Thank you, but I am confident in my knowledge on the topic. There is no way you can predict how markets will react. Especially a market as thin as NSR.
Shareholders should get value returned to them with share buy backs, but it is not certain nor a guarantee. Just as block reward halvings are thought by many to increase the price, people are always wrong and get burned trying to outsmart the market. I truly believe these will have the same effect as a pump and dump. Think what you want, but the team has not laid out nor addressed any concerns I have made about how these will occur.
How much money has the team network lost already trying to predict the NSR market?
Could you explain more what you mean by this quote, and how a hypothetical attack might play out?
Are you are referring to the possibility of someone placing a sell order for the entire buy-back amount at the current price of NSR in order to “steal” the entire amount?
It seems as if that tactic could be mitigated simply by announcing the buyback window well in advance. If a custodian declared that on April 7, 2015, buybacks would happen sporadically throughout the 24 hour period, every shareholder could place sell orders if they wanted to, or instruct their own NuBot to always have a sell order at the top of the order book. The benefit of inside information would be greatly reduced. I’m not an expert on this however, maybe others can chime in.
I don’t understand this comment. Are you referring to Nu custodian @Jmiller hedging against BTC loss with NSR purchase? He provided clarity on his decision here Why does Nu have NSR on the balance sheet?
Who are you referring to by “the team” in your question? I’m not aware of any NSR speculation that has occurred by the Nu product team in any official capacity. Individual, personal trading, sure, but Jordan Lee is the only one involved in NSR distribution and I find it hard to classify that as relating to “market prediction”.
If you’re thinking of @jmiller’s short-lived hedging strategy, remember that custodians are not part of the Nu team, they are part of the larger Nu community. Any losses in that case would be limited to whatever funds were put into it. Last time the topic came up I looked at the valuation and it was something like ~3600 NBT (~600,000 NSR @ $0.006/NSR; a month or so ago when it was reported).
Assuming it is recoverable from BTER those ~600,000 NSR @ $0.003/NSR are worth ~1800 NBT, so I’ll answer “a loss of ~1800 NBT in shareholder value” to your question.
I also thought about that and honestly I would always prefer a proposal where the custodian proves by signature that he or she already possesses the amount of NSR to be burned.
Maybe the share buy back can also be implemented similar to the parking system: shareholders vote on a particular amount of NSR that should be burned for a certain compensation (like parking duration and rates).
Everyone then can decide to take this offer and buy NSR from the market at any time, or use own NSR, and transform them immediately into NBT using the client. And it will be very hard to trade against one particular trader.
Yes, @Sentinelrv those are all good points. I agree that distributing the proceeds from NuBit sales was not a very good idea. I also realize that the network is not likely to return any value to shareholders for some time. But how are these two points relevant to the discussion as to whether dividends or NSR buybacks are the better option? There is no need for buy backs. It does not solve either problem mentioned.
Ben: Hey, Jamie, how is the NSR purchases going?
jmiller: Good, Ben, we are about half way through the $50,000 purchase.
Ben: Awesome, the orderbooks are empty, it’s like nobody wants to sell!
jmiller: Yes, we are not going to get many NSR out of circulation, but CoinMarketCap sure is looking good at this moment.
At this point, Ben has knowledge that is valuable to any NSR trader or shareholder looking to benefit from this buy back. Everyone wants to sell at the top, obviously. He can now estimate when the pump (or profits in which all shareholders are entitled to) is almost exhausted. Alternately, jmiller could use this information to their own advantage without anyone knowing. Surely this information is not going to be public, though maybe it should be in the interest of transparency.
Maybe you can find where anybody mentions how much of the buy support BTC was spent on NuShares
and then we can do the necessary math.
Ben, you are one of the team members mentioned.
I am positive the amount of BTC lost as a result of the NSR price crash is a few hundred percent higher than 1800 NBT
@jmiller brought it up, yes, and asked for my opinion. I do not feel that it makes me a party to the actions because there was never a directive given (nor could there be). I have no more access to Jamie’s accounts than you do.
Custodians routinely discuss Nu- and NuBot-related topics with the product team; hopefully that doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
I don’t follow. From what I’ve read on the forums, NSR held on BTER is actually available for withdrawal. Had the BTC that @jmiller converted into NSR been left in BTC they would be lost along with the rest of the BTC siphoned off during the theft. The valuation I used is based on the 50% drop in NSR value since the theft occurred and BTER’s market for NSR dried up vs. today’s price.
