already established projects and then try to solve those problems with your new coin, there are already lots of altcoins that are pegged to USD or maybe gold, so the market is already saturated for this niche. Like I said in the start of my post, search for a problem in the current market and find a way to solve it by implementing a solution through that coin built on either an established blockchain like the ethereum tokens or create your own from scratch(which would require more time and new methods). If you follow these steps then you can have a new coin with new features that are never seen before in the market.
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If you want to create an altcoin which is pegged to fiat, we already have that and we don't need to have so many of the same thing. In fact, if we are to think of it a little deeper, we don't have to create an altcoin if the goal is just to copy fiat in digital form. We might as well just use fiat. After all, we already have all kinds of electronic payments using fiat.

As far as altcoin pegged on precious metals are concerned, the price of precious metals are also fluctuating. What I know we have are altcoins supported by real gold. I don't know of any altcoin which is pegged on silver or diamond or titanium.
Those ideas are not new and already many projects were failed with this prototype then why someone want to create a project backed by fiat or metals, anyway why they have to? It is also not going to work perfectly due to scalability and trust issue.

But it is also not new in the world of cryptocurrency that a project is launched with almost every part of it copy-pasted from another existing project. But the worse part is that these copycats are proud enough to market them, raise money through ICO or IEO, and promote them as if they have anything new to contribute to the development of cryptocurrency. And the worst part of all is that there are still people who fall for these tricks. 

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And also it is not going to bring profits or returns to the investor because the value of the fiat is going to be stable.

To be fair to stablecoin projects, they are not offering themselves as investment opportunities or speculative assets. They are designed for payments.
Number of people who really invest on these projects are less, the project itself giving fake numbers to make the investors to have believe on such projects that is why complete random newbie gets attracted to such projects and losing their money.

Until now the stable coins are mostly used for trading activities and tether is continuously printing money to give enough liquidity for the traders but if there is not enough reach fiat backed then it won't last long.
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If you want to create an altcoin which is pegged to fiat, we already have that and we don't need to have so many of the same thing. In fact, if we are to think of it a little deeper, we don't have to create an altcoin if the goal is just to copy fiat in digital form. We might as well just use fiat. After all, we already have all kinds of electronic payments using fiat.

As far as altcoin pegged on precious metals are concerned, the price of precious metals are also fluctuating. What I know we have are altcoins supported by real gold. I don't know of any altcoin which is pegged on silver or diamond or titanium.
Those ideas are not new and already many projects were failed with this prototype then why someone want to create a project backed by fiat or metals, anyway why they have to? It is also not going to work perfectly due to scalability and trust issue.

But it is also not new in the world of cryptocurrency that a project is launched with almost every part of it copy-pasted from another existing project. But the worse part is that these copycats are proud enough to market them, raise money through ICO or IEO, and promote them as if they have anything new to contribute to the development of cryptocurrency. And the worst part of all is that there are still people who fall for these tricks. 

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And also it is not going to bring profits or returns to the investor because the value of the fiat is going to be stable.

To be fair to stablecoin projects, they are not offering themselves as investment opportunities or speculative assets. They are designed for payments.
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Thanks again for the comments. I know very well that these are not new ideas that I come up with here. But I hope to develop features such as atomic swap and other things that can make my coin competitive. Well I'll think a little more before I decide.
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I think something like pegging it to gold or silver can really work great if you are trying to create a new coin. There are too many stable coins that are already pegged to fiat and going with that may not be in your best interest since there is too much competition (unless you go with other currencies than usd that may work). There isn't much competition in gold or silver pegging although that would require that you have enough metal in storage to make it successful.
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If you want to create an altcoin which is pegged to fiat, we already have that and we don't need to have so many of the same thing. In fact, if we are to think of it a little deeper, we don't have to create an altcoin if the goal is just to copy fiat in digital form. We might as well just use fiat. After all, we already have all kinds of electronic payments using fiat.

As far as altcoin pegged on precious metals are concerned, the price of precious metals are also fluctuating. What I know we have are altcoins supported by real gold. I don't know of any altcoin which is pegged on silver or diamond or titanium.
Those ideas are not new and already many projects were failed with this prototype then why someone want to create a project backed by fiat or metals, anyway why they have to? It is also not going to work perfectly due to scalability and trust issue.

And also it is not going to bring profits or returns to the investor because the value of the fiat is going to be stable.
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I plan to start a new altcoin to be tied to something that has a reasonably lasting value like precious metals or fiat money.

I would appreciate getting other people's opinion on what must be assumed to be the greatest interest and need. A means of payment pegged to fiat money or savings item pegged precious metals?
There is nothing new about what you have just said, there are already lots of altcoins that are pegged to real currencies and the ones that are pegged to precious metals, so many of them more than you can count.

Those that are pegged with real currencies are the stable coins like the USDT, PAX, DAI, TUSD, and so many of them that I can’t even count. Then as for precious metals, these are the ones I don’t really know much about it, some people have said that they are fake and not really pegged to any precious metals, but there are already so many of them in the market: there is PAX Gold, which I know for sure is not fake because it is approved by the NYDFS.

