Jackson: BTRST cash price does not affect Braintrust network operations
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Adam Jackson, co-founder of Braintrust, explains to Nathan Latka why crypto token price volatility does not impact the platform's one-token-one-vote governance model.
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“The cash value of the brain trust token is actually not relevant to the network, right? It's one token, one vote, the more tokens you have, the more influence you have over the network. So whether that token's worth 10 cents or a dollar is not actually that relevant to the operation of the network.”
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