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First "TON", then "GRAM". Which of these tickers is intended for internal use, and which one will become the new world crypto-currency star of the Telegram payment and communication platform now, you can understand only by carefully reading the White Paper carried out by the ICO. However, this note is not devoted to this. Do not you think that the process of formation of new altcoyins has somewhat changed? And so much so that the ideological, fundamental salt of them begins to be lost.

How did bitkoyn appear? Yes, in general, from an empty place. "Clearly thinking inside the network" saw that it was technologically possible to implement a software mechanism that would protect the alleged virtual monetary units from forgery and guarantee transactions. And rushed. There is an assumption that the basic properties of crypto-currencies became clear long before the appearance of the crypto-currency itself. Well, they are not visible from the bottom.

The idea was rife with the idea: millions of merchants were picked up by the idea, they started paying off the bills on international contracts; they were joined by speculators who saw that some virtual "junk" of real money was being dumped, and then they did not have time to look back, as the capitalization of the "cue ball" is already worth a billion US dollars.

"Clearly thinking" thought clearly: in order to achieve serious differences in properties and to be interesting for millions, it is necessary that the formed crypto currency is not initially integrated into the existing financial architecture. Simply put, bitkoyn should be independent of anybody in all aspects of its existence. Wow a whiff? But at the same time it is technologically absolutely feasible. It is only necessary to distribute each such aspect between a large number of performers-users-participants. Then it turns out that the currency is issued / served by everyone in general and nobody in particular. That's what the distribution of a crypto-currency network is in fact. This is the guarantee of the independence of virtual money!

And what about the TON (or GRAM)? For starters, they arise on no one in an empty place, but with the most that neither is the most powerful support of hundreds of millions of potential users. But the most important thing is that these users are already united by an existing messenger, on the basis of which it is planned to develop and issue crypto currency. Something is somehow centralized.

The release of this "crypt" is carried out in accordance with the protocol Proof-of-Steak, which gives advantages to those miners who have more coins. Thus, it is possible to achieve greater security for the entire network as a whole, since the owner of large assets in coins of this network is less interested in harming this network.

However, earning GRAM-a Mining will not yield a gram. According to Pavel Durov himself (in an official interview) "... The system will be based on the technology of so-called" light wallets "and will not require large computing power and a long waiting time for transactions." As a result, mining should get rid of itself ...

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Wait a minute, and who will end up confirming the transaction? In terms of what equipment? To master the crypto currency of the Telegram platform (creating new blocks) ASIC-miners are used:

    ANTMINER L3 + 504MH / S;
    ANTMINER S9 14TH / S;
    EBIT MINER E9 PLUS 9T.

The commercial "lack of demand" for mining means that either you are already quite familiar equipment somehow magically manage to operate millions of times more efficiently. Either the transaction confirmation process is a million times easier. White Paper declares just the second.

Conclusions:

What to say - one of two, or even both at once:

    Calculated and declared indicators on the capacity of the Telegram network may well not be confirmed in practice (all the same, promises to improve all at once a minimum of 1,000,000 times ... Here, without testing for a "life-size model" is indispensable).
    If mining really ceases to be commercially significant, the GRAM (or TON) crypto currency risks becoming the first oligarchic virtual coin ticker. Only the organizers of the platform will get it, since only they will have a financial interest in it. From them and everything will depend. So the first private money will appear in the world.

That's evolution! Through liberation to an even greater authoritarianism ...