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With many ICO's not selling so much of their tokens or not reaching the hard cap, many of these token's price always plummeted after entering the exchange. With the excess tokens that are not sold during the ICO are being burned, it is really possible that a fewer circulating supply of tokens will make it rarer thus it is more valuable? More valuable meaning pricier thus each holder of token will get more from what they bought? Or it is actually the opposite? What is your opinion about?

Please don't hate me for my thinking. If you know that I'm wrong, please correct me.

You are both right and wrong at the same time. Yes, if the tokens become rare it might create some spark and will be able to bring the market a little further up. But if these are being burned to manipulate it, then in the long run, it might be a trouble.

Yes, most probably you could gain a better price from it if the project team would decide to burn out the token that is not sold. From my knowledge locking out of time  from the team side is also a good reason for the token to have more value.

Low circulating supply could make the price go up temporarily because the demand may be greater. But in the long run what matters most is the total supply. How are the additional tokens released? Are they mined, or staked? At what rate. All that has to be taken into account. The closer the circulating supply is to the total supply, the scarcity is larger and the tokens are more valuable.

It is true and I will agree with you on this, when the total supply of token is less, the price will go up after it hits the exchange, but when the supply is too much it makes the price to dip, and thus has become a real issue to all those who bought into the ICO.

Overall it really does not matter, I personaly like lower supply coins in the 10 mil range because the overall price is usually higher but if a coin rises 1000 or even 20000%  your still making 1000-20000%

This might be a good call for the short run, but in the long run, when the market is in a better condition, then it might prove us heavy and might cost us too. It will be better to not to manipulate the market in such a way.

Coins with low circulating supply tend to increase in price more rapidly in the short/medium term. But this is highly dependent on whether more coins will be released or mined. The timing of release is also very critical

This is more or less like an ambivalent feeling. It is good that the market is being manipulated like this to make them rare and to increase the demand, but there are high chances that it will cost us a lot in the long run.

It is usually good lowering the circulating supply of a token. That will make the token more valuable and it is sometimes good for the investors because the lower the supply, the higher the price. It is simple.

Most of the times I target low supply coins or tokens,  low supply gives a better chance at scarcity which brings about a hike in price.  Check coinmarketcap we have seen most low supply coin doing well with good USD value though there are also some few exceptions.

I often don't care too much about total supply amount of any token. I just care about how good project behind token is :). If a token has a good project behind so it'll go to the moon very soon although total supply amount low or high :). Don't waste your time to care about it cause it's nothing.

You right that can be problem
Speak about question OP good or bad it can't be appraise only just circulating supply of tokens or token burned try look too how much wallet holder of the token, because I belive if much wallet holder it means much ppl like token it and the price will be grow up soon.

Currently,the market situation is not good enough to have higher profits and most of the ICO are ended up being scammed. Lower circulating supply of tokens will not encourage the investors if they are not able to gain the trust again.

I think it is good as the token will tend to have a higher value compare to billion supply token.  For instance, BTC its only 21m supply compare to ETH.

Yes, if the tokens that are not sold are burned after ico, the lesser the circulating supply the more valuable the token will be but not necessarily increase the price. Because in price, there is another variable to consider, which is demand. Even if the supply is low but people are not seeing the value of the token thus not buying, the price will most likely not increase.

If the price is getting increased then I think it will be good for the investors because they will get the profit. Whenever you invest in crypto coins you can make a profit because the price is getting increased. Circulation is so important in price.

The blockheads that paid 5plus bucks for it saying it was an extraordinary arrangement apparently have vanished. A couple of us here knew it would drop on account of the circling versus add up to supply.

Artificial scarcity is usually quite obvious, and just because a token is scarce doesn't mean it's in demand, lowering the circulating supply wont necessarily increase the value of the token as it doesn't increase user interest in combination. For most projects, lowering the circulation will have little to no effect, as though the value of each individual token may increase, the absolute market cap will remain the same, and so as soon as the tokens are re-added back to circulation the rate will drop concomitantly.

