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"content": "<br />A game changer in the venture capital space. So, what does Equi look to solve, basically it unifies venture capital market with blockchain technology. Venture capital funds are usually done by banks and what venture means is basically a risky journey and a startup business where they need money so they go to a venture capital firm and if the venture capital firm likes it they will look to raise money for the company. Their vision is to invest in visionary ventures with the potential to disrupt markets often reaps the remarkable rewards as they emerge into tomorrow’s market leaders such rewards are often restricted to an elite that are privileged with accessibility. The venture capital funds usually they include banks and private companies like that so Equi is breaking down the barriers of accessibility and delivering the investment portal of the future. With the Equi tokens you can either do one of three things. 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You get more rewards, also the remaining 25% of the profits goes to the equi investment team as a performance reward. Basically, their lead founder says this is a once in a generation opportunity it basically disrupts the old establishment workings of the venture capital and how that has been done. Equi is going to be a disruptor in how that is done and it is going to offer these opportunities to regular, average of investors and basically everyone who has access to the internet. They have good access to the investment market and to good opportunities. Like you’re investing in an ICO its ground-level movement but oftentimes these companies in the blockchain space. They don't really need to do an ICO they're just going to solve a real-world problem and they don't need to tokenize and make profit off their cryptocurrency. So, they're just going to create the company and charge people to use their platform. Equi will go to venture capital funds to raise millions and millions of dollars to develop and bring the product to market. So Equi is going to be hosting these companies and allowing people to invest in them through the Equi platform.<br /><br />Investors get the token value increase that’s one of the things they get. By investing the Equi tokens, you're giving them equi tokens but as the project increases, make profit the Equi token will also gain value. Also, they're investing in the projects and they're getting returns from these projects should they be profitable, they're getting loyalty rewards and the holders are only getting token value increase and equity token loyalty reward. They've been featured on Reuters, CoinTelegraph, Forbes which are huge. Their lead founder manages a lot of money starting out with paintball then moving out to his working for a private equity firm. 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"content": "\nA game changer in the venture capital space. So, what does Equi look to solve, basically it unifies venture capital market with blockchain technology. Venture capital funds are usually done by banks and what venture means is basically a risky journey and a startup business where they need money so they go to a venture capital firm and if the venture capital firm likes it they will look to raise money for the company. Their vision is to invest in visionary ventures with the potential to disrupt markets often reaps the remarkable rewards as they emerge into tomorrow’s market leaders such rewards are often restricted to an elite that are privileged with accessibility. The venture capital funds usually they include banks and private companies like that so Equi is breaking down the barriers of accessibility and delivering the investment portal of the future. With the Equi tokens you can either do one of three things. You can be an investor who would also invest in the venture capital, the companies that come to them and the companies that they go and seek that are looking for money. You can be a just a simply a holder of the token in the Equi platform. You wouldn’t be invested in anything, you would simply hold those equi tokens so you can take them out whenever you want to. Keep in mind that the investors once they’re invested they won't be able to take out their equi tokens if you were a holder or a trader. So, traders simply remove their tokens from the equi platform to a third-party exchange and are looking to simply trade the tokens on an exchange.\n\nThe projects aren’t going to be random projects. They're going to make sure that these are legitimate projects and that they have passed the tests. Seventy five percent of all profits are returned to investors and holders so it is beneficial if you are either an investor or holder. You get more rewards, also the remaining 25% of the profits goes to the equi investment team as a performance reward. Basically, their lead founder says this is a once in a generation opportunity it basically disrupts the old establishment workings of the venture capital and how that has been done. Equi is going to be a disruptor in how that is done and it is going to offer these opportunities to regular, average of investors and basically everyone who has access to the internet. They have good access to the investment market and to good opportunities. Like you’re investing in an ICO its ground-level movement but oftentimes these companies in the blockchain space. They don't really need to do an ICO they're just going to solve a real-world problem and they don't need to tokenize and make profit off their cryptocurrency. So, they're just going to create the company and charge people to use their platform. Equi will go to venture capital funds to raise millions and millions of dollars to develop and bring the product to market. So Equi is going to be hosting these companies and allowing people to invest in them through the Equi platform.\n\nInvestors get the token value increase that’s one of the things they get. By investing the Equi tokens, you're giving them equi tokens but as the project increases, make profit the Equi token will also gain value. Also, they're investing in the projects and they're getting returns from these projects should they be profitable, they're getting loyalty rewards and the holders are only getting token value increase and equity token loyalty reward. They've been featured on Reuters, CoinTelegraph, Forbes which are huge. Their lead founder manages a lot of money starting out with paintball then moving out to his working for a private equity firm. Then making over 400 million by acquiring old economy businesses than leaving that and starting his own investment company and has management of approaching 3 billion dollars. Their co-founder Baroness Mone is an adviser to the UK government for start-up businesses. So, that's pretty large title as she has been given. She also is an advocate for the crypto community space. Together these two founders are as a creative powerhouse team and it's definitely an all-star team.\n\nICO starts March 15th, it closes on 12th of April and their distribution will be on 17th of April. Their future plans include a platform beta which released in quarter two of this year. For testing platform launch will be in quarter two as well and investment projects will be added to the platform. Quarter 3 of 2018 a native platform application for Android and IOS, potential integration with crypto exchanges. 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"content": "<br />Immvrse is a virtual reality platform that contributors can post material and creators can put their videos in virtual reality format, up on the platform. It's going to be decentralized, you're going to get rewarded for your content creation and it will also provide an opportunity for clients to find content creators as well. It's a very interesting concept, futuristic. We have the blockchain, virtual reality, content creation all wrapped into one. The competition is falls into two categories. It falls into the decentralized media platforms such as dtube, another type of video blogging websites and platforms. The difference with Immvrse, they're going to be doing the videos and the content in VR, augmented reality, mixed reality. So, they’re not exactly the same as what's available at the moment and mentioning dtube and similar websites because that's as close as we can get to the real competitors at the moment. 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So, it will be very interesting to see how it stacks up against the competition eventually when they realize that virtual reality is going to be a very popular media platform.<br /><br /><br />When we talk about the problems that they want to solve, first off there’s not enough content creators on any one platform. Facebook and YouTube both support virtual reality or 360-degree content but there's not enough content creators on any one platform making it possible for this to take off. Another problem is current media sharing platforms are entirely dominated by 180/2D video content. The most popular ones of course YouTube and even dtube on decentralized network are completely dominated by 2d video. Another issue only a few top tier influencers are paid well enough. On YouTube, there's been a lot of complaints over the last few months, even years about people not getting rewarded enough for their content creation. Even if they are a part of the monetization where AdWords are running on their channel. They don't get paid enough to make it even worthwhile. So, only the real top tier influencers or video creators get the just rewards and that’s not fair. Another issue is the equipment to film VR is expensive and it’s also hard to obtain as well. It’s not like you can walk into your local camera shop and buy it. It's quite special. There’s also a lack of copyright protection with current 360-degree media and that needs to be addressed. Also, Immvrse reckon that growth of virtual reality in 360-degree content requires dedicated VR platforms for it to grow and succeed because it’s still in competition with 2d. It's more likely people are going to watch and still retain watch the 2d content rather than watching the 3d. So, if it's going to grow, if it’s going to succeed it needs a dedicated platform to do so. And current platforms are centralized that brings problems, lack of transparency, trust, security, privacy etcetera. Everything that centralization is not conducive towards, any centralized platform will be guilty of that. So, having a decentralized platform will give you added security, an ability to interact on blockchain ecosystem. That's fair transparent and obviously on the immutable ledger you can see all the transactions have been performed accordingly. Decentralized platform for any media content is certainly the way forward not least of all in terms of, decentralized platforms cannot be censored. There's a censorship resistant and another thing as well the owners of the platform don't decide what content producers get to upload on them because it’s decentralized anybody and that has been verified can go on and put their content on it. So, it's open to all and it’s certainly more fair and free.<br /><br /><br />Virtual reality the market for it, it's already quite large but it's going to grow exponentially over the next few years. As the technology improves, as more people start to realize and use it, as more and more content is created the growth of the market is going to be phenomenal. Mark Zuckerberg has invested two billion into virtual reality startup in 2014. People can see the real-world use cases for virtual reality over and above just the entertainment value overall but entertainment will probably be the driving force behind the adoption of it. So, entertainment will drive it but it has so many other applications, we're talking about a multi multi-billion-dollar market here and this is an interesting attempt to get a bit of the market that hasn't really been realized yet. The white paper does list some of the potential uses for virtual reality including health care. They mentioned therapy is one of the uses for it. You could see how that would be applicable because if you’re scared of public speaking, flying or heights you can actually use the virtual reality to give people the sensation of being in a situation that they're not comfortable about. Another use for it would be tourism as well. Instead of look at booking.com and thinking all that hotel looks nice. You could put on your virtual reality headset, go to one of the websites and actually walk through the hotel yourself using virtual reality.<br /><br />Website: <a href=\"https://immvr.se\" target=\"_blank\">https://immvr.se</a><br /><br />Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/immvrseuk\" target=\"_blank\">https://twitter.com/immvrseuk</a><br /><br />Facebook: <a href=\"https://facebook.com/immvrse\" target=\"_blank\">https://facebook.com/immvrse</a><br /><br />Telegram: <a href=\"https://t.me/immvrse\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.me/immvrse</a><br /><br />Whitepaper: <a href=\"https://immvr.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Whitepaper-ImmVRse-Lite.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://immvr.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Whitepaper-ImmVRse-Lite.pdf</a><br /><br />Bitcointalk ANN: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2816197\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2816197</a><br /><br />Authored by: donniedarko<br />Bitcointalk url: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051</a>",
