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by Animats 3190 days ago
It's not clear that their own platform gives value to their own tokens. They talk about wallets on their platform holding BTC or ETH.[1] Their own token mostly funds them.

[1] https://cdn.omise.co/omg/whitepaper.pdf

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It's absolutely clear, given the plan is to make OMG the staking token used for securing the OmiseGo sub-chain. It's right there in the abstract of the white paper:

>>It uses the mechanism of a protocol token to create a proof-of-stake blockchain to enable enforcement of market activity amongst participants.

It's no crime to be ignorant of a subject. It's intellectually dishonest to criticize projects while in such a state.