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Interesting -- tourism and blockchain!

Have you heard about NEO based Travala?
How is Meerkat different from Travala?

Thank you so much ! The Have Fun Customer Support will get in touch with you soon. Until then fell free to join our telegram group so we can chat live !  ;)

Thank you so much we highly appreciate your listing !  ;D We will be in touch soon for sure !

All the best to the Trackico Team !!

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since the token is designed for local merchants, i want to ask if the ico is success on which country that the project run first?

Hi and thank you so much for being here. In fact we storngly believe in multicultural tourism being the key for mass crypto adoption.

I have checked the Travala website and whitepaper. I generally encourage every project that is trying to utilize the potential in tourism. However it has very littel to do with our project. Sure we have accomodation partners but it is not the core of our business. Local merchants are more of a target (restaurants, cafeterias etc.).

Travala seems to compete with Booking and similar giants. I dont say it is impossible to beat them with the blockchain but a booking site is much harder to operate under decentralized conditions. Anyway I hope then can succeed with their approach. Any legit project can help at this point.  ;)

Hi there and thank you so much for your support in advance. I will forward your mesage to our Marketing Department in Spain. They will get in touch with you as soon as possible.

Also feeel free to ask un in the meantime here or join our Telegram group to chat live !  ;D

Hi there thank you so much for being here. Yes it is still available. Let me pass on your details to our Marketing department to get back to you the soonest.

Also thank you for your questions about the starter countries. These are:

Spain and Hungary.

Both countries are already available for consumers to utlitze their Meerkat Tokens.

The upcoming countries are: Italy and Austria.

These will be available for Meerkat users by the end of September.

For your information Meerkat Tokens Acceptance Points will be available only in the geographical area of the European Union. American and Asian branches wont be live before 2019 Q3. 

Hello,

I like the concept as I am deeply involved in the industry myself. Happy to see more projects targeting the masses of tourists with such tech. However I have a brief question about the FIAT exchange for merchants. As i understand you basically buy their tokens back in case of a price decline? Isnt it a high risk for the firm ? I mean I understand that youre willing to eliminate volatility but am trying to understand the economics behind it.

Hi there! Thanks for dedicating your very first comment to us. :o Assuming youre not working for a competitive project there is no secret I can tell you. Because there is no secret in our token economics. Our company the Have Fun Corporation is basically a tourist guide and advertisement services agency.

To keep it short with concrete numbers a usual merchant pays roughly 3000 USD per month for our advertising spaces both in our quarterly magazine and downloadable app. So as you can imagine we make a reasonable income on merchant contracts. Therefore we are not worried to buy back our tokens if necessary. As it is emphasized in the whitepaper our business model is based on the idea that price volaitlity can not be a problem for a merchant. Otherwise they just refuse to accept crypto and thats it. Volatility is a real barrier for crypto and it has to be address honestly for businesses. Hopefully our project can contribute to that.  ;)

Also I got to forgot that I have opened the excel sheet Travala provides about actual destinations. There are like a hundred addresses yet all of them are in Vietnam. Sure its a nice place but can be challenging to operate from there. Just wanted to bring your attention on that weird fact. Allthough it could be as legit as ours.  ::)

Hello,



I still don't know if your economical model is feasible in the lung run, but I am willing to bet my time on your project...

I would like to register myself for a Romanian translation (if it helps your team).




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Hello, And thank you for your application. Allow me to pass your details to our Marketing department. As far as I know the romanian translation is still suitable.

Regarding your concern I would like to reflect shortly. The economical cycle is this: 16% of Tokens will be owned by Merchants (merchant private sale starts along with the public sale). Thats a big chunk of the total supply already. Merchants are directly incentivized to hold their Tokens. Which they obviously will as demand goeas up. Thats the easy scenario. We work for this of course.

However we have to be preapared for price corrections and this topic has to be addressed correctly. For example these days people do buy the rumors and sell the news. So you have to be prepared that if you come out with a new exchange listing news that can drive the price down instead of increasing it. Happens in crypto. All right. But merchants have to know about this they have to be informed how our community works and reacts to certain things. This is why crypto could be scarry to general businesses. They dont even understand the hectic price actions. Someone has to explain them honestly.