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"content": "Mobilebridge momentum is a marketing and loyalty ICO that in tend to use smart marketing to target customers correctly and properly and also combine it with a cryptocurrency so a company can actually issue their own tokens as loyalty points to build their own marketing programs and encourage customers to come back. So, that's what it’s all about, smart marketing it looks very exciting. They're partnered with some big players; their customers include Burger King and some notable others already. The problems they want to solve, first one is traditional marketing is often disliked by customers. They are often badly timed, lack in personalization and result in spam. That is the truth because we get emails telling us there's money off, we get SMS messages saying the special offer and they're not welcome. They get sent to us for things that we may not be interested. The whole point of momentum smart marketing. It’s actually target people at the correct time, for example about lunchtime if you’re in the area of Burger King for example and you’re hungry and they know that you go to Burger King or you have been in the past. Then they will send you some offer or some customer rewards should you choose to go and eat in Burger King at that particular time. So, that’s what I mean about smart marketing and that will hopefully take over from the traditional hard sale marketing at the moment. So, it will take into account your personal preferences, your location and several other factors that it needs to make an informed decision about what to reward you.<br /><br /><br />Also, loyalty programs repeatedly fail as consumers like a sense of value and ownership and points off for no real value offer, often expire and are wasted. That's definitely the truth, for example I show up at a local supermarket here in Berlin and I’m part of their loyalty program but I have no idea how many loyal points have got, how I can use them, what I can spend them on. It's really a ridiculous way of doing business and rewarding customers. There isn’t any interaction, I don't get any information about how many loyalties points I've got. It might arrive once every few weeks telling me and it's usually ignored and thrown in to the bin. So, by using cryptocurrency, having an app and be able to monitor the number of tokens or rewards that you get is essential to sort of keeping interests, maintaining interest in it and again having a sense of value and ownership. The other point that sort of compounds the lack of sense of value and ownership is that the money wasted in North America alone is hundred billion dollars in a year. And of course, that wasted potential can be used to transform customers and a happy and active brand ambassador. I agree with that because if you get rewards even if you get little something for shopping at a certain place or going a certain place and spreading the word about the venue or telling people about it. If you get rewarded it gives you that sense of being part of it and that drives your interest, your brand loyalty as well. So, that's definitely something the momentum are going to look at implementing. It's exciting because traditional ways of marketing are outdated now and we need a fresh approach.<br /><br /><br />The solution according to momentum is to implement a platform for marketing and loyalty on the blockchain. They’ve got some smart ideas and technology behind it and how they're going to go about it quite innovative. They want to have this mobile marketing automation solution. They're basically target users based on different data including location and user attributes for example and also your previous behaviour. It'll be smart marketing so you won’t get overloaded with spam. It's not a hard sell, you will be targeted when the AI thinks that you should be targeted. You will also get rewarded as a consumer. They're going to reward you for your time and your activity as well. There will be a user manage data drives for a better user experience. So, it will optimize your journey, your offers and that will be based on the data that they collect provided by the consumers themselves. Your loyalty rewards will be portable so you'll be able to swap them over for other reward programs from other companies which I think maybe the game changer here because at the moment it's really not possible to swap loyalty points in the real world. Also, they will understand and optimize the return of investment. Detailed analytics will provide insight in user behaviour and effectiveness of the marketing spend as well. There will be of course data transparent in security because it's on the blockchain.<br /><br /><br />Referring to the white paper mobile marketing is a massive multi-billion-dollar market place and it's anticipated to grow almost 30 percent year-on-year and triple in size. Can you believe more than 99 billion U.S. dollars by 2021? The addressable market for this particular project for mobilebridge momentum is approximately nine billion dollars. So, massive potential and more people are using mobiles and internet it’s getting better. It's the natural way it's moving at the moment over to mobile marketing. Coupons, card schemes all in the past and will be soon. Again, I go back to my example of the supermarket I shop at and they use an antiquated card scheme you get a number or you can tell them your phone number at the check-in desk and the rewards your points every time you spend money. That's an antiquated method of loyalty program that will be outdated and the mobile programs starting to become ubiquitous but they don't offer the same sort of rewards and user interaction as a tokenized system on the blockchain. And that's why I believe these marketing and loyalty programs on the blockchain are quite important. The target markets for mobilebridge momentum are immediately the retail market and also quick service restaurants. I assume that to be fast food restaurants as they both typically have a great mobile community with users looking to connect online and offline. Then they're going to move into travel, bank, insurance and also automotive.<br /><br />Website: <a href=\"https://www.momentumtoken.io\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.momentumtoken.io</a><br /><br />Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MomentumToken\" target=\"_blank\">https://twitter.com/MomentumToken</a><br /><br />Telegram: <a href=\"https://t.me/MomentumToken\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.me/MomentumToken</a><br /><br />Whitepaper: <a href=\"https://www.momentumtoken.io/files/MobileBridge_Momentum_Token_Sale_Whitepaper_-_FINAL_v1.0_1503018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.momentumtoken.io/files/MobileBridge_Momentum_Token_Sale_Whitepaper_-_FINAL_v1.0_1503018.pdf</a><br /><br /><br />Bitcointalk ANN: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2943654\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2943654</a><br /><br />Authored by: donniedarko<br />Bitcointalk url: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051</a>",
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"content": "Mobilebridge momentum is a marketing and loyalty ICO that in tend to use smart marketing to target customers correctly and properly and also combine it with a cryptocurrency so a company can actually issue their own tokens as loyalty points to build their own marketing programs and encourage customers to come back. So, that's what it’s all about, smart marketing it looks very exciting. They're partnered with some big players; their customers include Burger King and some notable others already. The problems they want to solve, first one is traditional marketing is often disliked by customers. They are often badly timed, lack in personalization and result in spam. That is the truth because we get emails telling us there's money off, we get SMS messages saying the special offer and they're not welcome. They get sent to us for things that we may not be interested. The whole point of momentum smart marketing. It’s actually target people at the correct time, for example about lunchtime if you’re in the area of Burger King for example and you’re hungry and they know that you go to Burger King or you have been in the past. Then they will send you some offer or some customer rewards should you choose to go and eat in Burger King at that particular time. So, that’s what I mean about smart marketing and that will hopefully take over from the traditional hard sale marketing at the moment. So, it will take into account your personal preferences, your location and several other factors that it needs to make an informed decision about what to reward you.\n\n\nAlso, loyalty programs repeatedly fail as consumers like a sense of value and ownership and points off for no real value offer, often expire and are wasted. That's definitely the truth, for example I show up at a local supermarket here in Berlin and I’m part of their loyalty program but I have no idea how many loyal points have got, how I can use them, what I can spend them on. It's really a ridiculous way of doing business and rewarding customers. There isn’t any interaction, I don't get any information about how many loyalties points I've got. It might arrive once every few weeks telling me and it's usually ignored and thrown in to the bin. So, by using cryptocurrency, having an app and be able to monitor the number of tokens or rewards that you get is essential to sort of keeping interests, maintaining interest in it and again having a sense of value and ownership. The other point that sort of compounds the lack of sense of value and ownership is that the money wasted in North America alone is hundred billion dollars in a year. And of course, that wasted potential can be used to transform customers and a happy and active brand ambassador. I agree with that because if you get rewards even if you get little something for shopping at a certain place or going a certain place and spreading the word about the venue or telling people about it. If you get rewarded it gives you that sense of being part of it and that drives your interest, your brand loyalty as well. So, that's definitely something the momentum are going to look at implementing. It's exciting because traditional ways of marketing are outdated now and we need a fresh approach.\n\n\nThe solution according to momentum is to implement a platform for marketing and loyalty on the blockchain. They’ve got some smart ideas and technology behind it and how they're going to go about it quite innovative. They want to have this mobile marketing automation solution. They're basically target users based on different data including location and user attributes for example and also your previous behaviour. It'll be smart marketing so you won’t get overloaded with spam. It's not a hard sell, you will be targeted when the AI thinks that you should be targeted. You will also get rewarded as a consumer. They're going to reward you for your time and your activity as well. There will be a user manage data drives for a better user experience. So, it will optimize your journey, your offers and that will be based on the data that they collect provided by the consumers themselves. Your loyalty rewards will be portable so you'll be able to swap them over for other reward programs from other companies which I think maybe the game changer here because at the moment it's really not possible to swap loyalty points in the real world. Also, they will understand and optimize the return of investment. Detailed analytics will provide insight in user behaviour and effectiveness of the marketing spend as well. There will be of course data transparent in security because it's on the blockchain.\n\n\nReferring to the white paper mobile marketing is a massive multi-billion-dollar market place and it's anticipated to grow almost 30 percent year-on-year and triple in size. Can you believe more than 99 billion U.S. dollars by 2021? The addressable market for this particular project for mobilebridge momentum is approximately nine billion dollars. So, massive potential and more people are using mobiles and internet it’s getting better. It's the natural way it's moving at the moment over to mobile marketing. Coupons, card schemes all in the past and will be soon. Again, I go back to my example of the supermarket I shop at and they use an antiquated card scheme you get a number or you can tell them your phone number at the check-in desk and the rewards your points every time you spend money. 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Then they're going to move into travel, bank, insurance and also automotive.\n\nWebsite: https://www.momentumtoken.io\n\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/MomentumToken\n\nTelegram: https://t.me/MomentumToken\n\nWhitepaper: https://www.momentumtoken.io/files/MobileBridge_Momentum_Token_Sale_Whitepaper_-_FINAL_v1.0_1503018.pdf\n\n\nBitcointalk ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2943654\n\nAuthored by: donniedarko\nBitcointalk url: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051",
