66-Ether: The Triple-Point Asset, with Ryan Sean Adams

Ether is a super-asset in a super-position, fitting into the role of three categories at once.

David Hoffman
2 min readJul 25, 2019

There are 3 asset superclasses, as defined by Robert Greer in his 1997 paper “What is an Asset Class, Anyway?”. Ether fills nicely into all 3 asset superclasses, and is the only asset to ever do this.

Ryan Sean Adams comes to POV to walk through each category, and talk about how Ether’s value proposition fits each one.

Check out Placeholder VC’s article on the subject: Value Capture & Quantification: Cryptocapital vs Cryptocommodities

iTunes Link

Spotify Link

LibSyn Link

Topics of Conversation

  • Ether as a Capital Asset, producing income for holders
  • Ether as a consumable asset, needed for all financial transactions
  • Ether as a SoV asset, a required asset for capital in Open-Finance
  • The internal/external economy hybrid of Ethereum
  • Ethereum’s internal economy producing more scarcity than a hard cap.
  • Does a pure money (BTC) out-compete an asset that strives to be multiple things (ETH).
  • Missed Our Other Episodes?

64-Decred: Splitting the Difference Between Bitcoin and Ethereum, with Luke Powell

58-The Frontier of Dai, with Mariano Conti

62-Truffle: Making Ethereum Sweet, with Tim Coulter

63-Ethereum vs Bitcoin, With Matt Odell

You can find us @POVCryptopod on Twitter

Christian @ck_Snarks

David Hoffman on Twitter and Medium @trustlessstate

--

--

David Hoffman

Chief of Operations @realtplatform. The Ethereum side of @POVCryptopod. Bringing Ethereum to the world through writing and speaking. Read my medium👇🏼