In short we know our business and we know our financial limits. We accept high-class merchants only meaning that they have to be in their field for at least 5 years and we have a longer list of metrics where we evaluate our partnerts anyway. Obviously the higher the income of a merchant the less likely that it will sell Tokens for less then what they bought it for. Also most of our merchants have some investment strategy on their own. Most of them are actually pretty familiar with the stock market. These merchants wont panic in case of a dip. But on the other hand we have to show confidence in our project buy making a contractual promise that if nooone else is willing to buy their Tokens, at least the issuer will.

Again price volatility is something that we are used to in crypto. Most of the general businesses wont accept it. They will gladly accept an increasing value but not the decrease. I mean they wont tolerate a -10% dip in one day thats for sure. So we can decide whether to face this and say I am confident and you can count on me. Or we wont make it through to mass adoption.

IMPORTANT !

Please do not send us schill offers in PM.

We do not and will never have a bounty program. Neither we will have Airdrops.

Investor protection is first.

We wont throw free Tokens all over the place to decrease its value in return for some fake hype.

If you have an offer you may post it under the official thread so our marketing can see it.

Thank you for understanding !  :P

Hello,

Thank you for your offer. Our Spain based Marketing Department will evaluate the offers and get in touch with you soon !

Best,

Meerkat Team

If there is no bounty campaign, the only way to get your tokens is to invest? Oh, my God
there are indeed projects that don't have a prize campaign but sales reach hardcap, but in my opinion it's rare

Hi man,

You are totally right it is rare but I have a very simple explanation for this. You might find it interesting.

FACT:

Any bounty supported ICO is automatically considered as SECURITY by the US SEC. I assume you know what that means for an ICO in the long run. Trouble.

Meerkat is a pure utility Token and we simply cannot risk to loose this aspect.

On the other hand bounty and airdrop tokens are subject to immediate sale after the first exchange listing. Thats why most ICO loose value after reaching the markets. By the time they get listed they already issued thousands of Tokens to random bounty participants. Those Tokens will be sold the soonest I can assure you that. You can see this if you check hystorical exchange release data of most ICOs. Sure the lack of bounty can decrease our marketing exposure but still we are ok with that. Investor interest is first bro.

I think you will be interested in investors with your project. You have a well-developed marketing comany, a well-designed website. but why on this page there was little activity on the part of the participants, and on the part of managers. few ask questions. why so.

Dear Margary,

Thank you so much for your kind words.

The reason why our management is not really involved in here (and other social media) is because they are extremely busy with merchant negotiations for the Private-Sale period (which will run simultaneously with Public-Sale).

On the other hand I have to say that the top management are not blockchain experts. They are experts of tourism, advertising and finance. Their job is to push mass adoption forward by keep doing what they do which is getting there phisically and negotiate in person. The crypto aspect of the business is handled by devs only. For example this is why we resist all schill/bounty initiatives. We told the management that we shall stand of out the ICO crowd by not doing any sintethic pumps. Bottom line is we are responsible for crypto and crowd-sale. The management is responsible for actual business and private-sale. However you can talk to them via our telegram group. They are all there watching :)

I know some several project provide the service for the package matching with block chain. Project success in the last time is Locktrip.
Mặc dù concept concept of two project is different different but but same as a field, so MEERKAT must be against a different tranh.
I have join on ICO Locktrip and now to follow MEERKAT, if the best development will be see a join.
Waiting update ...

Hi Alan and thank you so much for joining the discussion.

I have to say there is kinda big difference between our project and the one you mentioned. To me it seems that they are totally focusing on travel accomodation. It is like 10% of our business. We have a few hotels in our merchant portfolio but it is not in our focus at all. We are targeting local merchants (restaurants, bars, cafeterias and popular sightseeing destinations.
Going for accomodation can be pretty hard I think. I mean you have to compete with giants like Booking. Now I know how we all like to say that everything is better on a blockchain. However accomodation reservation is a difficult story. There you cannot make mistakes because if I travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers and then end with a false or invalid reservation I will be in big trougle right? I think thats why Booking is so popular. They have a superior customer service. They have built in guarantees, free cancellation and stuff. These are all very important customer protection features. You can try to compete with it but who said it would work better on a blockchain. It probably wont.