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"content": "<br />Basically, what this project is in a nutshell, it's a data project, it monetizes data from millions of small enterprises. So, small enterprises and medium-sized enterprises they can able to sell their data into a data marketplace and then developers can buy those data and make applications off of it. Then developers can sell those applications back to those small businesses or medium-sized businesses to use in their business and they will receive tokens. So, it's just transactions after transactions and this is basically a marketplace for data and everything will be exchanged with data. The competition for this is datum and if you guys don't know what datum means, it's another data project but datum specializes with personal data so individual persons can sell their own data out in that marketplace but in this case the data from businesses and small and medium-sized businesses because the large businesses practically they own all the data and it kind of pushes the small medium-sized businesses out of the loop. That’s why it's so hard for those guys to grow and that's why so many small businesses don't make it up there. So, there hasn't been a project like this yet so this is kind of the first one in which small businesses and medium-sized businesses can actually use their data and sell it out there because the problem is there's a lot of small businesses out there or just businesses in general with unused data.<br /><br />An example would be how repux could help the Smithsonian monetize their dusty data. The Smithsonian is a popular museum in which it has a large amount of database. That is unused and they can profit off that by putting it in this marketplace. So, that database is full of images, text and other records. Basically, of every customer artefact they have and that can actually be useful to create applications. I don't know what it’s going to be used for in their case but in a sense why not just make profit off that data when you have all that information stored somewhere, make profit off it. That's the digital world we live in today, everything is traded on data and the same thing with any business. So, for me. I'm considered a small business and the analytics I get from the customers going through and out my website I can able to sell that data in this marketplace and receive revenue off of it. So, developers can also build platforms or build applications to do whatever and they can sell it back to whatever business or any enterprise and they’ll receive profit off it also. Another problem with the data today is trust and reputations because big businesses are able to manipulate the reputation of each and every single other reviews and businesses. So, example when a data gets a rating, big businesses can manipulate it and they can sell it for a larger amount of price and there's a middleman in between that kind of regulates what data is being sold in knots. In that sense, your data is not in control, the small businesses their data is not in control and it’s hard for them to get in a wider market place because big businesses practically on all the data like I’ve said. With this since it is in a blockchain, it's very immutable, secure and it has a rating feature in which small businesses can be rated on their data and they can build their reputation through there.<br /><br />Also, small businesses can able to choose who they want to sell to or who to not sell to because also the problem is that big businesses can practically take every single one's data and they can sell it to whoever they want. Even competitors to they can just take away data from another small business, just build off that and just completely destroy the other business but in this marketplace small businesses can choose to sell their data to so that they don't accidentally sell their data to a competitor. Just by putting it in the blockchain data will become transparent and it can actually become reliable. The big thing that this will do is really drive the innovation of artificial intelligence and machine learning because it could definitely supply data to those types of innovation and it will just increase their growth. Artificial intelligence and machine learning they all learn from data so why not just small businesses contribute to this and get paid in return. Another example of Repux usage could be a service that allows individuals or entities to sell social media usage data in exchange for accessing a website. In a sense, not a lot of people know this but Facebook and Instagram each individual person has analytics to their own. Social media to their own accounts and they can actually sell that data to get tokens or accessing a website in general. The data could be built up to develop more applications. Going back to like I said with the big businesses manipulating ratings and data is that Oracle is the system that is used in repux.<br /><br />So, in this case every transaction or unusually high suspicious ratings will need to pass Oracle. In order to rating to be applied to the buyers and sellers repux address. It's kind of a smart contract and it's it regulates what goes in and out of the market. So, for that if a seller has a high rating then the seller is more reliable as well as that buyer. If the buyer can actually buy that data and go through with the transaction. Advertising and online content will be important also because advertising agencies they buy data all the time to make ads to target the demographic of people, to target their audience, their niche wherever they want to target their ads. They collect data in order to do that. Ecommerce and international trade as well will be a big usage. With any e-commerce store that's essentially the backbone of business is the buying and selling of products. You want to know where your customer is at, you want to know who your buyers, who your audience is at and what better way is it to gather data so you can know more about those.<br /><br />Website: <a href=\"https://repux.io/\" target=\"_blank\">https://repux.io/</a><br /><br />Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/repu_x\" target=\"_blank\">https://twitter.com/repu_x</a><br /><br />Facebook: <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Repux-415260768888793/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/Repux-415260768888793/</a><br /><br />Telegram: <a href=\"https://t.me/repuxicoEN\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.me/repuxicoEN</a><br /><br />Whitepaper: <a href=\"https://repux.io/white-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://repux.io/white-paper.html</a><br /><br />Bitcointalk ANN:<a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2613666\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2613666</a><br /><br />Authored by: donniedarko<br />Bitcointalk url: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051</a>",
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"content": "\nBasically, what this project is in a nutshell, it's a data project, it monetizes data from millions of small enterprises. So, small enterprises and medium-sized enterprises they can able to sell their data into a data marketplace and then developers can buy those data and make applications off of it. Then developers can sell those applications back to those small businesses or medium-sized businesses to use in their business and they will receive tokens. So, it's just transactions after transactions and this is basically a marketplace for data and everything will be exchanged with data. The competition for this is datum and if you guys don't know what datum means, it's another data project but datum specializes with personal data so individual persons can sell their own data out in that marketplace but in this case the data from businesses and small and medium-sized businesses because the large businesses practically they own all the data and it kind of pushes the small medium-sized businesses out of the loop. That’s why it's so hard for those guys to grow and that's why so many small businesses don't make it up there. So, there hasn't been a project like this yet so this is kind of the first one in which small businesses and medium-sized businesses can actually use their data and sell it out there because the problem is there's a lot of small businesses out there or just businesses in general with unused data.\n\nAn example would be how repux could help the Smithsonian monetize their dusty data. The Smithsonian is a popular museum in which it has a large amount of database. That is unused and they can profit off that by putting it in this marketplace. So, that database is full of images, text and other records. Basically, of every customer artefact they have and that can actually be useful to create applications. I don't know what it’s going to be used for in their case but in a sense why not just make profit off that data when you have all that information stored somewhere, make profit off it. That's the digital world we live in today, everything is traded on data and the same thing with any business. So, for me. I'm considered a small business and the analytics I get from the customers going through and out my website I can able to sell that data in this marketplace and receive revenue off of it. So, developers can also build platforms or build applications to do whatever and they can sell it back to whatever business or any enterprise and they’ll receive profit off it also. Another problem with the data today is trust and reputations because big businesses are able to manipulate the reputation of each and every single other reviews and businesses. So, example when a data gets a rating, big businesses can manipulate it and they can sell it for a larger amount of price and there's a middleman in between that kind of regulates what data is being sold in knots. In that sense, your data is not in control, the small businesses their data is not in control and it’s hard for them to get in a wider market place because big businesses practically on all the data like I’ve said. With this since it is in a blockchain, it's very immutable, secure and it has a rating feature in which small businesses can be rated on their data and they can build their reputation through there.\n\nAlso, small businesses can able to choose who they want to sell to or who to not sell to because also the problem is that big businesses can practically take every single one's data and they can sell it to whoever they want. Even competitors to they can just take away data from another small business, just build off that and just completely destroy the other business but in this marketplace small businesses can choose to sell their data to so that they don't accidentally sell their data to a competitor. Just by putting it in the blockchain data will become transparent and it can actually become reliable. The big thing that this will do is really drive the innovation of artificial intelligence and machine learning because it could definitely supply data to those types of innovation and it will just increase their growth. Artificial intelligence and machine learning they all learn from data so why not just small businesses contribute to this and get paid in return. Another example of Repux usage could be a service that allows individuals or entities to sell social media usage data in exchange for accessing a website. In a sense, not a lot of people know this but Facebook and Instagram each individual person has analytics to their own. Social media to their own accounts and they can actually sell that data to get tokens or accessing a website in general. The data could be built up to develop more applications. Going back to like I said with the big businesses manipulating ratings and data is that Oracle is the system that is used in repux.\n\nSo, in this case every transaction or unusually high suspicious ratings will need to pass Oracle. In order to rating to be applied to the buyers and sellers repux address. It's kind of a smart contract and it's it regulates what goes in and out of the market. So, for that if a seller has a high rating then the seller is more reliable as well as that buyer. If the buyer can actually buy that data and go through with the transaction. Advertising and online content will be important also because advertising agencies they buy data all the time to make ads to target the demographic of people, to target their audience, their niche wherever they want to target their ads. They collect data in order to do that. Ecommerce and international trade as well will be a big usage. 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"content": "Coinmetro aims to put together attributes like coinbase, basically what they’re trying to do is they're trying to put all the things together in one platform where you don't have to go to four or five different sites to deposit your FIAT and then transfer your FIAT to an exchange to buy coins, cryptocurrencies and after that you have to transfer it back to your account. There's so much of a hassle and many people don't even have access to coinbase and that's just one of the problems that they're going to solve. There are not many FIAT exchanges out there because there's lots of regulations and it's a real hassle to get licensed for that. What coinmetro is going to be doing is they’re going to aim to get that license because there's going to be lots of regulations coming in. 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Coinmetro will already scan your ICO, make sure you’re legitimate and this way no one's going to get scammed and lose their ethereum or bitcoin. Right now, there are a lot of bad exchanges out there with poor customer support, it takes literally forever to get in contact with them just in case something goes wrong. There're not a lot of employees at exchanges so what coinmetro is going to be aiming to do is become the Best of Breed this aspect. Their exchange is going to be comparable to Binance or Huobi, these higher-end exchanges which are very fast, very secure and they’re simply very low transaction fees. Some exchanges have crazy amounts of spread between the bid and ask price and this just makes them very inefficient. Maybe because there's no volume there or just not be large enough but coinmetro is going to solve all those problems by creating a fast and scalable exchange with low transaction fees and they’re also going to be offering things like atomic swap between crypto currencies. So, let's say you want to transfer your vert coin for litecoin, you won't have to sell your coin for a Bitcoin and then buy the litecoin. You can simply just use what’s called atomic swap and transfer your vert coin to litecoin. That's just one example, more coins going to adopting this technology in future. For the trading platform, they're going to make it user friendly and they're also going to add like advanced charts and tools for professional traders.