Quote from: tempus on May 17, 2018, 11:44:23 PM

This is a very interesting project and it seems to be one of a few with a lot of expertise behind.

But, there is also something quiet important that I don't like or maybe I don't fully get it yet.

First how I understand the token (CCC): The only purpose out of Investor-perspective for now and some time is to act as something like a share, a security token, to receive dividends. Other functions may be added in future but that might be some time away and is not totally planned yet?

The problem I believe to see is this:

On page 31 of the Whitepaper: 5.3.3 Revenue Sharing Model

I know that those numbers are more like examples, but for the moment, let's say it will turn out that way.

There is said for 2022:
Expected Revenue per year: USD 3,187,951 ---> 10.28% shared revenue, which would be in dividends per token and year: USD 0.0638

Let's say I buy into the ICO now, for $30k:
$30k / USD 0.62 (price) = 48387 CCC Tokens

Let's say I hold those tokens until 2022 and the numbers above would turn out to be near to future reality:
I would get about $0.0638 per year and token: 48387 * $0.0638 = $3087 dividends per year in 2022. Unlikely to get more in the years before.

If it would be a safe bet it would be much better than what any bank gives in interest rates. But it's still an Investment with some risk and the year 2022 is some time away.

There is something else:

Let's say an ICO-Investor wants to speculate on a rising price: It wouldn't make that much sense. If the price would go up about 100%, a future Buyer would have to pay $60k to get the same $3087 as dividends in year 2022 - if the revenue shouldn't be higher. Unlikely that rational participants would buy that later at a higher price. And let's say the revenue would be 3 times of that: Dividends would be about $9k. That's better for sure but only if it happens and it would still be a long time to go with $30 locked until 2022 or $60k locked if the token price would rise about 100% until 2022.

With other words: It seems to me as if the future token price on exchanges will have something like a "natural cap" because a rising price would decrease the dividend-incentive. The other way may also be true of course.. if it goes down hard, it would become much more interesting.

In my opinion it really would/will need additional functionality to add incentive, and it's said that there are plans but very vague and not further specified and probably also "some time" in the future. If my thoughts are not wrong (?) it's not that interesting in my opinion, even if everything else looks very interesting and highly professional.

By the way, I don't understand this (WP - page 30):

B. Market Maker Fund a unique beneficial feature

Additionally, to further support the CCC and its price in the free market, especially
in the times after the ICO and before the launch of the platform a major part of the collected funds will be locked in a Market Maker Fund. What this means is that IF the price of the CCC on the free market at any time after the closing of the ICO but before the first phase of the solution is launched should fall to a level below a certain percentage of the introduction/starting price, then everyone who have bought CCCs during the ICO will be able to sell back their coins to Blockshipping, if they regret buying the coin. In that case Blockshipping will pay back from the Market Maker Fund.
In fact, by doing so we are offering all our supporters an economic safety net, which is a unique feature on the crypto market.

Let's say the token gets listed on one or more exchanges but goes down for about 40% and an ICO-buyer regrets buying the token: The market maker fund would buy it back to which price? To the then current market price or to the ICO-price or something between?

The revenue share model is based on the revenue generated by the platform (in USD). This amount of USD is purely dependent on the performance of the platform not the rate of CCC. These USD will be exchanged to ETH which again will be used to buy CCCs in market (using the "reverse Dutch auction"). If the market price should be low more CCC token will be bought and distributed. I.e. a high market price = more money to the sellers and fewer tokens to distribute whereas a lower market price = less money to the sellers and more CCCs to the hodl'ers.

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