Quote from: accripteau on October 06, 2016, 07:19:39 PM

Quote from: tempus on October 06, 2016, 06:06:04 PM

And I believe it's even possible that the marketcap of Factoids could be above the value of the company.

Without a doubt. Because developers can use Factom's technology without any assistance from Factom Inc, there is incredible value there. Considering the lack of inflation and burning of tokens upon use, it has THE best economic model of all cryptos (at least until M3).

Yep, I pretty sure FCTs market cap will grow faster over time than Factom Incs valuation (though I think both will do extremely well).

For instance: Imagine if G-mail were distinct from Google. Then imagine if G-mail had invented email as an open-source project, and then established G-Mail as their business entity. In this analogy, investing in G-mail is roughly equivalent to investing in Factom Inc, and investing in FCT is roughly equivalent to investing in email.

It makes sense that initially, more money will be funneled to Factom Inc than to FCT (Factom Inc has the high-profiles clients and partnership, while use of the protocol is only starting to take off). However as products and services using the Factom protocol become more targeted and efficient, the fees for developing those products/services should be outpaced, at an increasing rate, by the fees collected by the Federated Servers maintaining the protocol. This in turn means that FCTs growth should outpace Factom Incs growthor put another way, that FCTs market cap should outpace Factom Incs valuation.

Another consideration: FCT has a monopoly on the FCT market (obviously), but Factom Inc will inevitably have competitors as others learn how to develop their own products/services using the Factom protocol.

But again, this isnt to disparage Factom Inc in the slightestboth FCT and Factom Inc. are the investments of the decade, in their respective markets, IMO.