<br />Right now, if you look at a bittrex or something like that they don't have many advanced options. Everyone uses tradingview if I'm not mistaken so if they can integrate this into their platform, everyone will come to them. And I'm sure coinmetro will add other features to their platform other than technical analysis. Along with that currently on exchanges like binance, bittrex when you try to do a complex order type, let’s say sell stop order, buy stop order or use a stop loss simply even that's hard, very complicated to do that. They're going to solve that by making it very easy for you to make advanced order types as well.<br /><br />Tokenized asset management, it's based on a successful managed account model that they created at FXPIG. They're going to use what they've learned from FXPIG and integrate it into the crypto world. They really have the experience in FXPIG and they've been doing it for many years so they'll just translate that over to crypto and I’m sure they'll do well. TAM is similar to personal money management account and basically in that you can pool funds together from multiple investors into one account and have one master account which would be investor will be managing. All the funds that are put into the fund each investor has access to their own funds and they control that. The investor has its own portal and they can control their deposits, withdraws and basically the fund manager only controls the main account and takes fee of that overall profit or a profit sharing at the end of each month. So, they’re going to be integrating that account management model to the cryptocurrency space where currently there really isn't anything and what you guys all you have to do is someone wants to manage some crypto money then you have to give it all to the investor and the investor can do whatever wants with it. There’s really no transparency between the two, the manager can take some funds or do some shady stuff and the investor may never know so this is going to clear away all that and create a proper portal for both investor and manager. So, they're going to try and get some high-quality managers on their team, on their platform. What can happen let’s say one manager is doing poorly, their performance is bad you can quickly change to another manager and in this world right now there's no platform out there that you can actually do. 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"content": "Coinmetro aims to put together attributes like coinbase, basically what they’re trying to do is they're trying to put all the things together in one platform where you don't have to go to four or five different sites to deposit your FIAT and then transfer your FIAT to an exchange to buy coins, cryptocurrencies and after that you have to transfer it back to your account. There's so much of a hassle and many people don't even have access to coinbase and that's just one of the problems that they're going to solve. There are not many FIAT exchanges out there because there's lots of regulations and it's a real hassle to get licensed for that. What coinmetro is going to be doing is they’re going to aim to get that license because there's going to be lots of regulations coming in. 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Coinmetro will already scan your ICO, make sure you’re legitimate and this way no one's going to get scammed and lose their ethereum or bitcoin. Right now, there are a lot of bad exchanges out there with poor customer support, it takes literally forever to get in contact with them just in case something goes wrong. There're not a lot of employees at exchanges so what coinmetro is going to be aiming to do is become the Best of Breed this aspect. Their exchange is going to be comparable to Binance or Huobi, these higher-end exchanges which are very fast, very secure and they’re simply very low transaction fees. Some exchanges have crazy amounts of spread between the bid and ask price and this just makes them very inefficient. Maybe because there's no volume there or just not be large enough but coinmetro is going to solve all those problems by creating a fast and scalable exchange with low transaction fees and they’re also going to be offering things like atomic swap between crypto currencies. So, let's say you want to transfer your vert coin for litecoin, you won't have to sell your coin for a Bitcoin and then buy the litecoin. You can simply just use what’s called atomic swap and transfer your vert coin to litecoin. That's just one example, more coins going to adopting this technology in future. For the trading platform, they're going to make it user friendly and they're also going to add like advanced charts and tools for professional traders.\nRight now, if you look at a bittrex or something like that they don't have many advanced options. Everyone uses tradingview if I'm not mistaken so if they can integrate this into their platform, everyone will come to them. And I'm sure coinmetro will add other features to their platform other than technical analysis. Along with that currently on exchanges like binance, bittrex when you try to do a complex order type, let’s say sell stop order, buy stop order or use a stop loss simply even that's hard, very complicated to do that. They're going to solve that by making it very easy for you to make advanced order types as well.\n\nTokenized asset management, it's based on a successful managed account model that they created at FXPIG. They're going to use what they've learned from FXPIG and integrate it into the crypto world. They really have the experience in FXPIG and they've been doing it for many years so they'll just translate that over to crypto and I’m sure they'll do well. TAM is similar to personal money management account and basically in that you can pool funds together from multiple investors into one account and have one master account which would be investor will be managing. All the funds that are put into the fund each investor has access to their own funds and they control that. The investor has its own portal and they can control their deposits, withdraws and basically the fund manager only controls the main account and takes fee of that overall profit or a profit sharing at the end of each month. So, they’re going to be integrating that account management model to the cryptocurrency space where currently there really isn't anything and what you guys all you have to do is someone wants to manage some crypto money then you have to give it all to the investor and the investor can do whatever wants with it. There’s really no transparency between the two, the manager can take some funds or do some shady stuff and the investor may never know so this is going to clear away all that and create a proper portal for both investor and manager. So, they're going to try and get some high-quality managers on their team, on their platform. 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"content": "<br />Little bit about this company, they're coming out of the United Kingdom and what they're offering to the blockchain world is a platform where companies and clients that are needing advisers to specifically answer and to function in specific needs of a corporation or a company or anything that the client would need. OnLive is allowing the platform for the advisers to be found and to be negotiated with and that could be on several different tiers or levels. You might decide okay I want to speak to an advisor and I want to ask him specific or her specific questions and I only need an hour or two hours of their time. You would probably negotiate a pay per minute on that particular fee schedule then there's others that say okay I'm looking for advice on this and I found this article OnLive here on their platform and it's a pay-per-view and it’ll help me understand some things so there is another fee schedule. 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Any coins that are not sold are going to be destroyed which really helps them the value of that token. It's a platform that I can meet with you and I'm an advisor and you're needing advice. We can negotiate the cost and the fees, anyone can contribute to the system if they have the processing power and the bandwidth that's all it takes. You can do it from your phone, they have live broadcasts. This is such a vast possibility if you're a content creator you could put your content up on platform and get paid per view. If you're an expert in anything you can make yourself known, have your own information on platform so that they can look and review. They’ll come to you and negotiate sitting down and either a pay per minute or you put out videos on your expertise anything. You can talk about automotive stuff, talk about educational stuff, talk about investing, scientific, mathematical equations. 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When you find some place like this OnLive and they say we can bring you the expert in and you can make a living online never leave your house, helping other people the world becomes a better place.<br /><br />Website: <a href=\"https://on.live\" target=\"_blank\">https://on.live</a><br /><br />Twitter: <a href=\"http://twitter.com/on_live\" target=\"_blank\">http://twitter.com/on_live</a><br /><br />Facebook: <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OnLive.TV/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/OnLive.TV/</a><br /><br />Telegram: <a href=\"https://t.me/OnLive\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.me/OnLive</a><br /><br />Whitepaper: <a href=\"https://on.live/documents/OnLive_Whitepaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://on.live/documents/OnLive_Whitepaper.pdf</a><br /><br />Bitcointalk ANN: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2738965\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2738965</a><br /><br />Authored by: donniedarko<br />Bitcointalk url: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051</a>",
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"content": "\nLittle bit about this company, they're coming out of the United Kingdom and what they're offering to the blockchain world is a platform where companies and clients that are needing advisers to specifically answer and to function in specific needs of a corporation or a company or anything that the client would need. OnLive is allowing the platform for the advisers to be found and to be negotiated with and that could be on several different tiers or levels. You might decide okay I want to speak to an advisor and I want to ask him specific or her specific questions and I only need an hour or two hours of their time. You would probably negotiate a pay per minute on that particular fee schedule then there's others that say okay I'm looking for advice on this and I found this article OnLive here on their platform and it's a pay-per-view and it’ll help me understand some things so there is another fee schedule. And then there are those that say I want live streaming and you can negotiate with the adviser of your choice on that. It’s really a phenomenal concept of what they're bringing together and the scope is virtually limitless. You could use this in just about any area of life or business that you would think possible. It's a great opportunity and I really like the way they're putting this together.\n\nThe team is a 12-member team, the footprints go back well over three years. The token is an ERC20 token, there's 111 million in total coins supply and they're going to be selling 61 millions of them in their crowdsale. The cost of one ONL is 0.00131 ethereum and there are countries that are prohibited, they are not showing any country as being prohibited from being involved in the token sale but they do ask that you check for your own personal location and what your national requirements may be. Any coins that are not sold are going to be destroyed which really helps them the value of that token. It's a platform that I can meet with you and I'm an advisor and you're needing advice. We can negotiate the cost and the fees, anyone can contribute to the system if they have the processing power and the bandwidth that's all it takes. You can do it from your phone, they have live broadcasts. This is such a vast possibility if you're a content creator you could put your content up on platform and get paid per view. If you're an expert in anything you can make yourself known, have your own information on platform so that they can look and review. They’ll come to you and negotiate sitting down and either a pay per minute or you put out videos on your expertise anything. You can talk about automotive stuff, talk about educational stuff, talk about investing, scientific, mathematical equations. This thing can go anywhere including it up to tutorials, in tutoring.\n\nYou can be a math tutor and get paid per minute to have someone come in, use your system and you're advising them or educating them on how to do what they're seeking to do and you get paid for it. This is going to make the world a much smaller place. There are people that go to YouTube and they're looking for certain things, they don't find specifics and they can never get a hold of the person that they're trying to get a hold of. They're stuck with a video and while that's been great in many ways but it's extremely limited. With the OnLive you can jump and say I’m looking to do this and I need to speak to you. I need schedule the time, I'm willing to pay for it and you helped me achieve what I need to achieve. You can spend hours, days and weeks trying to recreate the wheel or you can go to the one that created and let them explain to you how they did it. This is a beautiful thing especially when you're into the blockchain world and you have an idea, you need advice, you need advisors, you need someone. You can build a team, you can launch your own an ICO from on this platform, you can launch your own ICO with advisors that you met here that can help you build a very successful company. Build your dream and then finance it through crowdfunding and ICO, pick your advisors from such an ecosystem as this. When you find some place like this OnLive and they say we can bring you the expert in and you can make a living online never leave your house, helping other people the world becomes a better place.\n\nWebsite: https://on.live\n\nTwitter: http://twitter.com/on_live\n\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/OnLive.TV/\n\nTelegram: https://t.me/OnLive\n\nWhitepaper: https://on.live/documents/OnLive_Whitepaper.pdf\n\nBitcointalk ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2738965\n\nAuthored by: donniedarko\nBitcointalk url: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051",
