People keep doing the math wrong... Day 0: buy 1 DIEM for $1k Day 1: use $1 of inference Day 2: sell 1 DIEM for $1k It paid for itself on day 1. Caveat is the risk on resale... price may be higher or lower, but assuming neither growth nor decay, it's instantly profitable to use. And anyone since launch that's been using DIEM has actually been getting *paid* to consume inference. Great deal for holders. Liability to Venice. We control the liability by limiting supply of DIEM, thus it is a known and limited expense of the business. The whole thing was created for agents, for they can more easily understand and appreciate zero-marginal cost inference on small time scales.(Erik Voorhees)