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RE: (5 SBD giveaway) Question : how would you kill STEEM ?

in #teamaustralia6 years ago (edited)

Why would he waste his money buying steem to dump it and lose money, when he could just tokenise FB?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/11/17344318/facebook-cryptocurrency-token-blockchain-report-david-marcus

Plus FB and steemit are not the same thing anyway.

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A better question would have been -

how easy/likely is it for any given corporate to kill crypto based competitors... by price dumping and other means.

The market is not that deep. It would take them a while to build up a substantial position and then to dump it in one go, there would need to be a hell of a lot of buyers, which there isn't. This is not S&P500 futures or forex markets. The liquidity is not there.

The market being not deep would make it easier to tank the price , no?
one can use less capital to force the dump.

You still need buyers. If there aren't any you can't sell.

in the same vein , crypto market caps are also bogus

Bitcoin Gold is a good example of fake market cap. As soon as it was forked, it was traded for U$ 479 a piece. Since there automatically existed 16+ million BTG – because it was a fork of the main Bitcoin blockchain – multiply U$ 479 by 16+ million and you get more than U$ 8 billion market cap, even though not a single U$ was traded for BTG, ever. If so much as a tiny percentage of BTG owners attempted to convert their coins to U$, they would be in for a bad surprise.

https://crypto.bi/tape/blog/market-caps/

Re-read your response...makes sense in today's context.

Agreed. Steemit and FB are NOT the same thing. When I first started I totally thought it was... or could be... But it can't be. It's a blogging website for creators. Eventually, all the folks who are more FB in their sharing will leave, methinks. And that's okay. 😍

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