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"content": "<br />What is invox finance? It's invoice lending platform, if you think about a small business and the invoice, their customers they might not get payment for let's say 45 - 90 to even 120 days in some cases very long time from when they actually do the job and get paid for it. This means that they can maybe struggle for finance and capital during that the interim period. So, what this platform intends to do is provide these businesses with a way to get money based on the invoice amounts. competition is in singular and it is populous, there is no other ICO or blockchain company that is offering the service at the moment. The differences between populous and invox, the populous platform doesn't allow buyers in the service. The invox platform is actually going to connect the sellers, invoices and buyers on the same platform. It's going to be much more involving and the buyers will also be rewarded with the invox tokens as well. Another difference between the two is invoices uploaded onto the populous platform, paper-based invoices making them static whereas the invox finance platform will incorporate dynamic invoice smart contracts. Allowing the contracts with invoices to be in a completely digital format and looking forward to actually eliminating any paper-based invoices. Another difference the populous platform requires investors to bid against each other as sort of auction for financing the invoices whereas the invox platform will provide everybody with equal access so there'll be a large pool of sellers and based on what the investors risk preferences are and then this will basically eliminate the need for investors to undercut each other in an auction environment. You won't be scrambling or bidding against each other, you'll have a fair and equal chance to get involved. The other differences, populous requires investors to join together in a group so essentially, they’re forming a pool if they're unable to fund larger invoices whereas the invox platform divides the loan in a number of fragments. This allowing a smaller investor to invest as well.<br /><br />The invox finance is important because for companies especially they can run out of cash flow if the invoice doesn’t pay promptly. The other side of the coin is if they demand the invoice too quick then buyers are perhaps not going to use their services or buy their products because they have to pay quickly. Normally in business the invoicing is between 30 to 90 days, in some cases little as seven days and in other cases as long as 120 days. Seller might invoice on 30-day basis but within those 30 days if the invoice isn't paid then they’ll struggle for cash flow and they need the financing, they need the cash flow to come in so what they'll do is perhaps go to the bank for an overdraft or they will use funds from elsewhere. The way the traditional invoice financing works is, the financier takes the invoice from the seller and usually provides up to about 80 percent of the face value of the invoice. The financier making let's say 20 percent on average off each invoice and this allows the seller to get the cash flow quicker and the financier can just sit and wait until the buyer pays and get rewarded with 20% of the total as a result. This normally depends on a number of factors and obviously the assessed credit rating of the seller, the strength of the financial position of the buyer as well. You're going to take into account their current position at the moment whenever the invoices have been issued. The industry sectors the buyer and seller involved in and what type of documentation is available to confirm delivery of the product. A postal receipt, signed, some proof of work that's been signed by the buyer saying that the works been done, contracts being completed or the goods have been received.<br /><br />The main problem is the financier that purchases of the invoice from the seller who doesn't have a relationship with the buyer. He's basically stepping in as a debt recovery agent or whatever if the buyer refuses to pay and the financer has to rely on most of the information that's provided by the seller. The relationship between the seller and buyer may not be completely transparent. The financier is taking the risk and in effect that’s what he's getting paid the 20% for. It's based on a relationship of trust between the seller and the buyer and this obviously has problems as the buyer and seller may collude or conspire to defraud the financier. The seller may be issuing an invoice for example for a service that has not been fully completed or a product that's not complied with the agreed spec or requirements of the buyer. The buyer may also dispute the payment liability as well. The buyer may become insolvent and unable to pay for the invoices. There is also issues with the complexity of the processes, legal documentation etc. the preparation and execution of legal documents is laborious and costly and may involve a number of third party providers. As you can understand this is a relationship that’s based on trust and it brings with these inherent problems. If you’ve been involved in business and you’ve done any invoice financing, a lot of these problems will be pretty common to you and you will already be aware of them but if you've not and that's really what the issues are and of course we’re talking about trust here so what better solution than a trustless platform such as the blockchain to implement invoice financing. 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"content": "\nWhat is invox finance? It's invoice lending platform, if you think about a small business and the invoice, their customers they might not get payment for let's say 45 - 90 to even 120 days in some cases very long time from when they actually do the job and get paid for it. This means that they can maybe struggle for finance and capital during that the interim period. So, what this platform intends to do is provide these businesses with a way to get money based on the invoice amounts. competition is in singular and it is populous, there is no other ICO or blockchain company that is offering the service at the moment. The differences between populous and invox, the populous platform doesn't allow buyers in the service. The invox platform is actually going to connect the sellers, invoices and buyers on the same platform. It's going to be much more involving and the buyers will also be rewarded with the invox tokens as well. Another difference between the two is invoices uploaded onto the populous platform, paper-based invoices making them static whereas the invox finance platform will incorporate dynamic invoice smart contracts. Allowing the contracts with invoices to be in a completely digital format and looking forward to actually eliminating any paper-based invoices. Another difference the populous platform requires investors to bid against each other as sort of auction for financing the invoices whereas the invox platform will provide everybody with equal access so there'll be a large pool of sellers and based on what the investors risk preferences are and then this will basically eliminate the need for investors to undercut each other in an auction environment. You won't be scrambling or bidding against each other, you'll have a fair and equal chance to get involved. The other differences, populous requires investors to join together in a group so essentially, they’re forming a pool if they're unable to fund larger invoices whereas the invox platform divides the loan in a number of fragments. This allowing a smaller investor to invest as well.\n\nThe invox finance is important because for companies especially they can run out of cash flow if the invoice doesn’t pay promptly. The other side of the coin is if they demand the invoice too quick then buyers are perhaps not going to use their services or buy their products because they have to pay quickly. Normally in business the invoicing is between 30 to 90 days, in some cases little as seven days and in other cases as long as 120 days. Seller might invoice on 30-day basis but within those 30 days if the invoice isn't paid then they’ll struggle for cash flow and they need the financing, they need the cash flow to come in so what they'll do is perhaps go to the bank for an overdraft or they will use funds from elsewhere. The way the traditional invoice financing works is, the financier takes the invoice from the seller and usually provides up to about 80 percent of the face value of the invoice. The financier making let's say 20 percent on average off each invoice and this allows the seller to get the cash flow quicker and the financier can just sit and wait until the buyer pays and get rewarded with 20% of the total as a result. This normally depends on a number of factors and obviously the assessed credit rating of the seller, the strength of the financial position of the buyer as well. You're going to take into account their current position at the moment whenever the invoices have been issued. 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"content": "What is Omnitude? It's a blockchain solution for existing enterprise systems, supply chains and existing ecommerce platforms and they want to tie these all together so they can benefit from the blockchain technology. The problems they want to solve are fourfold. Ecommerce fraud is one, supply chain is another, ID confirmations another and the general cost of doing business is the final one now. Ecommerce fraud always going to be a problem and by using an immutable ledger like the blockchain, we can reduce fraud by having a single identity document or a single recognizable identity. ID confirmation for people because a lot of the fraud is actually people impersonating other people and stealing their data, getting access to their data through hacking or and other attacks and then using that to make transactions. There are four different types of common fraud. Clean fraud which is just impersonating the cardholder with the acquisition of extensive amounts of personal data. 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One of the big problem of the supply chain is the counterfeit and pirated goods economy and that was worth half a trillion dollars last year. Two-point five percent which is a really staggering number of global imports are actually pirated goods and not originals. 86 percent of retailers see their sales are hurt by the sale of counterfeit goods. So, those are big numbers and it's a big issue. The other issue with the supply chain is customer deliveries. When we talk about the UK as an example 2015-16 over two billion items were delivered to UK households but 43% of the customers did not receive dispatch and delivery date notifications. 46% of etailers did not receive a delivery confirmation either. A lot of things could go missing, there's a big issue there and that's exactly where the blockchain can come in and solve this problem as the smart contracts can automate the notifications and there will be a mutable ledger to see whether you did send the goods, receive the goods etc. The third big problem is identity confirmation, to give you a couple of examples of how this is a problem. You have to supply your identity and your information every time you sign up for a new service. That's an issue in itself but there's also a problem where the data isn't safeguarded, it isn’t secure and it could leak out get hacked or whatever and you could be a victim of internet fraud.