The podcast announced the creation of WLFT, a non transferable governance token.
How do you actually make a token "non transferable?"
Ultimately, the cryptographic key decides who owns the token. So even if the token isn't directly transferable, you can still package the key within a vault, and transfer the vault. Sadly this is an area I haven't really kept up on in detail over the past 5 years. Can someone explain if there is a way to make something that can't be encapsulated into a different instrument?
What exactly are your purchasing when buying this governance token?
Influence? voting rights? OK. But if you can't transfer the token, and you become disillusioned with the direction your peers are taking the organization, is there no exit strategy at all? How exactly does this work? You and your progeny are stuck with this forever?
Why does the team need 20% for incentive?
If it's a non transferable token for governance only, how exactly does withholding 20% of these for team compensation help? In order for this to make sense, the tokens must have a financial value. What is the financial value for these things? It seems this is just to make sure that insiders have significant control of the board of this organization. This is probably the most disappointing aspect of the announcement. Similarly, what is the 17% for "incentives"? How does a non transferable governance token incentivize people? I don't think I want people "incentivized" to control me or platforms that I use. The customers should be the ones ultimately dictating direction.
The general talk around this platform is they are going to be lending "stable coins" to the public. Sadly, there is exactly zero information so far about how they intend to administer or audit these stable coins, or even what the products are going to be.
Trump really failed spectacularly on this one. If he was hoping to energize the crypto community in his favor, this was a massive bust. And it doesn't give me any confidence he's going to do a good job reshaping the US economy as we move forward through this crisis if this is the best he can do at sharing his vision. I understand this is his company and not the government (yet), but people have patterns. And this pattern is disturbing to say the least.
Yeah I listened to it and thought it was a nothing burger!
Worse than being a nothing burger, it is raising serious questions in my mind about who is influencing him, and what that implies for how he's going to re-engineer the US financial system.
I agree.
I love Trump. But sometimes i question the whole plan because of stuff like this.
Trump is a marketing and promotion genius. That worries me sometimes!
That he oversells things because of hype. Marketing people always hype things to sell it.
What else is he just hyping up to market and sell it.
I'm sorry I just don't understand and crypto. All I see is the ability to take away our money by controlling how we spend it. We are able to see that THEY already try to contolmeverything that is on the constitution. Why do we think somebody, somewhere will try to control us via money.not to mention all this needs energy and our infrastructure is unreliable. In my mind its just the latest shiny to chase.