Maybe to phrase what he is asking differently: after various markets are created over Tau (Agoras that will require the Agora coin to use them)-- what stops one to create competing markets, also over tau (parallel to Agoras) with BTC, ETC, or any other crypto tools. Won't these have an advantage over the Agoras market? (an advantage in the sense that they'll utilize other coins without limits).
OR, even if the above is correct, is your intention with the Agoras to enable features that can utilize any coin but that like in ETHEREUM, will require Agoras an an underlying gas/fee/whatever for every transaction while also enabling them as a "classic coin" within that Inner world?
Thanks for the questions,
1. Whatever can be implemented with "old" coins like BTC, will probably be supported on Agoras, of course with limited features.
2. There will be no "gas" or fees for using tau or agoras. Otherwise, someone will create a clone with no fees, as you pointed out. We do try to come up with a design that is hard to compete with, of course, by all means we find.
3. No one essentialy prevents someone from creating Agoras competitor over tau, but it'll be hard to compete with tau's developers, especially in introducing the features we've been thinking on for over a year. No one even came up with a "small and simple" feature of agoras like Zennet. But again I think this points to a kind of risk that exists in any project, and usually doesn't come realistic, yet we do keep that in mind and try to make it more valuable to join us rather compete with us.
Please let me know if this answers.