Despite the premium price, Lee wrote in a report that «GBTC at $ 688 and with 20 % NAV premium is an attractive way to gain exposure to bitcoin,» stating that the NAV spread is inaccurate because it does not factor in
the value of the airdropped coins from Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold, altcoins that were created from bitcoin forks.
He also added that the NAV spread is not accurate as it does not have any role to play in determining
the value of airdropped coins from bitcoin gold and bitcoin cash or altcoins created as a resultant of Bitcoin hard forks.
Not exact matches
The
airdrop model solves both
of these requirements by creating an initial userbase and incentivising people to add
value to thier
airdropped coins.
As a method to pump coin
value, coins would announce
airdrops where coin holders would receive bonus coins proportional to the amount
of total coins they hold.
With TRX trading around $.05, the
airdrop has an estimated
value of $ 1.5 million.
With a number
of other forks which occurred in 2017 and more so coming up this year, having access to every
airdrop would enable users to reap the full
value of Bitcoin and its decentralized character.
Omise decided to conduct an
airdrop to raise awareness about the project, but Hasegawa spoke to the broader benefits
of the distribution model, writing in an email to CoinDesk — via a spokesperson, «The real
value of ethereum projects doing
airdrops to all ETH holders is that it's a crypto economic mechanism designed to incentivize ethereum project communities to maintain alignment with the entire ethereum community.»
With a number
of other forks which occurred in 2017 and more so coming up this year, having access to every
airdrop would enable users to reap the full
value of Bitcoin and its decentralized character.
Another example is OmiseGo (OMG), which was
airdropped in July 2017 at a
value of roughly $ 0.20 per coin and traded as high as $ 25 and is currently at $ 11.86 a coin.
OmiseGo decided to do an
airdrop to raise awareness about the project, but Allen spoke to the broader benefits
of airdrops, saying, «The real
value of ethereum projects doing
airdrops to all ETH holders is that it's a crypto economic mechanism designed to incentivize ethereum project communities to maintain alignment with the entire ethereum community.»
By gifting new assets to existing cryptocurrency users, so - called «
airdrops» are proving explosive, enabling the sudden creation
of massive amounts
of value almost overnight.
Auroracoin's
value has slumped somewhat on exchanges like Cryptsy, however, going from a high
of 0.0285 BTC two days before the
Airdrop to a low
of 0.0075 BTC on 26th March, its heaviest trading day.