Quote from: maphmatix on February 03, 2014, 12:18:50 AM

Quote from: gambitx on February 02, 2014, 09:28:07 PM

Just a warning to buyers: XCP burners (basically early adopters) have formed a cartel (chk xcp thread) and jacked up the price artificially by 10x-15x times. Please don't accept these prices as the coin is still a prototype and isn't worth that much yet. They are a greedy cartel

Sadly, yes, this is what appears to be happening, I like the idea behind Counterparty and was initially interested, until i did a quick workout of the maths and you're right, most burners got between 1000-1500 XCP per 1 BTC and are immediately looking to turn that round to selling you 100XCP per 1 BTC. I can understand a markup being added but not a 10-15x markup of their brand new XCP, looking to offload immediately making a massive profit. Please convince me otherwise.

It's impossible to form a cartel when 500+ people invested in XCP.

If .01 BTC/XCP is above market price, someone out of the 500+ people will undercut that price.

.01 BTC/XCP puts Counterparty market cap at 26,487 BTC

This is half the market cap of Mastercoin.
This puts Counterparty as the #10 crypto on http://coinmarketcap.com/
Right above ProtoShares and right below Quark.

This seems like a fair valuation given that Counterparty is the first crypto to implement a distributed exchange.