<br /><br /><br />Another thing is that reviews, product rating that type of thing especially on TripAdvisor other such businesses they can be faked so you can use that to damage competitors, you can use that to build up your own reputation but it’s fake. If we talk about the statistics if you've got a review system for every star a business gets there's approximate 5 to 10 increases in business revenue so people do actually go online and make decisions based on what people tell them. It's quite influential way of improving your business if you're faking profiles and faking reviews. Customers are likely to spend 31% more on a business with excellent reviews as well. I think that's true, we've all done it before we all go on to Expedia, booking.com similar websites to pick your option and we always look at the rating of the hotel before we make a decision. So, reviews do matter and there’s a lot of fraud being committed to boost up businesses that don’t necessarily deserve the customer. The final problem is the general cost of doing business. When you use a payment gateway as a merchant, there's a lot of fees involved especially if you’re using PayPal and they are one of the biggest and if you're an online retailer there's not much you can do about it. You really have accepted PayPal these days and that’s a problem because you're paying at least two-point nine percent in transaction fees plus another fixed fee as well every time you sell an item. It's not really an economic, it does cost a lot of money and it eats your profits. So, the solution to this is obviously having a cryptocurrency where payments g made using the crypto and that will reduce the fees. Fees will be negligible and encourage more people to pay in that manner.<br /><br /><br />The aim of Omnitude is just to create their own blockchain solutions to all these problems and by doing that they will be able to integrate existing enterprise systems, existing supply chains and existing ecommerce platforms as well so you’ll be able to use it as a merchant. 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So, the solution to this is obviously having a cryptocurrency where payments g made using the crypto and that will reduce the fees. Fees will be negligible and encourage more people to pay in that manner.\n\n\nThe aim of Omnitude is just to create their own blockchain solutions to all these problems and by doing that they will be able to integrate existing enterprise systems, existing supply chains and existing ecommerce platforms as well so you’ll be able to use it as a merchant. For example, if you've got your own website and it will integrate with the other enterprise systems already existing like Shopify and that type of websites so merchants can easily get the benefits, the advantages of the blockchain. By having the blockchain integrating you will be able to integrate with blockchain systems, existing systems such as ERP and WMS. 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"content": "<br />First thing I want to say is these guys already have 1 million location verifying beacons globally which are GPS and Bluetooth. They allow you to track basically a parcel, a car, diamonds the ability to do a lot of stuff is endless in the sense that there's many things that you could utilize this on. Myself I could see this being used in facilities management where I need to know if people actually done some servicing because obviously if we can identify that people have been to a specific site or specific equipment has there’s been purchased for a specific task I can verify they've been there. The other part of this being which is why the token is important is you can have a trustless environment in the sense that as long as say I ordered a tool for something and I need it to go to a location which could be a hospital if that actually reaches the hospital, it could actually generate an automated payment rather than somebody then invoicing me to say it's to being delivered last Tuesday and nobody's told me is there. It's a case of the beacon would actually be able to identify that the package is in that location and verify that is there as such it's trustless because it doesn't rely on whether I trust them or not. It's actually there, it’s proven because it identifies it. This is a system that allows the proof of the location of pretty much anything. It could be for used for drone deliveries, could be used for autonomous cars, it could be used for tracking a stolen car even because you can identify where it is. So, this is the technology and why use this over GPS? GPS is get block by fog, they get blocked by cloud cover which can make it unreliable but also it doesn't have the ability to become trustless and well unless something's changed when recent times where it could identify some things at my door. The other side of this being if you’ve got multiple beacons like I said have got million beacons already, if a parcel is on its ways to your house it would have the ability to actually ping to say it’s within five miles which means you know roughly when it's got get delivered because if you know a lot of these parcels from all over the world, I have no idea when it is going to arrive.<br /><br />The business is not new, being up in one since 2012 I believe. They've got 1 million Bluetooth and GPS trackers around the world already and they’re the first company that they are doing it. The crowdsale after the XYL token generation event ends in a matter of weeks after it begins and possibly soon in spending on transaction activity, every unsold token, XYO token will be burn forever creating a true incentive and an opportunity for those who participate during the token sale. I do want to verify that the XYL tokens are not representative inequity or a security. XYO tokens are used for transacting with the XYO network and critical to leveraging crypto economics to maintain a healthy ecosystem that rewards providers of accurate location signal providers as well as those who transact XYO. You can also mine as well, there’s GPS mining Bluetooth mining. It starts March 20th, ends May 20th. One ETH equals 100,000 XYO tokens all unsold and not allocated tokens will be burned after the token sale event. How will be broken down is 40% of the tokens will be used for network growth and marketing, 5% support for ethereum platform projects represent overheads. 15% XYO Oracle Network platform operations, 35% engineering, research and development.<br /><br />Website: <a href=\"https://xyo.network/\" target=\"_blank\">https://xyo.network/</a><br /><br />Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/XYOracleNetwork\" target=\"_blank\">https://twitter.com/XYOracleNetwork</a><br /><br />Facebook: <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/xyonetwork\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/xyonetwork</a><br /><br />Telegram: <a href=\"https://t.me/xyonetwork\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.me/xyonetwork</a><br /><br />Whitepaper: <a href=\"https://docs.xyo.network/XYO-White-Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://docs.xyo.network/XYO-White-Paper.pdf</a><br /><br />Bitcointalk ANN: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1695930;sa=summary\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1695930;sa=summary</a><br /><br />Authored by: donniedarko<br />Bitcointalk url: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051</a>",
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"content": "I’m going to talk about the internet and how that initially started and then go how DAV is implementing similar ways of how the internet evolve but basically when the Internet's started it was a few companies that tried to conquer the Internet and they had their own platforms, they didn't let anyone else see what they were working on and its just very private development. As the internet expanded and has more players and as more developers, companies emerged as they saw the same landscape as these companies like AOL and they saw different ways to implement to take their technology into the Internet. Then you see companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook all these companies emerge from that same internet model that existed before. Similarly, how the internet evolution occurred that same evolution is occurring in the field of autonomous transportation. And autonomous transportation is just another word for self-driving vehicles. Currently you have companies like Google, Lyft, Uber, Nvidia, Tesla and Baidu who are competing with each other to bring these technologies to the consumer. And they're actually doing a very good job but it could be done very faster if these projects were put and made open source meaning that more people more developers can come on project help, develop and bring this to the consumer.<br /><br /><br />Right now, if one company fails they're done for but if it's open source as they stated, there's no single point of failure so even if one or two or three companies fail it'll be alright but if it was open source everybody can work on it together. DAV is bringing this whole thing to open source, they are going to integrate the whole ecosystem. A report published by London based, estimates that driverless cars will become more common and people continue to increase trend of moving from car ownership into opting for on-demand autonomous electric vehicle services. So, this could save a family more than 5.6 K per year equivalent to a wage rage of 10% for the medium American household and that would result in one trillion dollars per saving per year. Few ways that would be saving this money if you just think about it one way is the cost associated with a self-driving car rather than having to buy your own car. Many times, people get the car with interest payments because they don't have the initial down payment. When we think about how much cheaper would be to just have a field of autonomous cars in in the whole entire streets that you could cater to and you could call up to your house on demand. The amount of money it would save you in the long run rather than just buying a car and having to do maintenance on the car and all that sort of stuff.<br /><br /><br />Another thing is that with the self-driving cars, they're running with algorithms and the computer is basically running them. So, basically, they know exactly when to break, exactly when to push the accelerator, which turns to take, which routes to take and this is going to be saving much more money on in terms of fuel consumption and that's just a few examples. I'm sure there are many more but these are just some main things that I have thought of. You might think that this technology is 5, 10, 20 years in the future but no it’s pretty much here and it'll probably be implemented on a large scale within 5 to 10 years or even sooner. You have companies like Waymo which is a Google partner that’s already tested 3.5 million miles and you have Tesla. Nvidia, Baidu. Bauidu is the Chinese Google and they've tested a lot so there's a lot of companies that are coming into the space. It's not something that’s going to be may go a long time to roll out when stuff moves it'll move fast. The main thing you guys want to think about is this technology is going to be coming much sooner than we think but the government has to allow this technology to be adopted. It's not a matter of if they're going to do it it's a matter when they're going to do.<br /><br /><br />Currently if you look at drones also this self-driving or this autonomous vehicle technology is also applicable to drones and drones before 2017 and I think early 2016 were not regulated by the FAA. Anyone could just have a drone and fly at around wherever they want to and that was a security concern for the government. They made sure to address that and basically what they came about is you have to apply for a for a license to have your drones and in early 2017 basically they had four hundred and sixty-one thousand recreational drones registered and about 8400 commercial drones. A lot of countries already getting into the game Switzerland, Iceland, Tanzania, they’re already allowing autonomous drone delivery options. From 2018 Japan will permit this as well. Another thing I want to think about is the amount of money it would save companies like Amazon, mail delivery services to deliver packages and how quickly they would be able to deliver packages with these drones. Amazon currently is already developing their own technology with these drone deliveries and basically, they would be saving a lot of money and they would be eliminating the human aspect of things and eliminating human error.<br /><br /><br />So, the purpose of the DAV cryptocurrency is to incentivize a community built autonomous vehicle infrastructure and build autonomous vehicle platform that's commercially viable and essential for cooperation. You can make money and make DAV tokens by providing autonomous vehicles on demand for people who want to go from one place to another or deliver a certain package. The infrastructure providers you earn tokens by providing docking, charging and battery replacement equipment. That kind of makes sense for Tesla if they just have is docking and charging stations or superchargers, they could just provide the Tesla’s self-driving cars with these docking and earn DAV tokens doing all that stuff but Service providers would be people who are maintaining the vehicles and if let's say you have a lost or damaged vehicle, if you have a repair shop and you repair those the car then you get some DAV tokens for it as a way of payment. You have the manufacturers who are assembling and selling the open-source DAV prefabricated parts which would be like the software basically for the autonomous vehicles. It looks like they want to integrate everyone from the bottom of the chain to the top.<br /><br />Website: <a href=\"https://dav.network\" target=\"_blank\">https://dav.network</a><br /><br />Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/DavNetwork\" target=\"_blank\">https://twitter.com/DavNetwork</a><br /><br />Facebook: <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DAVNetworkTeam\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/DAVNetworkTeam</a><br /><br />Telegram: <a href=\"http://t.me/DAVNetwork\" target=\"_blank\">http://t.me/DAVNetwork</a><br /><br />Whitepaper: <a href=\"https://dav.network/whitepaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://dav.network/whitepaper.pdf</a><br /><br />Bitcointalk ANN: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2614017.0\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2614017.0</a><br /><br />Authored by: donniedarko<br />Bitcointalk url: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051</a>",
