The Dead Token Society; Blogtoken is Dead

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Blogtoken is dead

What does it take for a token to be dead?

For me, when researching a token, if its website is not up and running it is a great indicator that the project is dead.

What is the point after all, of having a blogging platform, when the platform is being listed for sale?

Worst, it is not being listed for sale as a small banner (or even an extremely large banner) on the page, the page is just a sale page.

It doesn't seem to stop people from buying the token.

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As you can see, there are not many buy orders for this token, but for some reason, there are still buy orders.

I simply cannot figure out why anyone would want to buy a token that has no site, no community, no leader, no... nothing.

Once upon a time, I was happy to buy blogtoken

It was cheap, it paid out daily, and it made my @intuitivewords posts look cool on Pinterest, since the payout looked so large.

It would pay me thousands of blogtoken per post, which was fun to look at, but not worth a whole lot.

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I don't think I lost much money.

Especially because the token was so cheap, I don't think I spent more than 10-20 HIVE on it.

The tokenomics were ridiculous, but the token used to pay out just for HODLing it. Not anymore, as I think something happened to the bot that made the payouts, and of course, there is no one to fix the bot.

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Or maybe I am not getting my daily blogtoken payout because I am currently unstaking?

I will be unstaking for a while as it takes 60 transactions to fully unstake.

I should feel guilty for having fun looking at this dead token, but I kinda don't.

Instead, I sell the token once a week to a willing buyer. It always seems to be a different buyer.

One of the times, I actually took the time to find and message the buyer of the token to let them know that the token was dead.

They didn't seem to care much, and I felt it was a complete waste of my time.

Should I feel bad for selling my bag?

I don't. And it isn't making me much money anyway.

Although I will state, that I am selling the token for slightly higher than I purchased it.

This is a silly post but the end result is to please pay attention to where you are "investing" your money.

I was investing in looks when I purchased blogtoken, I got what I paid for.

What are the people who are buying it now investing in?

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Sadly, it seems like the vast majority of Hive-Engine tokens suffer a similar fate. I do remember Blogtoken...

In most cases, I think these tokens are ill-conceived... having nothing to offer aside from "this is a way to earn extra rewards!" With no reason to actually BUY and OWN the token, it sets up a dynamic in which there are 90% sellers and only 10% (or fewer) buyers... and the price goes to zero.

In some cases, I believe the community founders simply discover that running and growing a community is a lot more work than they expected, and when the token price starts declining, they lose interest.

R.I.P. Blogtoken!

=^..^=

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Interesting case study, and I think you've nailed quite a few things in your comment - taking on a token project is a considerable responsibility that will will take a lot of time, over a long timescale. Not for the faint hearted.

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This is a silly post but the end result is to please pay attention to where you are "investing" your money.

Yep. Do your own research

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But, do you remember, it was exciting when Hive-Engine started? We were all getting a little bored ... write, post, comment, check your rewards, yawn. No big car-crash dramas (thinking um ... dtrade (?)) ... then there was Hive-Engine and anyone could create a token, and air drops, and you could buy hundreds/thousands/millions of tokens for half a Hive when it had taken months/years of your life to become a minnow ... everyone could be a whale now!

It was fun while it lasted. Some made it, some were experiments and some were just for fun.

I had a little of that again with the drop in Hive price, I could enjoy dropping a few Hive on something for fun 😍

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I do remember, and I do still love new projects rolling out. Especially when they come from the @spinvest group cause you know it means long term wealth.

What fun tokens have you been buying?

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Mmm, some SPS (as an investment, I don't play) and CTP as I'm enjoying trying out Listnerds.

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It's kind of fun to have a little collection of tokens for posterity. Only to be exceeded by my Discord wallet of largely worthless collection coin and tokens there but fun to have.

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