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ETH Is NOT Ultrasound Money with Jon Charbonneau

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What's the Difference Between Transaction Fees and Stock Based Compensation?

The core of my argument is actually something like ETH is significantly more profitable than I think most people have been saying it is by that traditional framework. In this case, I am the network because I own all the tokens and I have all of them staked. So effectively, my profitability as that operator at the end of the year is very simple. It's not tokens versus if I played out that same year, made a million dollars and issued a bunch of tokens. The only difference is from the beginning of the year to the end ofthe year is that there are more tokens in the second scenario but the market cap of the asset should effectively be the same.

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