I think it's the fundamental rule.if the token circulation is small ,then the market will grow up with their demands. but if coins will circulate big numbers then the market demand less.that results would be bad.

In the period of the fall of all coins, I think it is not such a terrible phenomenon as a drop in circulation among all coins, even the most powerful and important. I think it's worth waiting for the winter, and then everything will be clear.

The price of the crypto coins is getting increased and decreased continuously. It happens because of demand and sale of the crypto coins. If the demand or sale is less of any coins, the price will be less. If the demand or sale is high then the price will be increased.

It doesn't depend on the supply of tokens, it depend on the price of each token. But with a huge amount of tokens supply, It is more suitable for transactions. Limited supply is more appropriate for asset storage.

Yes, whatever you are saying can be true in the sense of getting more profit from there tokens but I don't think that will be wise enough for those people who might want to do it because of the risk factors that go with any ICO right now.

It doesn't matter how you support it or the community supporters. If you going to ask me where i will invest my money even if the circulating supply is higher than your expectation? I would choose a working product/platform that will change the entire ecosystem.

According to my opinion it is very essential to understand properly the rate of coin/token supply some of the crypto currency has finite supply where others may have infinite supply.

making a coin rare will may result in the lost of the investor in that coin as there are less chances for a holder to dump the coin to the buyer and of buyer will not get the coin then he my lose intrest in that coin and he may move to other coins will low price

As per the market, condition suggests, ICO is facing so many problems even though the real ones are also getting ignored for the extensive promotion of scammed one. Lower circulating of tokens might happen because of not getting the investors who will wait for the project to be successful. The ones who are expecting larger gains are also taking huge risks.

I dont think so, maybe for some token/coin fewer circulating can make it more valuable, but it will only hold for a temporary. These kind of stuff that always create fraud among the newcomer of cryptocurrency. The projects goal also affect to the value of the token.

if the supply is short and the demand is high, then the possibility for an altcoin to increase its price is high. but as you said, the remaining supply that is not being sold during ico days will be burned, then it means that your altcoin that is talking about is not really popular or the demand is not high enough to sold all their token.

The less supply of tokens the better. Because if their is a demand in the market surely the price will exceed above the ICO price. But it also depends on the projects and the type of tokens. Normally tokens with huge supply and used for paymentss or e-commerce projects don't normally burned tokens. Because these tokens will be use within the platform. Only those projects like mining are the ones will benefit from low supply of tokens. Because mining projects usually paid their token holders in Ethereum or Bitcoin for staking or quarterly dividends. With a ratio of 1:1, 1 token equal to 1 usd. So investors will probably buy in the market for more tokens for long term hold.

I think it is a good thing because when there is a low circulating supply of a coin, holders of that coin are at a good advantage as they can get to control price of coin and that fact can give the coin more quality.

A low circulation coin is suppose be an advantages to a coin in issue. The reason being that such coin will be able to finish in time, then such coin will be able to manage in an exchange

Low or high circulating supply, it doesn't really matter, what matters is the project, the demand and it used case must tokens circulating supply is below 100m, and there price on exchange is not up-to $0.01, while we have coin that their circulating supply are over 1b and they are doing pretty well.

The project is worth count not the circulating supply.

well we all knows that  this place is all about using the correct opportunities,  as per the situation sometimes a negative thing also can be a medium of success so it is hard to say anything with surety without knowing the circumstances properly.

A lower available supply will theoretically increase the value of the individual tokens, but that also has to be balanced with the fact that an ICO that failed to raise anything close to its hard cap will mean a lower market cap and with that it may be unattractive to exchanges to list. Being listed on popular exchanges can be very important in the short term when the project is largely trading on its speculative value.

if you know how this market works then you should also know that how unpredictable this place actually is so you can judge a thing with some one else point of view you have to analyze it on your own perception so I will suggest not to get influence and take any sudden decision

Lower supply means that the chances of pump are high if the coin gets decent investors or buyers at the exchange, at the end it is the demand and supply that gives the value and also the volume is a key player towards the derivation of value of a coin, if a coin has bigger volume we can easily judge the direction and value that a coin can get.

