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mining creates value depth creates utility, duh private investors in ftx, exchanged cash for equity. that's meatspace liquidity mining man

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Jun 24, 2020

6) Well, from a usability standpoint, I think that the best answer is A > B > D > C. Why? Really, liquidity mining is stupid. It's similar to transmining, creating effectively negative fees to create the impression of activity. People should use a product if it's useful!

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True, but the scale here matters. FTX has $1b/day and pays about $750kmonth for liquidity; Balancer has roughly no trade volume and is paying $12m/month for it.

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Liquidity mining/ defi ==> 2017 scam vaporizer icos

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Do you mean FTX payments to market makers?

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In particular: if payments are in line with volume and use, they help get more liquidity. If payments are way greater, they create unused liquidity aimed at the incentives rather than trading.

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ok, so you mean decentralized liquidity mining is inefficient i agree in the cases of comp and bal but i also think it's worth recognizing how fundamentally different and more difficult it is doing these things in a decentralized way