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source(s): [ ] Alexander HIrner 1
 1) Tokens as a means of exchange and why
Bitcoin 1.0 ‘s value is limited
 2) Token Value Drivers (theory and empirical data)
 3) Prediction: Investment Advice
Outline
source(s): [1, 2] Alexander HIrner 2
 Common Wisdom: price ↑ if mass acceptance
 large retail players accepting them
 ease of use (i.e. easy / low risk)
 assumption = token monopoly or no circulation after first
buy
Token Prices
  wrong as long as there co-exist with “you-can-
buy-everything” currencies (e.g. roughly fiat)
 M * V = P * Q  Tokens * Speed of Exchange =
nominal Price * Value of Goods
source(s): [2] Alexander HIrner 3
 M * V = P * Q | / $ …Measure in $ market cap
 nbtc * BTCprice * V/$ = P/$ * Q/$
Token Prices continued
Intuition #1: If I buy a coffee with BTC, why shouldn’t the shop spend it subsequently?
ex.: Overstock (90%), Microsoft, Dell, Expedia, virtually all mom & pop shops (100%)
BTCprice = nbtc * Q / V
++++
-- Hoarding
Liquidity Demand
Buying more stuff
1
Intuition #2: Why should employee receiving BTC-wages compound savings in BTC
when value depends on everyone else doing the same (hoarding, volatility)?
source(s): [3 - 7] Alexander HIrner 4
Adoption != higher Price
Less
acceptance
More
acceptance
fueling
expectations..
source(s): [3 - 7] Alexander HIrner 5
Adoption = lowers Price (pops
hoarding bubbles)
Mio.$perQuarter
0
100
~20 Mio.
57 Mio.
94
CoinDesk merchant revenue
China hoarding bubble +
mtGox shock
Utility < PoW maintenance
What causes tokens to appreciate
‘sustainably’?
 Common features of tokens with fundamental value
 Exclusive access to unique goods and services
 Represent scarcity tied to something else than the token itself
source(s): [ ] Alexander HIrner 6
In war/communism/crisis currency
drops against foodstamps (get them
trough social capital or bribery)
Appreciate on black market if band
coveted
Don’t go to jail: personal freedom is
extremely valuable (bailment only for
the affluent)
Food Stamps
Concert Tickets
Tax on Land &
Building
source(s): [c.f. 9] Alexander HIrner 7
Model: disentangling supply and
demand
Convertibility (i.e. lots of exchanges,
multitude of tokens), drive down
Liquidity Demand
Network effect <->
dominant design
price ↑
Hoarding
• anticipated future access to …
• Fanboyism (unfounded expectations)
Access to unique/scarce
products & services
Liquidity Demand
Multiple payment options
(i.e. fiat) drive down
uniqueness
+ self-referencing flocking behavior 
volatility
How much can you access exclusively via
Bitcoin 1.0? … not much
 Procurement of illicit goods,
aka S*lkroad et al.
 Cross border remittance
 Anarchy means-of-payment
source(s): [8] Alexander HIrner 8
 Illegal  unsustainable
 appropriate cases (Africa,
Philippines) but capital control rules
 competition Transferwise (~80%
less fees)
 Blockchain depends on civilization &
physical public goods (electricity,
bandwidth, governance)
 .. and has maintenance costs
(buried gold has not)
source(s): [10 - 12] Alexander HIrner 9
Crowdsale: ~Mio. 60 ETH for 31,529 BTC (0.005
per BTC, 0.21 per $)
ETH Speculation
- floating ~10% of ETH
- (still) low liquidity
- discounted by counter-party risk
0.0035 BTC… ↑
0.78 $ … ~
~ 6 times ↑ vs. BTC.
~ 4 times ↑ vs $
source(s): [] Alexander HIrner 10
 Fanboyism
 Volatility
 Access to
unique
products
The components of ETH Price
hard to measure
high initial inflation
rate
Component Measurement Suggestion
certainly high (+
risk of security
flaws)
short-term hedging
or even better: sell
own derivatives
rather mine than
buy if not sure why
mid-term: have
them earlier on the
radar than others
and buy
accordingly
Announcment and
Deployment of
major DApps
Dapps on the Radar
source(s): [e.g. 13 - 16 ] Alexander HIrner 11
Non ETH
 Gaming! PangeaPoker
(big traction in NXT community)
 Sharing + Reputation =
LaZooZ (how good?)