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So, this could save a family more than 5.6 K per year equivalent to a wage rage of 10% for the medium American household and that would result in one trillion dollars per saving per year. Few ways that would be saving this money if you just think about it one way is the cost associated with a self-driving car rather than having to buy your own car. Many times, people get the car with interest payments because they don't have the initial down payment. When we think about how much cheaper would be to just have a field of autonomous cars in in the whole entire streets that you could cater to and you could call up to your house on demand. The amount of money it would save you in the long run rather than just buying a car and having to do maintenance on the car and all that sort of stuff.\n\n\nAnother thing is that with the self-driving cars, they're running with algorithms and the computer is basically running them. 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The main thing you guys want to think about is this technology is going to be coming much sooner than we think but the government has to allow this technology to be adopted. It's not a matter of if they're going to do it it's a matter when they're going to do.\n\n\nCurrently if you look at drones also this self-driving or this autonomous vehicle technology is also applicable to drones and drones before 2017 and I think early 2016 were not regulated by the FAA. Anyone could just have a drone and fly at around wherever they want to and that was a security concern for the government. They made sure to address that and basically what they came about is you have to apply for a for a license to have your drones and in early 2017 basically they had four hundred and sixty-one thousand recreational drones registered and about 8400 commercial drones. A lot of countries already getting into the game Switzerland, Iceland, Tanzania, they’re already allowing autonomous drone delivery options. From 2018 Japan will permit this as well. Another thing I want to think about is the amount of money it would save companies like Amazon, mail delivery services to deliver packages and how quickly they would be able to deliver packages with these drones. Amazon currently is already developing their own technology with these drone deliveries and basically, they would be saving a lot of money and they would be eliminating the human aspect of things and eliminating human error.\n\n\nSo, the purpose of the DAV cryptocurrency is to incentivize a community built autonomous vehicle infrastructure and build autonomous vehicle platform that's commercially viable and essential for cooperation. You can make money and make DAV tokens by providing autonomous vehicles on demand for people who want to go from one place to another or deliver a certain package. The infrastructure providers you earn tokens by providing docking, charging and battery replacement equipment. 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"content": "<br /><br />Streamity company is basically coming out of Singapore but the team is predominantly Russian team. The token is called STM and they're an independent platform peer-to-peer for trading. The problem that exists that they're trying to eliminate is that although cryptocurrencies are decentralized, there's not really existed a true peer-to-peer exchange without some kind of a third-party interference. The Streamity project embodies the idea of really honest cryptocurrency exchange between two individuals in other words a peer-to-peer exchange. Streamity platform will solve this because it enables the peer-to-peer transactions with low fees and smart contracts that act as an escrow type security while keeping anonymity intact. There is a KYC that you're going to fill out know your customer and give them pertinent information that will be intact and kept private but it helps prevent illegal and questionable transactions like money laundering and things like that. 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All this is going to take place on your smartphone and what I like about this is if you're wanting to take FIAT and turn it into cash and I've had a lot of people ask me how do I do this, especially large numbers. Depending on how large the number it could really become a flag as far as whether someone's trying to launder money but if they're actually just saying what I'll buy $1,000 with a Bitcoin or I got a Bitcoin and I want to sell it for $1,000. You can go to Steamily platform on your phone, find your other peer who is going to do what you need done if you're buying a thousand dollars with the Bitcoin find someone on this platform that's selling a thousand dollars of Bitcoin and you two come together here and there's no exchange. And that is huge in the fact that you don't have to go home get on your computer move money from your wallet to an exchange and get everything set up. <br /><br />With Streamity, their peer-to-peer system is the ability to transact using smart contracts from one user to another so you can do those FIAT transactions and crypto transactions through their system. It is completely independent secure due to the use of smart contract architecture and the API of payment systems. the other thing that's unique about this is nearly all the exchanges you are currently dealing with are centralized whether you like it or not. Binance, Kucoin etc. whatever you’re holding your funds on their exchange in a centralized system. This will be decentralized like everything that’s pretty much peer-to-peer where the entire network controls it and the smart contracts is the safety mechanism on this. This will be also a very good mechanism for moving money around the globe as well at very low. 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"content": "<br />What is Chainium? it’s an equity blockchain, it's going to make buying and selling shares and companies real equity, more achievable for small businesses and for the average investors like you and me. This is going to be a disruptive ICO I believe the reason why it's very difficult for people to buy stocks and shares if they're not an accredited investor they don't use a middleman so this could be something that is very disruptive to the stock market industry similar to how ICOs have been disruptive to IPOs. Referring to the Chainium white paper, there is a competitive analysis in their whitepaper and there's quite a lot of overlapping competition that you could consider maybe competition in certain areas but not really doing exactly the same thing as what Chainium is. First one is of course the traditional crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo and obviously small businesses use those to raise capital for a further expansion etcetera. There’s also equity crowdfunding, some of those are CircleUp, Seedrs and Crowdcube none of them that I'm overly familiar with but basically, they are a centralized mechanism for selling equity or shares in unlisted companies. There is execution only listed trading platforms so you can actually sell your equity on platforms exchanges like the share center and RobinHood. When you're not actually publicly listed on a stock exchange yet and then you've also got private investment brokers as well and they offer trading platforms for unlisted companies too. So, those are the old-world approaches and of course we have some blockchain projects but and I don’t think any of them are in direct competition for all of their services. There are a few blocking projects that have similarities to Chainium, in terms of what they are trying to do. First one is asset tokenization, you’re probably familiar with LAToken, KICKICO, they're basically allow any sort of physical property like artworks, commodities to be treated on their platform. There's also other blockchain projects for equities clearing and settlement some of them are Setl.io, T0 and Chain. They just basically reduce the cost in equities clearing and settlement. Then there are prediction markets a stocks, Gnosis and Augur are listed as the examples in the whitepaper. It's sort of like gambling where you invest on a share price over a fixed time period to see whether it goes up or down. There's also crypto funds so they're manage funds, blackmoon crypto, blockchain capital and there’s many others. They offer a stake in a fund and the funds are managed for you and then you get some returns. However, Chainium is not an investment fund, it's not a vehicle, it’s not competing with any of those projects. So that's not what Chainium trying to do, essentially what Chainium are doing is offering equity in small businesses to any investors much like what IPOs or ICOs allowing anybody to invest in these small businesses and in turn allowing small businesses access to capital that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to achieve. So, they'll be able to get capital in exchange for equity and raise funds in that manner.<br /><br /><br />When we talk about the problems, there are limited options for raising capital especially for small private businesses, they don't have the option. They do crowdfunding, it's going to be expensive, typical crowdfunding sites take at least four percent of the money and it's confusing as well. It's difficult and it's not the real ideal solution especially for small businesses that are looking to raise capital so if you want to trade your equity in your company for capital then you could always do an IPO but then that’s going to get even more expensive. There's a lot of middlemen involved, they’re going to take their cut and again it's a long-drawn-out process. So, there is very limited options for what you can do, you could also go and find a venture capitalist I suppose and get them to invest in your business but then again who knows venture capitalists, becoming more common certainly with in the crypto space but in general if you are just a small business you probably don't know any venture capitalists and you’re probably not going to meet any. The next problem is as I just mentioned middlemen almost are always necessary to do anything when it comes to raising capital for small private businesses. You always have to use a middleman, you have to use them to set up an IPO or you'd have to use them to probably get in touch with venture capitalists and people that are what they're willing to invest their money and again they will always take a cut. Raising capital for small businesses is confusing, complex slow and expensive. The process is long, drawn-out, it's complex most people can't understand, they get confused and ultimately, it's expensive. In terms of investors, investors also have limited options for investing in stocks and shares. Unless you're an accredited investor you can’t really just buy stocks and shares in companies, you've got to go middle man and this costs you money. Using stockbrokers and that's why they've got this sort of wall setup, they earn money you can’t get in as a normal person. It’s what ICOs have been disrupting now for few months and is the IPO only accessible to accredited investors if you won't want to invest in IPO, you've got to go through your stockbroker and they make the deals for you. 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There’s also equity crowdfunding, some of those are CircleUp, Seedrs and Crowdcube none of them that I'm overly familiar with but basically, they are a centralized mechanism for selling equity or shares in unlisted companies. There is execution only listed trading platforms so you can actually sell your equity on platforms exchanges like the share center and RobinHood. When you're not actually publicly listed on a stock exchange yet and then you've also got private investment brokers as well and they offer trading platforms for unlisted companies too. So, those are the old-world approaches and of course we have some blockchain projects but and I don’t think any of them are in direct competition for all of their services. There are a few blocking projects that have similarities to Chainium, in terms of what they are trying to do. First one is asset tokenization, you’re probably familiar with LAToken, KICKICO, they're basically allow any sort of physical property like artworks, commodities to be treated on their platform. There's also other blockchain projects for equities clearing and settlement some of them are Setl.io, T0 and Chain. They just basically reduce the cost in equities clearing and settlement. Then there are prediction markets a stocks, Gnosis and Augur are listed as the examples in the whitepaper. It's sort of like gambling where you invest on a share price over a fixed time period to see whether it goes up or down. There's also crypto funds so they're manage funds, blackmoon crypto, blockchain capital and there’s many others. They offer a stake in a fund and the funds are managed for you and then you get some returns. However, Chainium is not an investment fund, it's not a vehicle, it’s not competing with any of those projects. 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The process is long, drawn-out, it's complex most people can't understand, they get confused and ultimately, it's expensive. In terms of investors, investors also have limited options for investing in stocks and shares. Unless you're an accredited investor you can’t really just buy stocks and shares in companies, you've got to go middle man and this costs you money. Using stockbrokers and that's why they've got this sort of wall setup, they earn money you can’t get in as a normal person. It’s what ICOs have been disrupting now for few months and is the IPO only accessible to accredited investors if you won't want to invest in IPO, you've got to go through your stockbroker and they make the deals for you. 