There are a lot of so called gold backed currency but the problem is almost all of them don't actually holds the required amount of gold for escrow.

Anything which are not falling into the category of "cryptographically signable and verifiable" for these kind of project's reserve will lead to scam its investors. This is the reason why I would rather believe the projects which are being minted out of thin air than projects with gold  reserve.
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Thank you for your answers even though many of you unfortunately misunderstood my question. This is probably because I did not ask the question clearly enough. Sorry.

I want to create a coin that is tied to something that has a real value. It could be Euro deposited in bank accounts or gold stored in a safe deposit box. But I am simply in doubt as to what is most of the interest and need.

I think there is a need for both means of payments and means for long-term savings based on blockchain technology, but I wanted others' assessment of what is most need.

So what are you plan to have equal value to the coins you want to make are you going to make a coins that backed with real currency or precious metals ? Or you just want to create a stable coins like usdt?


For two option many people mostly use crypto currency as mode of payment ,they are just looking at it as investment but not for long term .because there is no security for investing your money in  crypto currency since the price is always volatile and no fixed value that you can securely stored it in your wallet for long terms. Many is just looking for gain once they have it they will convert  it to much secure currency that they can own securely.

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If you want to create an altcoin which is pegged to fiat, we already have that and we don't need to have so many of the same thing. In fact, if we are to think of it a little deeper, we don't have to create an altcoin if the goal is just to copy fiat in digital form. We might as well just use fiat. After all, we already have all kinds of electronic payments using fiat.

As far as altcoin pegged on precious metals are concerned, the price of precious metals are also fluctuating. What I know we have are altcoins supported by real gold. I don't know of any altcoin which is pegged on silver or diamond or titanium.
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If any company would be actually be pegging a coin, a one pegged with precious metals like gold would be a much better option than any pegged on fiat.
There are a lot of so called gold backed currency but the problem is almost all of them don't actually holds the required amount of gold for escrow. And it would not be believable unless an established company jumps into gold backed coins as issuing one requires a large capital. 
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Most altcoins are speculative objects with very volatile value. This makes them unsuitable both as means of payment and as long-term investment objects.

I plan to start a new altcoin to be tied to something that has a reasonably lasting value like precious metals or fiat money.

I would appreciate getting other people's opinion on what must be assumed to be the greatest interest and need. A means of payment pegged to fiat money or savings item pegged precious metals?

None. Well I mean fro you as the developer both are fine. For people buying this altcoin both options are bad.  It is way less risky fro these people just buy precious metal or fiat and hold it. No need to buy a token that is backed by them. They just expose them self to additional risk that that backup vanish.
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New altcoin that pegged on fiat money is actually a stable coin, and i think new stable coin will be hard to competing with existing stable coins.
To create new altcoin, i think it will be better if it is not pegged to fiat money or precious metals so the value of the coin can increase in the future.

I don't think that is exactly true, the market is big enough for more competition, just like we have multiple altcoins and they are competing just fine, so is stablecoin,  besides I don't think it is a bad idea to have a project pegged to fiat for a bit of stability, this type of project will attract people who wants experience a steady growth perhaps.
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Well, there are already many popular tokens pegged to fiat money, but there are almost no tokens pegged to precious metals, but you will need to have a real amount of gold in your account to secure your token, for everything to be correct.
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New altcoin that pegged on fiat money is actually a stable coin, and i think new stable coin will be hard to competing with existing stable coins.
To create new altcoin, i think it will be better if it is not pegged to fiat money or precious metals so the value of the coin can increase in the future.
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Gold token is for your interest. They have physical gold bars are stored in vault and back for their digital gold tokens.

ANN thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-gold-first-100-liquid-stablecoin-backed-by-gold-5161544
Check https://www.bullionstar.com/myaccount/audit with the account number as 17081.
They also have a marketplace where you can swap your GOLD tokens to BTC or ETH and vice versa.
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Plenty of stable coins and those altcoins that are pegged to precious metals such as gold. Do you have a certain reason why you want to make this one?
I think it's applicable if you are a big corporation and you want to incentivize your products and want to make your own payment system. But what could be your reasonto make one as such?
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Thank you for your answers even though many of you unfortunately misunderstood my question. This is probably because I did not ask the question clearly enough. Sorry.

I want to create a coin that is tied to something that has a real value. It could be Euro deposited in bank accounts or gold stored in a safe deposit box. But I am simply in doubt as to what is most of the interest and need.

I think there is a need for both means of payments and means for long-term savings based on blockchain technology, but I wanted others' assessment of what is most need.
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Most altcoins are speculative objects with very volatile value. This makes them unsuitable both as means of payment and as long-term investment objects.

I plan to start a new altcoin to be tied to something that has a reasonably lasting value like precious metals or fiat money.

