Quote from: smooth on July 25, 2016, 01:25:37 AM

Quote from: iamnotback on July 25, 2016, 01:20:21 AM

Quote from: smooth on July 25, 2016, 01:17:08 AM

Quote from: iamnotback on July 25, 2016, 01:14:23 AM

Quote from: AlexGR on July 25, 2016, 01:08:50 AM

Quote from: iamnotback on July 24, 2016, 10:26:05 PM

Other than deluded n00bs, who is long-term investing in Steem?

Could someone give me some explanation as to why anyone would convert BTC to STEEM POWER? (not STEEM which is debased 92.5% to 100% yearly)

Blockchain investment has, let's say, 2 main types

1) individuals like those of us who frequent btctalk
2) funds who are dealing with millions or billions and are throwing money like there is no tomorrow - types of funds that have ETH at 1+bn marketcap despite all its clusterfucks

The money invested by group (2) is in the hundreds of millions, if it hasn't exceeded a billion already.

Buying a stake at something like Steem could be an investment, for them. They'd essentially be betting on its success and expansion.

Now, in a world where stuff like messaging apps and snapchats and online games can fetch billions or tens of billions, this is not very unlikely to happen.

For group (1) the dynamics are entirely different and what they do with their 1-5-10-100 btc investment is a whole different issue.

You can't buy the company, there isn't one seller.

There is already at least one significant fund (crypto oriented) that invested in SP as a long term play. That others may as well is not implausible. I agree with AlexGR. That has nothing to do with buying the company, and may even turn out to be more valuable than buying the company anyway since it isn't clear what business value the company has other than its SP holdings. People can and will access the platform while bypassing the web site.

Why they would buy into a blockchain debasing at 15-21% yearly for SP holders and which has a license saying it can't be forked (then who the fuck can improve it? Only Dan and Ned?)?

I guess they haven't learned yet that open systems beat closed ones. They probably didn't do the math on the debasement correctly also.

You obviously disagree with their investment thesis. That's why markets exist.

Did they buy at a much lower price such as a month ago? If yes, then it seems more rational.

What professional investors want to buy at these higher prices and lockup for 1 year weighted average when the insider whales (who mined nearly at no cost) have many millions of SP they can dump on the market in 104 weekly installments.

The only reason to be bullish that I can see is if you think the demand for STEEM will increase. And the only reason I can find for that which makes any sense to me, is if the transactions involving STEEM will increase to $billions per year. That is a very big if.

I don't believe there is any hope for system where you have to buy STEEM in order to be able to use it. Every social network which has tried to charge has failed. Users don't want that.

Paypal charges the merchants not the payer.