Thanks! Feel free to reach out on any of our social channels to chat with us any time. Happy to answer any/all questions.

We have 2 co-founders, so I am 100% certain that the plural case is appropriate. As for the remainder of your comment, I'll let the community read our white paper and decide for themselves if they think we are "shills". Our paper is of a higher quality than the vast majority of the marketing "white papers" out there from both a technical and economic standpoint.

Happy trolling though.

With US regulation of tokens up in the air, what fundraising method would give you the most confidence in a project/token?

In case you aren't aware, reg D limits sales to accredited investors only.

Thanks in advance for all opinions!

I can totally get behind these reasons, but I would order them in a different order of importance (just my opinion):

1. Regulatory clarity
2. Institutional money
3. Scaling improvements
4. Increased utility
5. Big ICOs

AI def has potential in the blockchain arena. Looking forward to this space maturing.

In economics, the concept of monetary policy is discussed as a basis for counter balancing GDP fluctuations above and below potential GDP. This has been shown to at least partly work after the 2008 crisis, however, the side effect (perhaps purposeful) was that the quantitative easing directly benefitted banks and the wealthy (wealthy being owners of financial assets), while those living paycheck to paycheck have suffered (no real wage growth, slow jobs growth, increasing education costs, increasing healthcare costs, increasing food costs).

With that said, in a theoretical bitcoin world economy, this inequality would be removed, but the ability to 'counter punch' economic swings by increasing/decreasing the money supply would no longer be an option. Central banks would have a harder time controlling interest rates as well because they wouldn't control the interbank lending rates (assuming banks wouldn't exist as they do today, because people wouldn't need their deposit services).

I guess the flip side is that banks caused the crisis in the first place, but the topic I'd like discussion on is pros/cons to a capped money supply system, from an economic standpoint. I know this is an theoretically complex topic, but any economics Ph.D.'s out there, now's your time to shine on the forum!

yep it's not just BTC, but the blockchain tech is allowing for financial markets to govern themselves more efficiently and operate with increased transparency without relying on trading desks to operate. Not to mention, if crypto tech integrates with POS systems and NFC tech, no one will need deposit accounts. Which would mean the whole system would get turned upside down from there.

In some ways it depends on whether BTC end up being more a store of value and potential reserve currency vs an all-purpose currency. BTC has a huge lead on cryptocurrencies that seek to simply be a better version of BTC. But, if the BTC dev team doesn't work to make BTC efficient for daily purchases, then something like LTC (or one of the many other projects) could become the dominant crypto for everyday purchases, with BTC remaining the primary store of value.

However, if something like LN works out, or the devs are successful in integrating BTC with POS systems, then BTC could rule the crypto universe so to speak, and coins like LTC/DASH/etc. would be in choppy waters.

The Petro is an interesting case. It's more like a commodity coin than a currency, but then again is also similar to the gold standard, except under the gold standard you could redeem the physical gold at a bank. I doubt anyone is redeeming barrels of crude lol. However, I saw a headline yesterday that Venezuela was going to offer a 30% discount on crude to anyone who purchased the oil using the Petro.

Can't verify the claim, that's a big discount tho so if it's true people will def use it for that at least.

I think these data points can identify short term variations in price/volume, but are unlikely to forecast long term trends. HODL is nothing more than a buzz word that went viral in the crypto community. The thing with buzz words is that they lose their flare after a while. It get's 'used up' so to speak. From that perspective, one would expect the term's use to die down under any market condition over the long term.

Another point would be that people who were shouting 'HODL!' when the bear market set in probably got tired of saying it after awhile lol.

To me, the even more powerful notion is that you could ban bitcoin, but it'd be hard to ban the idea underlying it because it could take many forms.

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Ambitious, but the market opportunity is huge. Another strength of the model is that the platform allows others in the community to build upon it because, unlike Ethereum dApps, it's a full platform. What we hope to accomplish is a robust market ecosystem that is managed by a large number of entities building applications on the platform.

Thanks for adding us. However, we are 'swapblocks' (1 word), not 'Swap Blocks'.

We've been informed the white paper link isn't appearing for some visitors. If that's the case, try this link: https://view.publitas.com/swapblocks/swapblocks_wp/

The roadmap looks good.  Any news on the animation video release? Some shareable content will go a long way with this project

The mention of soft/hard cap is a good one. Gives investors an idea of minimum funding to move forward and maximum before being inefficient.

Maybe after a few more responses I'll narrow it down and run a poll.

Loving the feedback! So far, seems like the top responses are:

Product/Market Opportunity
Team
Tokenomics
Marketing/Partnerships

These are very helpful responses. I'm a little surprised at the number of comments focused on bounty managers / bounty programs, but that's why I made the post. I want to know what others are looking at that I may not be placing enough focus on.