Bottom line is not every industry is easy to adopt with crypto. Not every database works better on a blockchain. I thnik it is very important for crypto startups to focus on areas where they can "easily" succeed. Beating a great service provider like Booking is not an easy task. That why we dont aim for these hights. :)

I like this explanation very much. This is really important for an ICO to be transparent as much as possible.

Of course, your explanation @meerkatoken about bounty campaign caught my attention because I am in crypto almost from the beginning and never heard that a token is seen as an security because of bounty campaign, accordingly to the SEC rules. Like I said this is something new for me and if possible I would like to know the source of this information.

Keep reading about Meerkat and I see this working but don't forget about a desktop app or to add a possibility to login and operate from laptop or desktop not limit your product to the app only, I personally think this is a big mistake. Still, a lot of people don't use them and sometimes I experienced a problem when there was no possibility to interact with the product because of the app (working only on IOS).

Dear WW,

Thanks so much for your remarks. I would like to shortly reflect to the issues you raised.

Desktop app:

To be honest we havent think about to launch such at all. The main reason being the fact that our management is negotiating with merchants for more than a year now. All of them are interested in our project beacuse there is a mobile payment system they can use without any modification in their current systems. In fact our project is pretty useless without the audio guide app as this is the only tool to lead crypto customers directly to our merchants. Otherwise they wont find each other so... you get the point. :)

SEC security issue wiht bounty programs:

It is not a surprise that you havent heard of this as it is THE BIGGEST current issue with 99% of ICOs. You can find articles on this as some expert covered this already in major articles yet it is something noone want to talk about (even if you think you invested in a utility token, it ends up being a security investment if there was a bounty).

The short explanation is:

So their idea is based on the Howey Test. The SEC’s Howey Test labels a transaction an investment contract (and, most likely, a security) if “profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party,” which almost always occurs when a project is promoted as part of a bounty program, and free token means there’s an implied expectation of profit. These guidelines indicate all bounty-promoted tokens are securities

I know it seems very bad news but this is the reality noone wants to consider. We do. :)

Hi everyone! Just added this incredible ICO to my website   https://findico.io/ico/meerkat   Findico.io is a free ICO listing and rating platform. Blockchain community supported by a wide range of experts. Airdrops, Bounties, Exchanges, ICO services and many more.

Hello,

Thank you so much for adding our Token to your website. It is highly appreciated that you do such work and spending your own time for adding us. More proactive people like you could help the community to grow.

Best wishes,

Meerkat Team

Guys,

I've found the original article about the SEC - ICO Bounty issue. Please evaluate for yourself:

https://hackernoon.com/rest-in-peace-ico-bounty-programs-fc1e1e04e867

The ticker "MCT" is already in use by another coin.

Your team is amazing at being invisible. It seems that either none of you have ever done anything or surfed the web in you lives, or you do not exist. What gives?

Yeah you're right, its Master Contract Token (MCT). He appeared only this month. Not attentive in the future can make a mistake, since Master Contract Token this NEP-5 token from NEO chain and MEERKAT this ERC20 token.

Yes, unfortunately it has owned by another project. why they don't know about it. so now, only one solution, It seems they must change the token symbol. MERK is a better choice I think since no project has that abbreviation yet. 

Hello and thanks for the heads up. We know about it its on another blockchain. Anyway tickers can be the same for many projects. One day we will run out of 3 digit tikers anyway :)

Hey we know about this but we wont change our abbrev for the Token as its on a different chain. Ours is the only ERC20 with this symbol so should not be a problem. Anyway I believe investors dont make such an easy mistake mixing up totally different projects based on their abbrevs... It could be a problem on tradingview for pairs trading but thats another story.

