Background

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Seasonal Tokens design is based on key observations about the way Bitcoin evolved. Therefore we need some understanding of Bitcoin to fully appreciate the design principles behind Seasonal Tokens. Check out this Bitcoin summary of ideas that influenced Seasonal Tokens design.

Basically, the mean feature borrowed from Bitcoin's design is the use of proof of work. In Bitcoin PoW is used in the consensus mechanism for keeping the distributed database. But it goes beyond that, in fact PoW solves many problems at once as described in the Bitcoin page.

Proof of Work mining is necessary for Seasonal Tokens design, because it gives a real cost of production for the tokens (together with ETH minting fees). This is what anchors the token's prices to the real economy, and it is the handle that allows the relative token's prices to oscillate around each other.