good question, Hive account@edje, I trust one article can't really explain the whole idea. Musicoin is an altcoin, but quite different from others as it's not a technical advancement or a kind of overhauling to existing one. Instead, it's based on solving an industry problem, the same time get backed by the economic behaviour in real world, which is music playback in this context.

If so, the currency underlying the system can be more stable than any other speculation-oriented altcoins. As long as we put music playback attaching to a coin, the price of the coin will be not too much fluctuated too much, nor being seen as a ponzi scam. In theory, the economy of Musicoin is quite related to the scale of music consumption, not the market cap like others. Along this, eventually the services building upon the platform, will help generate more demands to use the currency instead of just trading it every day for profit. We would see some volatility at the beginning, but more probably stabilizing itself soon.