Hey thanks and as other addressed we know about this but it doesnt matter since that other token runs on NEO. If you have an ERC20 compatible wallet like myether than the only MCT you will find there is Meerkat. Should not be a problem. I personally invest in projects that I dont even remember the symbol of from the top of my mind. But I do remember the name of these projects. Dont make any action based on symbols.  ;)

Dear delarey,

What do you mean by being invisible ? Our company is a leading toursit guide / advertising agency. As discussed earlier on this thread the management of this firm is not made of blockchain experts. It is four of us working on this from the blockchain perspective. Everbody else has nothing to do with blockchain development except for using crypto on a daily basis.
i can also tell you that we are one of the most transparent projects out there. We dont use schills, fake comments, fake followers, fake articles, bounties nothing like that. Exactly because we do everything transparent. We dont use tricks to fool our investors.
This is in fact our first blockchain project. You wont find any ICO history from us as we dont jump from one project to another. We are dedicated working on this and this only. Since we posted the announcement yesterday evening what you can find is all we have right now. Our external coinzilla marketing campaign will start next week. Believe me we are as transparent as possible. Unless you are willing to see my facebook. Thats not gonna happen bro I have some pictures from the past not being appropriate  ::) ;D

Have the project an Instagram? I really like this!

Meerkat trying to make a breakthrough by making the possibilities for cryptocurrency to used as payment method in real world application.
In the future we would be able to utilize this token/coins easily to makes everyday payment.

Dear inflr,

Thank you so much for being here. The company itself doesnt have an instagram, but the magazine editor branch office has.

You can find it here: https://www.instagram.com/havefunbudapest/

meerkatoken, do you have a plan to have an ecosystem consisting from supporters of Meerkat project? I think it should be there. The ecosystem will have an important influence to help the project be developed later.

I assume we talk about the price volatility pegged to $, which brings me to my concern: This system works if the coin can be used outside of the closed ecosystem. I don't understand why a merchant would complicate his life dealing with the market, considering he still uses $ for his daily purchases.

If this would be adopted by, let's say, a super-market brand, I see how it would work, because the token becomes useful for buying daily necessities, but again, why would a business do that outside of a possibility for the value of the token to increase in price. If the $ is stable, using a token seems like an extra headache.

To sum it up, I don't know how many people with business share our view regarding the long term instability of $, they just care about having a working business, from which he can withdraw profits in whatever currency that is used somewhere else.  

Hi there !

Thanks for your constructive comment and in fact you are totally right. Your point is that why any merchant would accept crypto if not for future prcie gains. This is a really good question and in fact it could have been a weak point of our project. Or any crypto project really.

Here is our answer: An diverse audio guide application that leads crypto customers directly to the premises of the acceptance point. So the short answer is we guarantee new customers to show up with crypto. You are totally right wihtout this aspect not many merchants would be interested. In fact the management gets this objection all the time. Merchants refuse to accept crypto becuse they say noone has ever wanted to pay with crypto in their shop. So why would they accept it ? From who ?

That is why we came up with this business model. Your question leads to the main pourpose of our application! Very important question thank you.  8) 

Hi Okky,

What do you mean exactly by an ecosystem of supporters ? Sorry but everything is called an "ecosystem" these days which is a buzzword for sure but I dont see the real meaning of it. Our "ecosystem" consists of an application, a printed advertising magazine and the Token itself. We have a dozen of professional tour guides responsible for phisical engagement with users.
So what supporter ecosystem do you mean ?
A bounty program ?

I think you will be interested in investors with your project.
You have a well-developed marketing comany, a well-designed website.
Why on this page there was little activity on the part of the participants, and on the part of managers.

Hi and thanks for joining !

The exact same question had been asked a couple of posts ago.
Please refer to that section for your answer.

Total 10.000.000 MCT token;
70 % for crowd sale
14% for fun coop
16% for merchants
Full token price : 1 ETH : 7200 MCT
Pls let me know if I missing something!

Hello profall,

You dont miss anything this is it.  ;)

If you have any token economics question please dont hesitate. Also you can join our Telegram Group to chat with us live.

Well built project and active community on telegram, anyone knows the information regarding the 1st round of presale?

Hi Rowane,

Thanks for joining our discussion.

The first round Pre-Sale is scheduled as follows:

20.08.2018-26.08.2018

You can find the full ICO schedule on our website !

Feel free to ask us live on our Telegram Chat.

Hello

So as I understand the contract for merchants will swap your token to fiat... This means that the token price is fixed at a certain USD rate?

What is that rate? I can see the effort to erase volatility but it is a high risk for you to take in my opinion.

Looking forward to how it goes anyway.   ::)

Hi and thanks for joining.

The short answer is no. The merchant exchange conract does not operate with a fixed Token/Fiat rate.
We do not fix a USD rate. Instead the merchant issues an invoice to us for the sum Fiat+VAT value of goods being sold for Tokens.