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"content": "<br />So, what is Syncfab? It is a supply chain management tool that will allow you to procure track and organize your local parts production so you can source something like CNC machining or welding near you. Initially it'll be for the USA and I’m sure they've got aspirations of going global. If you don't know what is CNC is, it’s actually computer numerical control it just means use these machines to cut and manufacture parts. Basically, using a computer to control the cutting etc. As far as the competition goes I don’t believe there is any for this particular ICO and that's a really good selling point for me. They are pretty unique, there are not going to be any other companies coming out trying to do a blockchain for this kind of supply chain management which is good. They've obviously identified finding parts manufacturers as a big problem in the USA in particular and if you can’t find them in the US, it's going to be a difficult globally as well. Even a quick google turned up and quite a few results for individual companies but no real platform that you could get your parts manufactured on. You'd have to go through the lengthy process of contacting each company individually, telling them your requirements, getting a quote. Typical way that business has been conducted previously before blockchain technology came along. This technology could be quite disruptive for the industry if they can implement and as far as I am aware they don't have any competition even centralized or decentralized so that’s a big bonus for them.<br /><br />The problems they want to solve, first off, it's very difficult for small businesses to get anything manufactured. Basically, manufacturers prefer larger order so they prefer large companies and this doesn't allow smaller innovators or entrepreneurs, smaller manufacturers to get involved. It's very difficult, it’s expensive, it really is time-consuming and annoying. I used to work a company related to that in Berlin so I know, I've got experience and we used to have to really search high and low for companies that were willing to fabricate a stuff for us. It's difficult, it is a pain and this app, this blockchain, this project should hopefully go somewhere to making it a lot easier for small business to access parts manufacturer. The other thing is there's opaque procurement process and again there's no visibility, there's no transparency using the blockchain will obviously solve that. 31 percent of buyers they say, finding the right manufacturing supplier has been a problematic issue. I completely agree with that. I think that’s your first point of contact always going to be on the internet. You google, you might not find anything, you might have to search for a long time on the internet to find something that might even be suitable for what you're looking for. And then you’ve got to contact them, maybe visit the factory, it's very difficult. Another problem they see is outdated technology so current tech and manufacturing processes are outdated they say. Inefficient product procurement processes account for a yearly loss of 1.5 billion in revenue within North American businesses. It's the old world isn't it, fallen company up, the purchase orders being sent paper, it really is antiquated and now we have the blockchain technology hopefully this will all go away. The other problem and the final one is little to no IP protection. So, there's no protection for your intellectual property. If you've got a factory and get something made it can be easily stolen or copied. And it says, thirty nine percent of businesses have experienced a breach in the last 12 months. That's not surprised and of course having the immutable ledger and the blockchain will go some way in protecting that and curbing that problem.<br /><br />The aims of Syncfab are to provide supply chain platform that is tokenise, incentivizes people to use it. They're obviously going to use the blockchain, public blockchain and a private blockchain as well. They're going to have an app that will allow people to find manufacturing plants or find parts manufacturers. So, it’ll be a lot easier than the current model which is very tedious and time-consuming and annoying. And that will be eliminated so you won't have to use any intermediaries, there will be no third parties, you'll be going straight to the manufacturers getting help easily and hopefully being able to get your equipment manufacturer. Obviously, this is initially focused on computer numerical control machining and milling, welding as well but obviously you could see this being applied to a lot broader applications within the industry. They are going to connect you directly using the app and this is going to be a benefit to the manufacturers as well as they will get customers straightaway. It will all be done through smart contracts on the blockchain so you might not have to worry about getting paid and it will really improve and potentially be a big disrupter to this industry.<br /><br />If we look at the global market, we've got 500-billion-dollar potential market and that’s for global precision metal fabrication. When I say precision metal fabrication, we're not talking about some blacksmith banging, a metal on an anvil. We're talking about machining, milling and the CNC machining. Almost like a niche within the metal fabrication or other fabrication. You also have welding and numerous other different metal fabrication techniques, casting, forging etc. and that's just for precision metal fabrication. 75 billion for the us machining and metal stamping market alone. That is phenomenal and we use metal everywhere, you'd be very surprised actually how much industry is geared towards or around metal manufacturing inspection and maintenance. It really is a phenomenal amount of money. And California alone where they are located in Silicon Valley, 9.5 billion from machine shops in California receipts alone and that's working at a 50% capacity they're not chugging away a hundred percent.<br /><br />Website: blockchain.syncfab.com<br /><br />Twitter: <a href=\"https://www.twitter.com/syncfab/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.twitter.com/syncfab/</a><br /><br />Facebook: <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/syncfab/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/syncfab/</a><br /><br />Telegram: <a href=\"https://t.me/syncfab\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.me/syncfab</a><br /><br />Whitepaper: <a href=\"https://blockchain.syncfab.com/SyncFab_MFG_WP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://blockchain.syncfab.com/SyncFab_MFG_WP.pdf</a><br /><br />Bitcointalk ANN: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2286102.0\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2286102.0</a><br /><br />Authored by: donniedarko<br />Bitcointalk url: <a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051</a>",
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"content": "\nSo, what is Syncfab? It is a supply chain management tool that will allow you to procure track and organize your local parts production so you can source something like CNC machining or welding near you. Initially it'll be for the USA and I’m sure they've got aspirations of going global. If you don't know what is CNC is, it’s actually computer numerical control it just means use these machines to cut and manufacture parts. Basically, using a computer to control the cutting etc. As far as the competition goes I don’t believe there is any for this particular ICO and that's a really good selling point for me. They are pretty unique, there are not going to be any other companies coming out trying to do a blockchain for this kind of supply chain management which is good. They've obviously identified finding parts manufacturers as a big problem in the USA in particular and if you can’t find them in the US, it's going to be a difficult globally as well. Even a quick google turned up and quite a few results for individual companies but no real platform that you could get your parts manufactured on. You'd have to go through the lengthy process of contacting each company individually, telling them your requirements, getting a quote. Typical way that business has been conducted previously before blockchain technology came along. This technology could be quite disruptive for the industry if they can implement and as far as I am aware they don't have any competition even centralized or decentralized so that’s a big bonus for them.\n\nThe problems they want to solve, first off, it's very difficult for small businesses to get anything manufactured. Basically, manufacturers prefer larger order so they prefer large companies and this doesn't allow smaller innovators or entrepreneurs, smaller manufacturers to get involved. It's very difficult, it’s expensive, it really is time-consuming and annoying. I used to work a company related to that in Berlin so I know, I've got experience and we used to have to really search high and low for companies that were willing to fabricate a stuff for us. It's difficult, it is a pain and this app, this blockchain, this project should hopefully go somewhere to making it a lot easier for small business to access parts manufacturer. The other thing is there's opaque procurement process and again there's no visibility, there's no transparency using the blockchain will obviously solve that. 31 percent of buyers they say, finding the right manufacturing supplier has been a problematic issue. I completely agree with that. I think that’s your first point of contact always going to be on the internet. You google, you might not find anything, you might have to search for a long time on the internet to find something that might even be suitable for what you're looking for. And then you’ve got to contact them, maybe visit the factory, it's very difficult. Another problem they see is outdated technology so current tech and manufacturing processes are outdated they say. Inefficient product procurement processes account for a yearly loss of 1.5 billion in revenue within North American businesses. It's the old world isn't it, fallen company up, the purchase orders being sent paper, it really is antiquated and now we have the blockchain technology hopefully this will all go away. The other problem and the final one is little to no IP protection. So, there's no protection for your intellectual property. If you've got a factory and get something made it can be easily stolen or copied. And it says, thirty nine percent of businesses have experienced a breach in the last 12 months. That's not surprised and of course having the immutable ledger and the blockchain will go some way in protecting that and curbing that problem.\n\nThe aims of Syncfab are to provide supply chain platform that is tokenise, incentivizes people to use it. They're obviously going to use the blockchain, public blockchain and a private blockchain as well. They're going to have an app that will allow people to find manufacturing plants or find parts manufacturers. So, it’ll be a lot easier than the current model which is very tedious and time-consuming and annoying. And that will be eliminated so you won't have to use any intermediaries, there will be no third parties, you'll be going straight to the manufacturers getting help easily and hopefully being able to get your equipment manufacturer. Obviously, this is initially focused on computer numerical control machining and milling, welding as well but obviously you could see this being applied to a lot broader applications within the industry. They are going to connect you directly using the app and this is going to be a benefit to the manufacturers as well as they will get customers straightaway. It will all be done through smart contracts on the blockchain so you might not have to worry about getting paid and it will really improve and potentially be a big disrupter to this industry.\n\nIf we look at the global market, we've got 500-billion-dollar potential market and that’s for global precision metal fabrication. When I say precision metal fabrication, we're not talking about some blacksmith banging, a metal on an anvil. We're talking about machining, milling and the CNC machining. Almost like a niche within the metal fabrication or other fabrication. You also have welding and numerous other different metal fabrication techniques, casting, forging etc. and that's just for precision metal fabrication. 75 billion for the us machining and metal stamping market alone. That is phenomenal and we use metal everywhere, you'd be very surprised actually how much industry is geared towards or around metal manufacturing inspection and maintenance. It really is a phenomenal amount of money. And California alone where they are located in Silicon Valley, 9.5 billion from machine shops in California receipts alone and that's working at a 50% capacity they're not chugging away a hundred percent.\n\nWebsite: blockchain.syncfab.com\n\nTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/syncfab/\n\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/syncfab/\n\nTelegram: https://t.me/syncfab\n\nWhitepaper: https://blockchain.syncfab.com/SyncFab_MFG_WP.pdf\n\nBitcointalk ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2286102.0\n\nAuthored by: donniedarko\nBitcointalk url: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1720051",
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