Crypto Token Incentives

Discussions center on how cryptocurrency projects monetize through tokens or coins, including pre-mining, incentives for participants, and skepticism about their value as shares or Ponzi schemes.

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Udownvotemeudie Jul 28, 2015 View on HN

How does the company behind it make money? Do they have 20% of ether supply or something?

bigbugbag Apr 17, 2017 View on HN

It does not have to be "real money", could be crypto currency generated by the very community, have a look at steem and steemit.

benhurmarcel May 12, 2021 View on HN

How does holding some coins give any incentive to anyone else?

whataretensors Nov 16, 2017 View on HN

I hope you are correct, coins are the right abstraction for shares. It requires talented people to take a risk.

LegitShady Mar 14, 2023 View on HN

a lot of people have gotten rich in the meantime and many tokens still have non zero value.

UncleMeat May 17, 2022 View on HN

You missed c) you want to make a lot of money by creating a new stablecoin and granting some percentage of it to yourself.

platz Apr 29, 2014 View on HN

Ah, I misunderstood - I thought they were getting their own coin. If it's just bitcoins then it's not an issue.

superkuh Apr 22, 2021 View on HN

It is a pre-mined coin. The creators of this cryptocurrency have sequestered away a large fraction of all possible coins for themselves.

TechDebtDevin Nov 19, 2025 View on HN

How is it useful other than for people making money off token outout. Continue to fry your brain.

cryptica Jul 29, 2024 View on HN

Where did I mention a specific blockchain or coin? How can I monetize my previous comment?It is deceptive to infer that there is a financial benefit. My idea is purely practical. It doesn't align with any mainstream financial interest, unlike yours which only serves incumbents.