This is totally different. And it is only likely to apply when Token price lowers significantly. Even then merchants are still insentivized to hold their balance. Anyway this is our merchant investor protection model. It is necessary as we have to address price volatility concerns of potential acceptance points.  ;)
 

ATTENTION !

A FAKE David Hay (youtuber) just joined our telegram chat. Our Admin has restricted the user forever but be aware guys. If anyone on our telegram pretends to be a famous youtuber asking for donations do not send them anything but malware.  >:( 
Report these accounts immediately to the Admin.

Thank you !

Hi profall,

Sorry man I missed the total amount you copied. It is not 10 million !!!

We need much more than that so the starter price can be low enough. Our token economics require a lower startpoint as we had to set up token supply according to the needs of merchants. This has to do with ideal token price for a 2 person meal in a restaurant and other practical considerations. You can find this detailed in the whitepaper. Bottom line is that the Total supply is:

10.000.000.000 MCT

Sorry for realizing this earlier and feel free to contact me on Telegram live. We are working during CET timezone working hours.

how are you going to reach those small merchants? sometimes, they don't need this kind of service. consumers can directly buy their goods without worrying that they need to pay for your services. it's like another layer that they will worry, instead of buyers directly in contact with them.

Hello,

Thank you for being here. You ask a very important question. Actually the core of your question was one of the key aspect of our project. So the question is how customers can find these small local merchants and vica-versa.

The answer:

A key element of our project is the downloadable Meerpackr application. It is a navigation app (basedon google maps) with a built in audio guide and collection of merchants. This application will lead crypto customers directly to the premises of the merchants. It is very important as this is why we can negotiate successfully with merchants. In many cases their first obejction is the fact that they have never seen a customer willing to pay with crypto before. Their obvious concern is that they dont know how to attract these customers so they dont veen think about accepting crypto. But when you telll them there is a navigation database that leads users directly to their shop thats a different story. We guarantee them totally new crypto customers every day. Sure they are only incentivized to accept any crypto if there are customers showing up with such request.

Please read our whitepaper carefully for more details on this matter. It is basically the most important aspect of the project. The navigation app is an absolute key to our success. Without the app it wouldnt work.
   

Our official SubReddit has been relesed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Meerkat_Token/

We will announce a signature campaign there in a few days if you are willing to participate in that.

Best,

Meerkat Team

Hi,

Last time I forgot to ask. It is the 3rd or 4th ICO I've seen that is trying to go for travellers. How is this different from stuff like Ethereum Travel ? Why do you think you can bring more utility than those guys ? It seems like all travel ICOs are trying to satisfy the same audience but with lack of real utility for the industry participants.
Also as of writing btc felt below 6500. You say you fight volatility. Seems to be hard even in the short-term. Correct me if am wrong...

Dear Meerkat users,

Our Community Manager has been kicked from BTT yesterday. The reason being copy-pasted content (According to him. We cannot officially confirm this.).

Today we have done all necessary steps to get back control of this Thread. However we cannot posess the email address that is associated with this Thread.
The associated email address (meerkXXXXen@gmail.com) is still under the control of the ex-Manager.
Therefore we kindly ask you not to send any PMs to the uploader of this Thread. Also do not use the given gmail address for any further communication.
We dont have Access to that email address and we wont receive those messages. Since we are not aware of the exact circumstances of the situation, we dont know if the ex-manager got kicked for a while or banned forever. Hence we would like to stress that if you receive any message or request from the ex-manager, it is not official and it is not coming from Meerkat Management.
According to the ex-manager this is just a temporary kick, however we have cancelled our contract with this person. According to our aggreement from now on he is not part of our team anymore and he doesnt have rights to represent our firm, even if he get back his access to this Thread.
We will try to discuss this with Admins to see if we can somehow get admin permission for the Thread.
If its not possible, than it is likely that we will open another Thread.
In this case you will find an official statement on our website and also you will be noticed via corporate email from us.
Sorry if this may lead to some inconvenience. It is very hard to find a reliable community manager as they are keep jumping from one project to another with several accounts.
We will solve this situation as soon as possible.
Until then we will reply and post updates from this account.
From now on please only send messages to the official mkt email address which is:

csanad@havefunbudapest.com  

You can also double check this matter if you wish by asking for official confirmation on that address.