Max supply of a coin/token for sure very important to consider, with a token with max supply of 20M and 20B, I will choose the 20M one. I think the lower the better, because the rarer the more expensive.

However, the more important thing is that you have to create demand for that coin/token, the is the long term and safe goal to keep the price high. Or at least deliver the promises on the development as the planned roadmap and the price will be naturally raise.

Lower circulation of coin, it is an advantage to the successfulnes of a coin. There won't be any cause for burning a coin, the issue of unsold will not arise. Lastly, it will be maxim for price stability

The circulating supply and max supply are important metrics for me...if the supply is to high for the project and the target group then there will be always an oversupply and this makes it much harder to get up in price.

Well in my opinion it is good as the number of tokens will be lower then there will be a lot of demand of tokens if the ICO succeed which lead to the raise in the price of token because of the shortage of the tokens.

low circulating supply of tokens is good but that's not enough to make it rare, some important things must also be considered such as total supply of tokens and other things that can make it have high demand in the future

What makes a price going up is less supply and more demand, if there is lower circulating supply of a token, there will be much possibility of price increase.
Most people randomly pick coins having large supply, Always choose a  coin for investment that has lower supply

Actually, I agree partially with your thought. There should always be balance in the market cap. There is no scope for forever going in the bulls rather there must be bears also. So, what we can say is going in a project which seems legit, whether the price is low or not.

There are two fundamental factors at play here which ultimately determine the price of an asset. The first factor is, as you noticed, scarcity, but just being scarce is nowhere near enough to be valuable. The other factor without which scarcity has no importance is utility. In this case, utility means usefulness for achieving certain ends. So if something is scarce but lacks utility it won't have any value because it doesn't provide utility. But utility without scarcity is also pretty much useless for having a price tag. We cannot live without air, so it has absolute utility and is of vital necessity to us. But it still has no price tag because it is not scarce and freely available to anyone at no cost.

my school economics made it clear that when a commodity is scarce, there's a tendency for the price to go up.
That of cryptocurrency is not far from this principle else; why do you think people are needed to buy into a token? is it not to buy up and create such scarcity. Some projects like the inmusik will even encourage you to hold on their coin for longer period.

Dude; you're right!
But at the loss of project owners who may not get enough fund to complete their projects

The circulating and total supply of a coin is a very powerful indicator as to a coins potential. Let's look at why getting in early on a low supply can be a gold mine. Take for example a coin with 1 billion supply and a valuation of 5 million. Now let's say coin surged for whatever reason and is now worth 10 million total market cap, each coin would be worth 10$.Now take that same scenario with a coin that has 1 million total supply. At 5 million valuation each coin is worth 5$. If 10 billion is thrown into it, each coin is now worth 10,000.That's the power of getting in early on a coin with supply.

Ideally having a small amount of supply is good, It can make the tokens more scarce, Having a small supply is not always good for every project, Some of them need a big supply to have enough tokens going in circulation.

Lower circulating supply due to many ICO does not reach the hard cap its consider useless dump or burned token. Low supply will depend the prices according to the demand, we will not consider that as good or bad for those holders. We will see the output when it comes a big changes.

I think it's a good thing to reduce the supply of tokens, because it will make tokens more valuable, and low supply will lead to price increases, which is very beneficial to investors.

can be right. This is many developers and investors favor, by scarcity. Definitely worth alcoin will increase, when many buyers and sellers less. Issues profit developers; when they released little coin market, which means they will get less money for development projects. The majority of projects will calculate and release a certain number of coins into the market, then they recovered to push up the value coin

Yeah somehow tokens with big supply is good in order for other traders to demand for more, but it made the price much cheaper. If the supply became lesser in circulation, it will make the price expensive and the potential holders will not dump immediately because there's a bigger chances that the coins will increase it's price value. When the demand increased while supply also decreased, more buyers will come and probably more will be selling their asset as well as panic buying will be.

