[joshspankit]

Your definition of a business might be a “an organization that produces a product”, but that is not the legal definition. A business can even legally be a bundle of paperwork that owns someone’s nice car.

Business (noun) is not a productive asset.

[bradleybuda]

In the rare case that a business actually produces nothing, in bad faith, we call that a scam, and fraud, and people go to jail. The same standard does not exist for "tokens".

[joshspankit]

Sorry, this perspective is wrong on both counts:

1) There are literally millions of empty and bad-faith businesses that you never hear about because they successfully fly under the radar

2) People definitely (though, to your point: not the general public yet) call out some tokens as being scams. It’s much more of a “wild west” (aka: lots of dirty business going on that no one knows how to identify much less stop), but people in the space can pretty easily tell if a token has integrity or not. Look at Beeple, for example. I think most people who read the story would agree he’s not scamming.

[rsynnott]

No-one would buy shares in such a thing, tho. Unless they lied about what it was doing, but, well, ask Elizabeth Holmes how well that's going.

[drcongo]

Has Uber made a profit yet?