Thank you for your understanding !

Meerkat CEE branch office

I'm glad that you inform us so fast. This is important to get access to this thread or just start a fresh one. Always better to have a control over your ANN thread.

As long as these markets haven't grown to globally significant sizes, there is now way to effectively fight volatility. Adoption is the only thing that will lower volatility in the future.

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I'm glad that you inform us so fast. This is important to get access to this thread or just start a fresh one. Always better to have a control over your ANN thread.
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Hello Mania,

Thank you so much for your kind words and understanding. It is a very inconvenient situation for but I saw on toher threads that it seems to be a common problem that community managers use random accounts and they dont care about content at all.

Anyway we are here to take care of our BTT community.

Dear Noruka,

Thank you so much. You are totally correct. The only way to consolidate volatility is to significantly increase the overall marketcap. However thats not gonna happen without mass adoption. So what we're trying to do is at least take away the volitlity issue from our merchants. We have to be able to address and take the price risk of our own currency in case of a price drop. Otherwise we cannot really convince any merchants to accept any crypto. Hopefully this approach will add to mass adoption soon.

Dear John,

Thank you so much we highly appreciate your work.

In fact some of our colleagues doesnt use linkedin but other alternative social platforms. Anyway yesterday we have requested every team member to upload or update thair linkedin profiles. We will include these details in your listing data as soon as possible. We will also inform you in our telegram group when it is done. You can expect this within 48 hours.

Thank you again and we will be in touch with the updates !  ;)

Best,

Mkt Team

Hi, you can find the community here: https://t.me/MeerkatChat  ;D

Dear Community,

Please find our last live presentation on our FB page.

You may turn on subtitles as well.

FB Link:

https://www.facebook.com/havefuncorporation

A week or two passed and there is no update or news from the team. Maybe there is a special bonus or other promotion ongoing worth to mention. I think such a long time with no news is a waste of time if you run fundraising.

!!!! MAJOR PROJECT UPDATE !!!!

Dear Community,

As Crypto mania pointed out in hes previous comment, our presence on bitcointalk was not too active in the last couple of days, so please accept our apologies and let us inform you about the current state of the project.

Crowdsale:

Starts on the 20th next Monday with 50% off on the first week. We are about to launch the crowdsale under extremely volatile ETH market conditions where both Alts and ETH are in danger of a further selloff as we believe money will keep bleeding to Bitcoin at least for a while. Anyway crowdsale is NOT our main source of income so we can go ahead with it as planned. Looking at market conditions it is likely that we wont be able to reach our initial goal of 400 ETH. However we would like to assure all of our investors that no matter how the crowdsale goes, we will keep working as our company runs independently from crypto. It is to say that a successful crowdfunding would help us a lot with our upcoming travel and even expenses abroad, but fortunately we dont depend on it business operation wise. So again crowdsale starts on the 20Th of August as planned.

Private sale:

This is the main reason why we were not quite active on forums like this. The Private sale start the same day as the Crowdsale and we had a lot of negotions with our Private investors. These are basically the following: Restaurant and bar owners, Hotel and Gostel operators, Local municipality branches for tourism. We spent pretty much the whole last month on negotiations with these partners. Their support is extremely crucial to the project as they are the ones (acceptance points) givig utility to the Token itself. Without the support of relevant tourism organization parties we woukd not have a real life usecase and would fell under securities as a consiquence. Fortunately we have an overall awesome acclaim from these parties. We basically already sold (actual sale start on the 20th) 15% of the 3 Billion Private sale tokens. Around 60% in Hungary and 40% in Spain (at the moment these are the two countries where we have HQs to negotiate phisically). Our PS live events can be found on our Facebook but you may turn on subtitles as those are not in english.

