Q: is Utility token worth anything (as opposed to Platform and Security Tokens)? Rise of the Token Hugger Part 1: ICOs, Consensus & Credulity Pandemic Legally, apparently no future cashflows or claims are assigned. So what will happen with huge projects like EOS and TELEgram? It seems an open question to me (MT).
Q: Forks and copies of the open-source can be made. Cryptoassets are not backed by valuable physical assets, therefore it is hard to see a future for them. Is there a sustainable value in the cryptonetwork?
A: A brand of cryptonetwork can become established, and therefore become sustainable.
It is important to see where corporate and government cryptocoins can have advantages over public-project coins.
Q: How can the development of crypto-infrastructure be sustained at later stages?
A: ICO can be continuous. But again a balance between established brand and innovation needs to be governed on-chain and off-chain (governance). Analyzing Token Sale Models by Buterin Interactive coin offerings technical paper
Q: what is the essence of decentralization? About users? miners? validators?
**Q: is Utility token worth anything (as opposed to Platform and Security Tokens)?**
[Rise of the Token Hugger Part 1: ICOs, Consensus & Credulity Pandemic](https://medium.com/@tompocock/consensus-capital-part-1-dff72ba39a63) Legally, apparently no future cashflows or claims are assigned. So what will happen with huge projects like EOS and TELEgram? It seems an open question to me (MT).
**Q: Forks and copies of the open-source can be made. Cryptoassets are not backed by valuable physical assets, therefore it is hard to see a future for them. Is there a sustainable value in the cryptonetwork?**
A: A brand of cryptonetwork can become established, and therefore become sustainable.
It is important to see where corporate and government cryptocoins can have advantages over public-project coins.
**Q: How can the development of crypto-infrastructure be sustained at later stages?**
A: ICO can be continuous. But again a balance between established brand and innovation needs to be governed on-chain and off-chain (governance).
[Analyzing Token Sale Models](https://vitalik.ca/general/2017/06/09/sales.html) by Buterin
[Interactive coin offerings](https://medium.com/truebit/interactive-coin-offerings-7b05db0ff77e)
[technical paper](https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~teutsch/papers/ico.pdf)
**Q: what is the essence of decentralization?** About users? miners? validators?
> [Measuring Decentralization 09 Sep 2015](http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/measuring-decentralization/) Bitcoin’s Decentralization increases as a full node becomes cheaper.
So, is it about users after all?