 Crowdfunding with Arbitration
and Transparency =
LightHouse
 P2P paid Storage …
 Lodging services
(Airlock)
 Securities
(DigixGlobal)
 Even better crowd-
funding
 Dec. Exchange
EtherX
 All these DApps
demand ETH/GAS
Takeaways & Implications
Alexander HIrner 12
Morale:
If you hoard BTC and simultaneously demand it to be the only form of
money, you cause unemployment (and bubbles)
Socioeconomic:
Tokens don't operate in a vacuum and have no value unless
granting access to something you can't (easily) get by other means
Pure payment solutions are proxies for local currencies given they
feed back into the economy and thus have low upper limit of price
(which bitcoin 1.0 might already have touched)
Crypto tokens that are accepted only by convention of a minority, i.e.
without enforceable social contracts are not a good store of value (but
have high maintenance costs, depend on civilization, e.g. electricity, storage, bandwidth, human
governance, long-term investments)
Investment:
long-term appreciation tied to exclusive access to unique products and
services (e.g. crowd equity with programmable governance rules, legal internet services, early bird
access to prototypes, data intelligence; and is susceptible to a race for dominant design and network effects)
Sources1) http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea
2) Joseph Wang - A Simple Macroeconomic Model of Bitcoin http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2394024
3) http://www.slideshare.net/CoinDesk/state-of-bitcoin-2015
4) overstock reported big sales 10th January 2014 https://twitter.com/OverstockCEO/status/421682424976654336
5) Tigerdirect announced on 23rd of January http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140123005942/en/TigerDirect-Major-Internet-Retailer-
Accept-Bitcoin-BitPay#.VNviOkIVNPM
6) http://time.com/money/3658361/dell-microsoft-expedia-bitcoin/
7) Merchant's accrued evenue according to CoinDeks's "State of Bitcoin" slides, probably not bn but Mio. [sic!]:
2014 Q1: estimation 30% total in Q2 = 8.7 $bn
2014 Q2: 29 $bn (until June) delta = 20.3
2014 Q3: 86 $bn. delta = 57
2014 Q4: 180 $bn delta = 94
8) https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/20/bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects/ http://suitpossum.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/academic-
bitcoin-research.html
9 ) https://transferwise.com
10) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=798031.160 "Are there really any substantive guarantees that 1 ethercoin will get you 1 ethereum?? -->
"Are you blind? Of course no"
11) http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethercoin/#charts
12) https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ethercoin-price-falling-are-investors-rightfully-disillusioned/
13) @PangeaPoker on NXT ... as an example for Gaming as a source of exclusively accessible goods:
on great demand by the community
14) What about Chess players on Ethereum (they want certainty and transparency, cf. Vinay Gupta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6_30eKQeN8)
15) Lodging services running via http://airlock.me
16) EtherStarter, modular governance choices in future versions https://github.com/dafcok/ethereum/tree/master/dapps/etherstarter
source(s): [ ] Alexander HIrner 13

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7th Etherum Meetup Vienna: Crypto Token Economy - Price of ETH, Bitcoin 1.0 and others within a multi-currency world

  • 2. source(s): [ ] Alexander HIrner 1  1) Tokens as a means of exchange and why Bitcoin 1.0 ‘s value is limited  2) Token Value Drivers (theory and empirical data)  3) Prediction: Investment Advice Outline
  • 3. source(s): [1, 2] Alexander HIrner 2  Common Wisdom: price ↑ if mass acceptance  large retail players accepting them  ease of use (i.e. easy / low risk)  assumption = token monopoly or no circulation after first buy Token Prices   wrong as long as there co-exist with “you-can- buy-everything” currencies (e.g. roughly fiat)  M * V = P * Q  Tokens * Speed of Exchange = nominal Price * Value of Goods
  • 4. source(s): [2] Alexander HIrner 3  M * V = P * Q | / $ …Measure in $ market cap  nbtc * BTCprice * V/$ = P/$ * Q/$ Token Prices continued Intuition #1: If I buy a coffee with BTC, why shouldn’t the shop spend it subsequently? ex.: Overstock (90%), Microsoft, Dell, Expedia, virtually all mom & pop shops (100%) BTCprice = nbtc * Q / V ++++ -- Hoarding Liquidity Demand Buying more stuff 1 Intuition #2: Why should employee receiving BTC-wages compound savings in BTC when value depends on everyone else doing the same (hoarding, volatility)?
  • 5. source(s): [3 - 7] Alexander HIrner 4 Adoption != higher Price Less acceptance More acceptance fueling expectations..
