A good monetary system should actually pay people to do transactions in it! Free transaction, and some reward for accepting transactions.
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This is true for Bitcoin if you're running your own bitcoin node, there's no need to mine, just run a node and be incentivized for facilitating a transaction and augment the security. That's the whole point of bitcoin once the last block is mined hence the term "Bitcoiner", you're not a Bitcoiner if you're just holding bitcoins in your cold wallet.
Thanks for the insightful comment! I should explain my point more clear:
The nodes and the miners help out doing the transactions, but that is paid by the ones doing the transactions while the hodlers are getting rewarded (or punished) for their ownership, not for that they provide a service.
But if you are selling something, you are not rewarded if you accept crypto assets. You might sell more, but as a seller, you don't know how much, and you can likely do better marketing instead.
EOS pays for transactions with inflation, so you don't want to own EOS-native tokens unless you need them to do transactions (for free). But that is an extreme case: Something in between where the hodlers do lose some of their value to make the token more accepted and a smaller amount of transactions free should work for "money", which EOS isn't trying to be, but there are stablecoins on the platform.
A good monetary system should actually pay people to do transactions in it! Free transaction, and some reward for accepting transactions.
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This is true for Bitcoin if you're running your own bitcoin node, there's no need to mine, just run a node and be incentivized for facilitating a transaction and augment the security. That's the whole point of bitcoin once the last block is mined hence the term "Bitcoiner", you're not a Bitcoiner if you're just holding bitcoins in your cold wallet.
Thanks for the insightful comment! I should explain my point more clear:
The nodes and the miners help out doing the transactions, but that is paid by the ones doing the transactions while the hodlers are getting rewarded (or punished) for their ownership, not for that they provide a service.
But if you are selling something, you are not rewarded if you accept crypto assets. You might sell more, but as a seller, you don't know how much, and you can likely do better marketing instead.
EOS pays for transactions with inflation, so you don't want to own EOS-native tokens unless you need them to do transactions (for free). But that is an extreme case: Something in between where the hodlers do lose some of their value to make the token more accepted and a smaller amount of transactions free should work for "money", which EOS isn't trying to be, but there are stablecoins on the platform.