I would appreciate getting other people's opinion on what must be assumed to be the greatest interest and need. A means of payment pegged to fiat money or savings item pegged precious metals?
Stable coins -  possibly good for making payments because it has the same value as fiat but what is the difference of using fiat over the stable coins

metal backed cryptos - there are lot of gold backed projects out there but most of them were scams, in future there will be silver, platinum,iron or whatever will be launched but why should we invest on those projects? Better can buy those precious metals itself.
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For me, a new altcoin that will is unique and a problem solver.
Even what kind of altcoin you have, as long as it will become useful for other people or become a problem solver, it will become no problem.
Especially these days, people are just into cryptocurrency because of an easy money thoughts or just for investment. But they don't know what cryptocurrencies can really do and how it will help our lives.
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Most altcoins are speculative objects with very volatile value. This makes them unsuitable both as means of payment and as long-term investment objects.

I plan to start a new altcoin to be tied to something that has a reasonably lasting value like precious metals or fiat money.

I would appreciate getting other people's opinion on what must be assumed to be the greatest interest and need. A means of payment pegged to fiat money or savings item pegged precious metals?
As you can describe, these are stablecoins, and we already have a lot of stablecoins in this market. For example: USDT, USDC, BUSD .. They are the biggest stablecoins in this market and have a lot of liquidity, so it is difficult for you to compete with them. Also, I also see many projects associated with gold, diamonds, oil ... but in the end they are just scam projects.
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Regardless @20kevin20 mention above about stablecoins, this is the list of stablecoins https://www.coingecko.com/en/stablecoins

If you really want to hold stablecoins, I recommend DAI since it's decentralized and can't be frozen. Read [UPDATED] PSA: Most Stablecoins Can Be Frozen, Even in Your Own Wallets

In my opinion precious metals is better for long term investment rather than stablecoins. Most of stablecoins ATH is only $1,30... while precious metals can perform better and has been for a long time.

He is not planning to hold any stable coin, he wants forum members opinion on which of the aforementioned should be tied to an altcoin project he is planning to create, I guess you miss read the post,
@op In my opinion, I think a project pegged to fiat will be much better and less volatile, I am not sure about precious metals, but fiat seem a good idea, maybe it will give the alts a chance to grow normal without the constant fluctuations.
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IMO, If the altcoin is pegged to fiat money or let's say precious metals like Gold it is already classified as Stablecoin because it was back by stable assets. you must reassess your point if you want to create a Stablecoin or a full-fledge decentralized cryptocurrency because if you do, you must build its use-case first then its product or services so that your token will have a demand from your product or services offered.
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I've seen a lot of coins pegged to fiat money. USDT is pegged with USD dollars as I can understand so far. And so many coins are out there that are pegged with gold. So that you posted is happening already.
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For me it feels like the market is already pretty saturated with stable coins now.
A few years ago there was only UDST but now we have probably more than 10 stable coins, that are bound to the Dollar.
And there are already stable coins that are linke to the current gold value too.
So i think you are a little late with your idea of a new stable coin  Undecided
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I would appreciate getting other people's opinion on what must be assumed to be the greatest interest and need. A means of payment pegged to fiat money or savings item pegged precious metals?
There aren't any coins that have a fixed price like fiat money, or as you say by measuring the price of precious metals.

However, if you want to use an exchange with coins that are still stable with dollars, to make transactions you can use coins (USD COIN) and (USDT), both coins still follow the dollar price for now.

I think the two coins are still based on the dollar and the movement of precious metals (gold).

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However, it can be temporary, can change at any time.
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I plan to start a new altcoin to be tied to something that has a reasonably lasting value like precious metals or fiat money.
You cant find a token/coin that has lasting values and comparable to metals or fiat money. The closest one is stablecoin since its value are not designed to be volatile. However these are still risky asset and centralized. If you heard the news about certain exchange freezing the usdt asset is a pure example of being manipulated or controlled by a hierarchy which are consists of private groups and companies.

If you want to pegged something, the best suggestion is either bitcoin ot ethereum. But problem with bitcon is the crosschain application so you fall down to eth which is clearly designed for tokens.
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Regardless @20kevin20 mention above about stablecoins, this is the list of stablecoins https://www.coingecko.com/en/stablecoins

If you really want to hold stablecoins, I recommend DAI since it's decentralized and can't be frozen. Read [UPDATED] PSA: Most Stablecoins Can Be Frozen, Even in Your Own Wallets

In my opinion precious metals is better for long term investment rather than stablecoins. Most of stablecoins ATH is only $1,30... while precious metals can perform better and has been for a long time.
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None. We already have enough stablecoins in my opinion for both. Why bother buying fiat or precious metals through a new pegged altcoin when you can buy them directly without having to trust a 3rd party that is under control of your wallet or when you can just purchase a pegged alt that has a history and trust behind it?

But to answer your question, you have to ask yourself which will be more looked after in the long term: fiat or commodities?
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Most altcoins are speculative objects with very volatile value. This makes them unsuitable both as means of payment and as long-term investment objects.

I plan to start a new altcoin to be tied to something that has a reasonably lasting value like precious metals or fiat money.

I would appreciate getting other people's opinion on what must be assumed to be the greatest interest and need. A means of payment pegged to fiat money or savings item pegged precious metals?
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