  • 6. source(s): [3 - 7] Alexander HIrner 5 Adoption = lowers Price (pops hoarding bubbles) Mio.$perQuarter 0 100 ~20 Mio. 57 Mio. 94 CoinDesk merchant revenue China hoarding bubble + mtGox shock Utility < PoW maintenance
  • 7. What causes tokens to appreciate ‘sustainably’?  Common features of tokens with fundamental value  Exclusive access to unique goods and services  Represent scarcity tied to something else than the token itself source(s): [ ] Alexander HIrner 6 In war/communism/crisis currency drops against foodstamps (get them trough social capital or bribery) Appreciate on black market if band coveted Don’t go to jail: personal freedom is extremely valuable (bailment only for the affluent) Food Stamps Concert Tickets Tax on Land & Building
  • 8. source(s): [c.f. 9] Alexander HIrner 7 Model: disentangling supply and demand Convertibility (i.e. lots of exchanges, multitude of tokens), drive down Liquidity Demand Network effect <-> dominant design price ↑ Hoarding • anticipated future access to … • Fanboyism (unfounded expectations) Access to unique/scarce products & services Liquidity Demand Multiple payment options (i.e. fiat) drive down uniqueness + self-referencing flocking behavior  volatility
  • 9. How much can you access exclusively via Bitcoin 1.0? … not much  Procurement of illicit goods, aka S*lkroad et al.  Cross border remittance  Anarchy means-of-payment source(s): [8] Alexander HIrner 8  Illegal  unsustainable  appropriate cases (Africa, Philippines) but capital control rules  competition Transferwise (~80% less fees)  Blockchain depends on civilization & physical public goods (electricity, bandwidth, governance)  .. and has maintenance costs (buried gold has not)
  • 10. source(s): [10 - 12] Alexander HIrner 9 Crowdsale: ~Mio. 60 ETH for 31,529 BTC (0.005 per BTC, 0.21 per $) ETH Speculation - floating ~10% of ETH - (still) low liquidity - discounted by counter-party risk 0.0035 BTC… ↑ 0.78 $ … ~ ~ 6 times ↑ vs. BTC. ~ 4 times ↑ vs $
  • 11. source(s): [] Alexander HIrner 10  Fanboyism  Volatility  Access to unique products The components of ETH Price hard to measure high initial inflation rate Component Measurement Suggestion certainly high (+ risk of security flaws) short-term hedging or even better: sell own derivatives rather mine than buy if not sure why mid-term: have them earlier on the radar than others and buy accordingly Announcment and Deployment of major DApps
  • 12. Dapps on the Radar source(s): [e.g. 13 - 16 ] Alexander HIrner 11 Non ETH  Gaming! PangeaPoker (big traction in NXT community)  Sharing + Reputation = LaZooZ (how good?)  Crowdfunding with Arbitration and Transparency = LightHouse  P2P paid Storage …  Lodging services (Airlock)  Securities (DigixGlobal)  Even better crowd- funding  Dec. Exchange EtherX  All these DApps demand ETH/GAS
  • 13. Takeaways & Implications Alexander HIrner 12 Morale: If you hoard BTC and simultaneously demand it to be the only form of money, you cause unemployment (and bubbles) Socioeconomic: Tokens don't operate in a vacuum and have no value unless granting access to something you can't (easily) get by other means Pure payment solutions are proxies for local currencies given they feed back into the economy and thus have low upper limit of price (which bitcoin 1.0 might already have touched) Crypto tokens that are accepted only by convention of a minority, i.e. without enforceable social contracts are not a good store of value (but have high maintenance costs, depend on civilization, e.g. electricity, storage, bandwidth, human governance, long-term investments) Investment: long-term appreciation tied to exclusive access to unique products and services (e.g. crowd equity with programmable governance rules, legal internet services, early bird access to prototypes, data intelligence; and is susceptible to a race for dominant design and network effects)
  • 14. Sources1) http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea 2) Joseph Wang - A Simple Macroeconomic Model of Bitcoin http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2394024 3) http://www.slideshare.net/CoinDesk/state-of-bitcoin-2015 4) overstock reported big sales 10th January 2014 https://twitter.com/OverstockCEO/status/421682424976654336 5) Tigerdirect announced on 23rd of January http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140123005942/en/TigerDirect-Major-Internet-Retailer- Accept-Bitcoin-BitPay#.VNviOkIVNPM 6) http://time.com/money/3658361/dell-microsoft-expedia-bitcoin/ 7) Merchant's accrued evenue according to CoinDeks's "State of Bitcoin" slides, probably not bn but Mio. [sic!]: 2014 Q1: estimation 30% total in Q2 = 8.7 $bn 2014 Q2: 29 $bn (until June) delta = 20.3 2014 Q3: 86 $bn. delta = 57 2014 Q4: 180 $bn delta = 94 8) https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/20/bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects/ http://suitpossum.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/academic- bitcoin-research.html 9 ) https://transferwise.com 10) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=798031.160 "Are there really any substantive guarantees that 1 ethercoin will get you 1 ethereum?? --> "Are you blind? Of course no" 11) http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethercoin/#charts 12) https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ethercoin-price-falling-are-investors-rightfully-disillusioned/ 13) @PangeaPoker on NXT ... as an example for Gaming as a source of exclusively accessible goods: on great demand by the community 14) What about Chess players on Ethereum (they want certainty and transparency, cf. Vinay Gupta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6_30eKQeN8) 15) Lodging services running via http://airlock.me 16) EtherStarter, modular governance choices in future versions https://github.com/dafcok/ethereum/tree/master/dapps/etherstarter source(s): [ ] Alexander HIrner 13

Editor's Notes

  1. Crypto Token Economy: Price of ETH, Bitcoin 1.0 and others within a multi-currency world
  2. add merchant revenue of coinbase