As we knew, this is the market. And the market always follow the law of supply and demand. The more supply, the more depreciation. So, burning tokens is the best way to keep its price.

If indeed the circulation of supply a bit, I think it is less good. Because it means that only a handful of people doing the coin Exchange. And this means that the coin is not so interesting.

Yes it is good for prices. Because their is less fluctuations in prices and you will be earn in this situation. For low circulation supply you can check Quant Network project where only 14 million supply...

Lower circulating supply of token is not a guarantee for successful outcome of any issued token but the lower supply is positive for any token and it also ensure that token are priced well in the market!

As for me it brings good development to the cryptocurrency that you're holding, since lowering the supply will make more demands into higher value of your coin. We now gains an opportunity to acquire huge selling price in the market if the coins became profitable. Many people will be eager to buy and holders will increase in numbers.

Overall it really doesn't matter, low circulation inventories can make prices rise temporarily because demand may be greater. But in the long run the most important is total supply.

The crypto market low circulation supply is good for future demand because all the investors are concentrate the potential token so some projects are follow the right way and plan for exact supply in softcap and hardcap. But many investors are not aware in these kind of tokens so many peoples are misunderstanding the low circulation supply tokens.

with the existing amount of the less certainly has risks and benefits also are available. may indeed be quite difficult to sell it early because the numbers are a bit less minded lot who will practice for sale. and it is also true that many may decline in price when entering the market. But if it is for the long term I think this would be a good thing because it will make it a rare can reach high prices and quite expensive from a previous ICO price.

Low supply token is more valuable it's a myth actually if token have no real life use how can it make a valuable. But we can't tell it as bad. A coin can't be sustain by just a trading. Lot's of coin in market running by just trading. These all coin definetly will be lost from market.

in my opinion, making ico unable to penetrate the soft cap and hardcap because the features they offer or the services offered are the same as those that already exist and are made in a different package that no new ideas can offer on ico,
for the problem of entering the market because the down price or the usual rise all depends on the altcoin being dropped by an altcoin that offers its usual services will remain stable on the exchange

personally I prefer ico with a lot of tokens. I think no matter how much the results will be gained, if the supply of tokens is big, we will also get the great results. that's the logic. but we also have to be smart to choose ico that good so that the results are more satisfying. it all depends on the logic of each person.

Low supply of coins with high demand will really make the price go up. On the contrary, if the demand was still low even if the supply was low, the result will be a low price. A lot of ICO's are trying to lock some coins from bounty and team member to have a low circulating supply. This is a 50-50 bet in my opinion and this does not guarantee the success of the coin. This is only a short term solution for the coin value.

It seems you are making a few very loose assumptions which are unlikely to happen in real life. First of all, you assume that the price of a coin surges 2 times for some obscure reason. Basically, you just postulate that its price rose 2 times. But for what reason exactly? Why not suggest its growth on the order of 1000 times then? Further, if a coin has 1 billion supply and a market cap of 5 million, its price would be 5M/1B=0.005$. Then you assume that 1B dollars is thrown into a coin with a total supply of 1 million and a market cap of 5M, but this is yet another arbitrary assumption as the first one. I can just as arbitrarily claim that if 1000 billion dollars is poured into the second coin, its growth will be the same.

But these are all baseless assumptions like if wishes were horses beggars might ride. In a nutshell, it is not about a coin's potential, it is just you fiddling with the numbers.

If the token price is low and also the supply with a promising project that will be soon launched and surely to have the benefit.
it will be a big bang in the near future and i would love to keep some of the tokens.
But if the supply is low due to burned unsold tokens and the ICO was not successful like what happened to NIMFA it will be a problem i the long run.
it has no value now.

