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Yes. Metrics can be traded, exchanged, and have value.
Are Metrics the same as Bitcoin?
No. Metrics are a digital currency, unlike Bitcoin. They feature privacy and have no transaction fees. The key features of Metrics are an elastic, predictable money supply, high transactability, and an incentive to spend the money, rather than hold it.
How long does a transaction take to complete?
Transactions complete immediately.
Is the price stable?
Yes. This is because the money supply is elastic and pegged to the number of verified members. It grows automatically as verified members join and use the platform. It prevents monetary inflation, and removes the incentives that cause currency deflation.
Can I invest in Metric like in bitcoin?
No. The currency is price stable, and designed for making transactions. There are no miners, and no incentive for holding the currency long term. You can, however, use Metrics to build wealth in new businesses, services, and products, by paying for goods and labor in Metrics.
Can I become a miner?
No, there are no miners.
How do I get an “air-drop”
You cannot. There are no air-drops, no early participation rewards, and no need for such things. Our foundation does not trade Metrics for other currencies, and is not for profit. When you confirm your identity you will begin receiving a UBI of M$10,000 monthly. Every beneficiary receives one and only one allotment, and unused money is continuously taxed away at a rate of 1% per month.
If every beneficiary receives M$10.000 each month, why isn’t there inflation?
The M$10.000 deposited each month is funded by a 1% draw that happens across the network. Accounts above M$1.000.000 will see their accounts shrink slightly every month (less than 1%). Accounts less than M$1.000.000 will see a slight increase every month, with an amount that becomes larger and larger the closer to M$0 the account is. Accounts at M$0 will see M$10,000 deposited. This is because 1% is being drawn, and M$10.000 are being put back in.
Abstract: To the question, “what features would make for an ideal, highly transactable, universally adopted digital currency?” we explore major limitations with existing cryptocurrencies and propose a digital money called CHANCES.
What is the ideal currency?
The ideal currency would have stable prices, an elastic and predictable money supply, no transaction costs, and be widely obtainable by participants in any economy. We consider the relationships between wealth, assets, and money, and propose CHANCES as a better currency than traditional fiat and cryptos, and we take full advantage of an all digital currency.
CHANCES…
… pegs the money supply to the total number of verified participants.
… gives 1.000.000 (one-million) c$ to every new verified participant
… allows one and only one authentic registration (participants cannot sign up more than once)
… continuously replenishes verified accounts below 1.000.000 c$ (without inflating money supply, at up to 10.000 c$ monthly)
… slowly draws money from accounts over 1.000.000 c$ (at a rate of less than 1% per month)
… has no transaction fees, no miners, can reverse fraudulent transactions, and insure deposits.
Why?
Money is in all ways relative. It is not wealth, in and of itself, so what is it?
CHANCES supposes that in modern, western economies, which are roughly 2/3rds service based, money mainly represents economic potential, such as the ability to command someone’s attention to perform labor or a service or to create something to be consumed. CHANCES explicitly draws on this connection by supposing that 1.) the money supply represents the total economic potential of all participants in an economy, 2.) that a unit of money represents some portion of potential thereof, and 3.) since the economic value is different between each participant, the function of the marketplace is to continuously discover these relative values and adjust money flows (income and prices) proportionately. For example, a doctor might be paid more than a car mechanic, which is what the marketplace participants are free to discover.
CHANCES looks at money as economic potential, and considers that it must be replenished continuously through the economy and that high participation optimizes choice and competition in a marketplace.
We suppose that the initial allotment of 1.000.000 c$ is approximately 8.5 years of average potential economic value of any random individual. Initial allotments help produce new capital pools to be used in organized endeavors within the economy and can be used to expand money supply through lending and borrowing.
10.000 c$ is distributed to all identity-verified accounts monthly to replenish participation capability in the economy, and proves each verified participant credit worthy. This distribution is funded by simultaneously drawing 1% monthly from all account balances. This has the following effect on verified account balances:
Starting balance
Monthly change
0
+ 10.000 c$
500.000
+ 5.000 c$
1.000.000
no change
1.500.000
– 5.000 c$
2.000.000
– 10.000 c$
Unverified and anonymous accounts may exist, however, they are not given an initial allotment and do not receive any monthly benefit. Additionally, they are still subject to the 1% universal draw-down and they do not affect the base money supply.
Money supply
Pegging money supply to number of verified participants (benefactors) is a novel way to to keep prices stable while encouraging the network to grow. There is no hold and wait incentive that shows up in traditional cryptocurrencies, and there is no late-adopter penalty where people who come in later pay more to enter.
The following shows the relationship between verified participants and the money supply.
Accounts
Base Money Supply (in millions)
Relative Value
1 verified account 1 wallet
1 c$
1
1 verified account 100 wallets
1 c$
1
1000 verified accounts 10.952 wallets
1.000 c$
1
365.000.000 verified accounts 1bln wallets
365.000.000 c$
1
8 bln verified accounts 100 bln wallets
8.000.000.000 c$
1
Operating and maintaining this public, not for profit network will require overhead. We propose that internal accounts will be created and tied exclusively to a CHANCES Foundation. These accounts will be listed publicly and used to spend money on the network to cover operational costs which will also be publicly posted. Internally used accounts will be subject to the same 1% draw and replenishment rules.
Features of Chances
Chances
Bitcoin
Centralized
Yes
No
Reversible Transactions
Yes
No
Transaction fees
None
Variable/high
Transaction speed
Immediate
*1 hour+
Deposit insurance
Yes
No
Privacy
Yes
No
Anonymity
No
**No
Money supply
Elastic
Constrained
Price volatility
Stable
Volatile
Transactability
High
Low
Low energy consumption
Yes
No
Cryptographically secure
Yes
Yes
Meaningful
Yes
No
Incentive to spend
Yes
No
* Variable ** Functionally, not anonymous.
Privacy & anonymity
Anonymity is the ability to transact without exposing identifying information to any counter-party or 3rd-party. Privacy is a degree of protection from having your transactions disclosed to a 3rd-party.
Cryptocoins, although transactionally secure, offer no anonymity above and beyond existing methods available to all forms of money, such as obfuscation through legal entities, or bank mixing schemes, and indeed, they decrease privacy as every transaction is publicly recorded. One need only know some number of wallet locations and their benefactors in order to reveal a detailed picture of participants.
Primary exposure points include:
Exchanging into crypto at market through an exchange.
Establishing “mining” setups while paying for them with non-crypto currency.
Behavioral analysis, by tracking the flow of transactions and their timings to deduce whom has transacted.
Use of third party wallets.
Truly, in any mode of exchange, some level of personal detail is exposed, and any transaction can only be undertaken if the benefits outweigh the risk of exposure. Many transactions indeed benefit from knowing the counter party to the transaction, such as when using bank cards and 3rd party payment processors to create safe and trustworthy shopping environments.
Although not anonymous, typical banking laws in OECD countries offer superior privacy to distributed ledger based crypto currencies. True anonymity for a widely adopted currency seems neither possible nor practical, and we instead take a view towards privacy in establishing the framework for Chances.
Distributed ledgers
Given that distributed ledgers do not protect privacy, we do not intend to implement them for CHANCES. We expect to use a cryptographically secure, private ledger than can be audited without disclosing user information.