Actually, I do not understand why those projects want to issue a new coin.
If you just pay for it, why not use the existing coins on the market now, such as Litecoin, DASH, etc..
These coins have many supporters, you can save a lot of promotion.
Hello and thanks for your good and valid question.
There are three reasons we want to issue a FavorCoin instead of using an existing coin.
1) Value/Cost of a coinWe focus on very small jobs and favors, which will cost you the equivalent of maybe $5 to $20.
If you look at Ether, etc. the value is meanwhile so high, that a favor of that size would cost 0.0058 Eth.
Not very practical.
Therefore we need a coin which can appreciate in value vs. ICO but remain practical for the targeted market.
You will get 125,000 FavorCoins for 0,05 Eth during the Pre-ICO week 1 (incl. 25% bonus) and 100,000 C4F for 0,05 Eth during ICO.
If the value of FavorCoins in the long run would be $0.01 (speculative !) you can still order a normal small favor for 500 FavorCoins while the value of your 125,000 Favorcoins vs. ICO has gone up 2900% from $42,50
(based on 850USD/Eth) to $1250.
2) Funding of Marketing & Development We want to raise the funding to develop and market the Coins4Favors system. That is why we need the revenue from the ICO.
A system like this only works if you have enough users across the world, so if someone looks for a favor somewhere there are enough Coins4Favors users that can provide that favor or mini-job.
Key to achieve this is marketing, marketing and marketing of the App and the Coins4Favors system.
If you check our
webpage and the
whitepaper, we outline the use of the ICO proceeds and explain why we use most of the money raised for marketing (40%). It will be very difficult to reach global coverage without sufficient marketing over a longer period of time.
3)Branding and Value IncreaseBranding of the Coins4Favors system and control of it's valuation with a dedicated token is the third reason.
With the Coins4Favors token we have a token that has a dedicated use platform. This allows us to drive the value of the token up by simply scaling up the user base, driving up our market coverage.
If we use another existing coin, the value of the coin will fluctuate a lot as seen in recent weeks. Maybe some coins even fail in the long run.
This can influence the value of FavorCoins and make the placement and valuation of favors difficult in the system. Therefore we chose a dedicated token for our platform.
I hope this makes sense, please let me know if you want to discuss further.
Your Coins4Favors Team