Any lower circulation coin supposed to be an advantage to to the in issue. Reason being that, the coin will be able to finished in time and more so, the market price will be able to determined.

I think that everything is exactly as you said. In fact, now there are a lot of projects that hardly reach the hard cap

You must adjust to the existing market conditions. The condition of the ICO faces so many problems even though the truth is also being neglected for the broad promotion because many projects in the ICO are Scam. Also lowered tokens may occur because they do not get investors who will wait for the project to succeed because the ICO is increasingly no longer trusted by investors. If you want to go into the ICO Project, those who expect greater profits also take big risks too later.

Burning their excess altcoin during ICO might increase the demand for their token/coin someday specially if they will be stronger than those altcoin in top 10 at coinmarketcap. The lower the stocks, the higher the demand specially if they are that popular right? Business is business and i might say that it will be similar to buying an item online. Besides, if you are a buyer and you know that they have thousands left in stock, the eagerness to grab that item is not that high and think of another choices that will give you more satisfaction.

If the project will succeed then yes, the value is more valuable after some time, the higher the demands the higher the value if we will follow the rules of supply and demand,  we can make Bitcoin as an example as we knew that there's only numbers of Bitcoin that will going to exist, after that if more adoptions will happen then we can assume that Bitcoin will be a fortune if we will hold it as an assets that will be store for maybe 5-10 years from now.

I always go with low supply tokens as I feel as though they have more explosive growth potential than the large float coins.  SO far this strategy has worked out for me.  Something about the large amounts of coins that turns me off.   Now trying to buy 10 Bitcoin of a low supply coin has it's issues.  I have taken weeks to get into a position.  Unloading is also a task. 

In the end it all comes down to market cap.  The amount of coins really isn't that important.  If the coin is undervalued or overvalued it will be seen in the market cap not the price nor amount of coins in circulation really matter.  The price * amount of coins combined is all that matters.

For me, this logic is both meaningless and flawed. It is valid and reasonable to assume that only some part of the coin supply gets actually circulated, so if we thoroughly follow your logic through, any coin will be undervalued at any time unless all supply is circulating. If you calculate the market cap as the number of all coins multiplied by the current price and then divide the product by the number of actually traded coins (which is lower than the total supply), you will get the price which would be higher than the current. That means, according to your reasoning, that the coin in question is undervalued as its price should be higher.

Under these conditions, no coin can be overvalued.

The fact is like that and certainly attracts investors' attention so that the token is burned.
The fewer tokens there are, the more expensive the price, for example, only Bitcoin is only 21,000,000.

For me it is a positive action since you could already predict the target market of a coin or tokebln.Ofcourse this also dictated by the market strategist. It will surely be a good strategy in a long run.

That is good somehow because having a limited supply of coins in the market will increase the market value of its investments therefore the demands on this coin will definitely boom in future.

Every buying and selling responds to demand and supply . So if the circulating supply of a coin is low , there is a tendency of such coin increasing in price because demand will be more than supply. But in crypto this law only works  when the developing team is active and there is a meaningful product behind the project . Otherwise nomatter how small a valueless token is , it won't still sell .

https://bitcoinwarrior.net/2018/09/what-are-hdms-tokens-and-whats-all-the-hype/

coins will have more value if it has demand with low supply circulating. so even if the coins have low supply circulating if it has no demand the value will still be low. so projects with high demand but low supply will likely increase its value because more will buy at a higher price.

I myself prefer coins or tokens that have a fairly low supply and have a clear product

in my opinion, circulation coins will make a very weak turnaround coins were not smooth. This must be bad, because the fewer devotees. and it could be that will weaken the value of the exchange rate.

I think if there are a lot of supplies of the coins and the circulation is low, that may be bad for the coins. It just shows that the coins are not that important in the circulation at all.

