Quote from: spitefulham on August 17, 2017, 11:54:18 PM

Quote from: very_452001 on August 17, 2017, 11:30:59 PM

Hi,

Looking at the top 2 on coinmarket is bitcoin and ethereum.

Both are mineable and have a low max supply in millions not billions or trillions.

What gives a coin more value is the effort involved into getting them (mining). Is this true or false?

Im looking at NEO altcoin on coinmarketcap and it has a * next to it that indicates it's not mineable and has a circulating supply of 50million and max supply of 100million. If it is not mineable then who has the remainder 50million neo coins? Also NEO value has shot up recently and thinking how its increased in value so quick especially when its not mineable. Not understanding Huh

Ethereum has around %15 inflation because of unlimited token cap. Being mineable indirectly effects the price, but to better or worse? That's quite hard to know. My opinion is it doesn't matter, market decides the price of tokens, and unless mining creates a huge inflation who really cares about what is mineable and what isn't in the market?

Ethereum is about to become POS, by the way. At first it will be POS+POW, but in the future ethereum mining might completely die.

Really Ethereum has a unlimited supply? Never knew that. Does not make sense how it has a current low circulating supply and a high value price if it is unlimited supply?

Ok when you think Ethereum will become POS? Will POS+POW or just POS will make Ethereum less valuable?

Bitcoin is POW and should I use bitcoin as a benchmark to judge value to other Alts? Bitcoin is POW, has a low total supply cap, decentralised and has real world usages hence its at number 1 market cap now. Which other coins have similar or better characteristics like bitcoin but has a unique real world usage instead of copying bitcoin?