If you read jmiller’s response, there is no way for myself to know how much you were involved. It sounded like you vouched for the plan. When I was asking the questions to jmiller you seemed careful not to disclose anything about the hedging plan, so when jmiller mentioned you I was left to imagine. Though I tried not to be accusatory to the best of my ability.
I have not been given enough information to calculate this, which shocks me that I seem to be the only person curious about it. All we have been told is approximate dates in which the NSR was purchased.
And that’s definitely a fair assumption, given the information you had at the time. I didn’t read your response as accusatory, and I hope I didn’t come across as confrontational in my response – internet postings tend to lack the nuance that verbal conversations have.
Knowing the dates should be enough, shouldn’t it? BTC exchange rates on a given day should be straight-forward to extrapolate what the paper loss would be.
A pump and dump is a deliberate price manipulation tactic designed to solely benefit the attacker(s) … A buyback and burn is quite different. I’m quite confident that Jordan cares enough about this project to not do anything reckless like buy up the whole order book to pump the price. I envision this to be something much more like large buy walls which will remain in place until gone. If this causes the public to panic buy above the walls, a “pump” in value might be observed, but with no dump to follow unless large holders decide to voluntarily sell. Even if that were to happen, selling would have to exceed buying for price to “dump” … this is extremely unlikely. If holders were willing to push the price down further than where the buying starts, we would already be seeing much more aggressive selling right now.
Thank you both for speaking to my concerns with how NSR burning will occur. These are indeed both transparent ways of performing the buybacks. I think it would be wise to have this planned out well in advance, which is one reason I would prefer we stick with dividends at this time.
Buy back and dividends are not at all in competition in my opinion, since buy back without a dividend system doesn’t make sense. As you clearly pointed out, a price increase of NSR is not to expect, or at least the normal shareholder would be unable to take advantage of it.
But if I have the same amount of NSR before and after NSR get burned, then I have a larger fraction of the total amount of NSR afterwards. This in turn will lead to a larger payout for me when dividends get paid (assuming the revenue is the same or larger).
This is in my opinion the most important question shareholders have to answer when they need to decide whether they want to burn NSR or get dividends paid: Either you take your dividend now our you speculate on a larger future dividend.
Shareholders have passed a motion expressing their preference to perform NSR buybacks instead of dividends which was included in the motion modifying KTm’s proposal.
Absolutely not. It is definitely a way of returning value to shareholders. I have concerns about the level of effectiveness and the general trends in crypto-currency trading.
NuShares have no value, at all. They are dead asset, they are valued only on paper. There is no way for person holding NuShares to exchange them, there is no liquidity on markets. Nu has entered downward spiral, and it needs to break this magic circle of downfall. Share buyback is best solution I can think of to bring new life to Nu, no matter how much I would like to see another Peercoin dividend or how much I want Peercoin price to go up.
In past two weeks I have handled IPO for Teehe project. Most of applicants obviously came from Peercoin and Nu community. What they have told me is that they wish that Peercoin was worth more, and they have entered Peercoin at triple or quadruple prices than are today. I imagine this is the way things are for most of us here.
Also, a lot of people asked me to if it is possible to invest in NuShares. Why did they ask that? They have asked it because NuShares have no value, and they can not get NuBits or Bitcoins/Peercoins for them to invest in Teehe. They are stuck with worthless NuShares at this moment.
People are holding dead weight, you must realize this. Many community members have invested too much into Nu, they have invested because they want Peercoin to succeed; they want Peercoin dividends. But before that, NuShares have to become wanted again for Nu to succeed, otherwise this community will start to dissipate and “experiment” will fail - which will hurt Peercoin too.
The Nu network has maintained a stable peg for over half a year. The quality of our primary product NuBits has not changed at all. Once new exchanges begin adding NuShares trading (after we release our source code), liquidity will resume. Daily NSR trading volume is only about 2000 NBT per day right now, or about 0.1% of total supply. Anything under 1% in traditional equity is just considered random noise.
Most of the NuShare price decline has occurred after shareholders passed a motion moving dividends to the back burner. I am not saying that this is the sole reason, but to say that allowing for NSR burning is the only thing that can save Nu is just inaccurate.