If the price is low and the total supply is small, one day the price will be very fast.
If we understand the system, creating coins so much is so that the future can be used and future use is evenly distributed.

Well obviously with the smaller amount of supply, there will be a big chance for the price of the coins to be higher, but that will be depend on the demand of the market, even though the supply is limited if the demand also low, then the price won't be able to rise significantly.

which determines good or bad tokens not the amount in circulation supply of tokens, but from platforms and teams, if the platform is good and the team always supports investors, I am sure the tokens will be good and prices will increase, so determining the good or bad tokens is the token platform and team not the amount in circulation supply of tokens.

I think if we compare the scenario to the local Fiat currencies and economy, Holding money is not healthy for the economy to regulate. Relating it to the crypto economy, holding cryptos is good, but it is better to regulate the supply of tokens for much more lively transactions.

This will be back on how good the existing systems or concept behind them and also the token team that exists therein. There are two speculations that might happen, first probably as you say that the less make it more rare and expensive it could have happened if does have quality. but the opposite is also too little will certainly be difficult to sell it and even investors are not interested in it.

the price will affect if the supply coin is too much, we can just take the example of doge coin whose total supply is 116 billion the price never rises so rapidly, unlike bitcoin which has only 21 million supply but from year to year has experienced a rapid increase, maybe the only way to fix tokens that are over supply must be burned

The price is not just about the supply of tokens. It also depends on how the tokens are supplied and the project. If it is just a clone project, chances are high that the price will fall and become eventually useless. If no progress is seen on the project or on the verge of being abandoned, the price will be low and end up dying. So, it totally depends on the potential of the project.

I think this perception is actually true to a reasonable extent. In the long run, any project that considers this should benefit greatly alongside their investors.

The logical way would be the smaller the supply then the rarer the coin would, and the price will also be higher. But sometimes it doesn't goes that way, there is time when a coin with low supply has a low price also, cause there aren't enough people who are looking on that coin.

Traders prefer low supply of tokens. I've made a lot of profits last year on low supplies and they usually can multiply up to 100x or 1kx if possible. They are good for short term trading and I have not seen any disadvantage of low supply coins because large supply coins even execute burning of their tokens.

Lower circulating of tokens is not so bad because it helps them to be on the wave and to have their particular way for the development and improving.

The lower going is not so bad because to my mind it is a ign of the stability, am I right? I consider that it will bring the constant stability but the bull run will make this deal more difficult.

Burning the unsold tokens is a good tactic IMO, we should not forget, that people tend to judge the coins / tokens not just by the actual price, but also by the total market value, and the smaller the circulating supply is, the less the market cap, which means theoretically more room to grow.

Technically yes, the fewer the supply the highest chance the price will be more valuable. But, it will go down with the demand and the use case of the tokens. Investors now are very smart about their investment. They invest in projects with an actual product and a great developer behind it.

It actually depends on the market demand, not on the circulating supply. If circulating supply would be the issue, there would be more coin same as BTC value. However, if the coin has utility, it will grow certainly. You have to for some time.

If any project burn some tokens it must have some influence on token prize. Because its limiting the total project value. Its is just simple math but we must not forget about manipulations can be happen on tokenamatics.

too little amount that there are certainly making it difficult enough will also be for sale. It may sometimes also be confusing. instead of becoming scarce then it is thus avoided expensive but not even practice. Perhaps it would be better if too little then avoid only fear for the outcome did not match expectations.

as an investor point of view it is better. if i invested to a project i check circulating supply and price of that altcoin. so those 2 parameters give you total cap of the project. if circulating supply is low then it means that there are not so many people that owns this altcoin in their wallets.

It is better to have a low circulating supply of coins instead of a higher one since low circulating supply of coins means it is easier for there to be scarcity of the coins and with scarcity comes a higher price of the coin. A coin with a low circulating supply of coins in the market has a higher chance of price going up than a coin with high circulating supply of coins