RE: What is Theory?
I like that one. I've been feeling for a long time that market cap is a bad way to measure the success of a cryptocurrency in the same sense that population is a bad way to measure the success of a country. It is a measure, and it's an informative measure, but it ends up leading us to make apples/oranges comparisons between different things.
Steem vs. Bitcoin seems like a good example. They both have a cryptocurrency attached to them, but aside from that they're very different projects with very different goals. They have similar rates of inflation, but Steem uses its newly-minted tokens in a very different way from how Bitcoin uses its newly-minted tokens. I'm not sure why we should expect market cap to give us much information about which one is more useful.
It is interesting because market cap is a direct measure in another currency like USD, but the reason many coins exist to facilitate trade among people in a way that decouples us from that thinking. I'm probably not making sense because this is not my area of expertise by far, but its kind of like micro-GDP's , but we want to stop allowing outside forces dictate our ability to trade within certain markets. Steemit is trade in ideas/teaching/art, and we are simultaneously trying to stop putting a dollar value on it while also trying to figure out what our teaching value is in relation to rent or groceries. I love the crypto space because we are shaking our current systems to their core to see what aspects need to be removed as a give. @biophil, your students will be very lucky to have such an interesting and thoughtful teacher!
Wish I knew all this earlier.
Strongly disagree. It includes ideas, teaching and art. Limiting steem to only these concepts hurts the blockchain as a whole.
good one