Tech Update:

We are in close partnership with IBM in general. They are not involved in our ethereum blockchain work at all, however they have a great interest in our tourism projects in general. As we had dozens of negotiations with industry leaders, it is clear that around 40% of companies doesnt think that the blockchain is secure. They seem to be afraid of public chains and would prefer private solutions instead. However they would still need to be able to interact with their clients directly so we had to think about this issue a lot. A week ago we made the decision that we will partner up with IBM to settle a second Meerkat blockchain that will have the same properties as this one, but it will run on IBMs Hyperledger platform. This way we can create a permission based Meerkat smart contract for companies looking for more secure blockchain solution. IBMs prestige is of course a useful sales tool for us as well. Hyperledger is capable of running the Meerkat Exchange Contract in its current form. Hyperledger is fully compatible with Solidity therefore Meerkat will soon become an interoperable Token with multichain features. We expect to carry out this development accordingly to our roadmap. 

Etherscan Update:

If you look up our contracts you will find that 100.000.000 MCT Tokens are transferred from the Private Sale Address (original balance of 3 Billion Tokens). We have transferred these Tokens to a newly created Private Sale dedicated address. We had to do this because of some Private Investors who never used crypto before and they couldnt or dont want to buy Tokens with ETH but rather with FIAT. It is not common and we always support our partners with their first wallet creation but some Investors are not even interested in ETH. They are mid/long term investors so they are not really interested in how they can swap MCT back to ETH or FIAT. So it is a good thing. These Investors are long term hodlers :)

This is it for now. Next week we will be busy with the launch of the IBM cooperation so once again you may feel that we are not active on social channels, but you can always find active community members in our Telegram chat. Many members are 100% up to date with what we do in the phisical world so feel free to ask them. The official IBM cooperation  will be announced later this month on every channel so expect us :)

Thank you for all the support and we keep up the hard work.

Best regards,

Meerkat Team

Hello Mania,

Thank you so much for your kind words and understanding. It is a very inconvenient situation for but I saw on toher threads that it seems to be a common problem that community managers use random accounts and they dont care about content at all.

Anyway we are here to take care of our BTT community.
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This is very good that you are serious about your ANN thread. I think that a professionally managed ANN thread is the best way to attract serious investors. BTT forum is still used to evaluate ICO's by experienced investors. I have to admit that I check this forum always when i evaluate an ICO.

Wish you luck.

This very good project is a loss if we don't join in joining this project with development and a reliable team, good luck.

It would be great to see more such short interviews with team.

This is good to be listed on this ICO pages for advertising but never pay for such listings because lately a lot of this services started to scam ICOs. They list your ICO and ask for money to change the listing rating to a higher one. This is just insane. Price depends from a service growth if they are big enough then you can await a lot higher fee.

I am very proud of the performance of this project, good luck until the target is set.

Among many other similar projects, this one I think is the most perspicacious, because the problem of ecosystems is very good now

Thanks for the heads up. Actually we have been bombarded by ICO listing sites but we dont really realy on them. Most of them would promote any ICO for money. Also they would give you 5 star ratings everywhere if you pay the minimum fee for that rating....

I will advise you to keep this thread clean and don't use any bumping services because is not needed and will only harm your project. Last few posts are already low quality and start to looks bad. Keep up good work OP and post frequent updates and announcements from the team and people will follow There is nothing more precious for an ANN thread as real discussion and involved high-rank members.

Dear,

Thank you so much for your comment but I dont see the point to it. We do not use any bump comments. As you can see random newbies are commenting with a few lines just to raise their reputation on the forum. It is a constant problem on BTT. If we would use bump comments then we would have hundreds of fake comment pages. Not 4 pages as we currently stand. So again we have nothing to do with these few fake comments. But it is not even comparable to the 90% of proejct here, where 95% percent of comment pages are fake and bumped for money by the owners of the token.

We dont work that way :)

We work quietly and not really focusing on these forums, telegram and other stuff. We build a a private investor database instead of dragging random people in intoa a shitty ICO.

Try to keep everybody informed just not here :)

Thanks again for your headsup

Dear shakawaski,

Thank you so much for your kind comment. Actually the ecosystems in the tourism sector are pretty good and efficient. The real problem there is the high fees solution providers are asking for. For example BOOKING is charging up to 30% for every offered accomodation. It is a very high fee but of course accomodation providers enjoy the ease of Booking's user friendly interface.

Our main goal is to offer the same services but for 2% commission instead of the market standard 20-30%.

But this is just the accomodation sector. We have a lot of other services in line you can find on our website and whitepaper.

If you have any question please feel free to ask.

Best,

Meerkat MKT