Hi

Yes. Recipients will be able to see senders number. It is impossible to hide it in Birdchain solution. BUT there are good news as well:

1) We will block incoming SMS and calls from recipients number to senders phone for 72 hours.
2) Birdchain will not send SMS to your contact list. We will use someone else's phone to reach your friends and family.
3) Companies will be obliged to clearly state who is sending the message.
4) We will send SMS from various phones and mix them all the time, so that receivers would not want to call.
4) There will be very little cases of such events, because How often do you want to call a number which sent you Google password authentication?

There are quite a few reasons for it:
1) we are operating the field of A2P SMS for almost 10 years
2) we already have SMS delivery technologies and solutions
3) app adaption will be quick as the app will provide monthly income
4) we have knowledge and know-how on the market players
5) we have good and smart people on board
6) our KYC was approved by governmental institutions
7) we are solving real-world problems
Birdchain is backed by real company
9) We are incorporated already
...
Many more

Thank you PArticipate in our ICO and help us to bring it to life: https://www.birdchain.io

We provide calculations of our 3-year financial expenses in the white paper: https://www.birdchain.io/assets/whitepaper.pdf. Pages 29-30.

If we will be sending the reports in the future, I can not tell right now. It has a lot of benefits and quite a few drawbacks as well.

The app and service are not developed yet. They will be developed on summer 2018.

Please contribute on our ICO and you will get the hottest news.

The price will depend on the speed you want your messages be delivered. Transactional SMS will cost a bit more as they need to be delivered much faster than promotional SMS>

Please check our White paper https://www.birdchain.io/assets/whitepaper.pdf

Simply, we are still in the first wave. We will be in the second wave when the soft cap is reached and then bonus will be 45 percent.

The leftover tokens will be distributed proportionally to all contributors. The ones who contributed the most, will receive the most of the left-over tokens.

KYC procedure and whitelisting were developed to protect Birdchain and your contribution. KYC is needed only if you contribute 2.5 ether or more. if you pass KYC and get whitelisted you wil be able to make a contribution. Nothing could stop you

The number of tokens is defined. There will no more tokens.

You will be able to "mine" tokens by selling your unused SMS

Our KYC check provider is Onfido. It is used in financial industry - for example, Revolut.

It checks your data and compares it with queries in various databases (Interpol, FBI and so on).

Yes, we do:

Wave 1 - Blockchain SMS Gateway & Basic IM App
A basic instant messaging app that will allow users to chat online (Instant Messaging) and offline (using
SMS). While in the background application is going to process transactional and promotional messages
in exchange for BIRD token.

Wave 2 - Full-Featured Instant Messaging App for Android
Upgrade of our IM app to a worldwide level a all-in-one communication app. Chat, play games, share
photos and videos.
• SMS/MMS/IM
• Voice and Video calls High-quality free calls to anywhere in the world.
• Photo and Video sharing
• Games
• Sticker gallery: Hundreds of free, fun, animated stickers to express your feelings from some of
your favorite cartoons and movies.

Wave 3 - Upgraded Blockchain SMS Gateway
Improvements in the bidding system. Users now will be able to see how many SMS are processed through
their phones, recommended pricing for an SMS, speed it takes to deliver one SMS and general reports.

Wave 4 - Video-ads Platform
Further improvements/expansions of our marketing platform. Integration of video-ads platform into our
IM. All app users will be able to watch these promotional ads in exchange for BIRD tokens.

Wave 5 - In-app Purchases
Third party developers will be able to offer exclusive content on our app for the users to spend their BIRD
tokens on. From access to specific news content to booking bus rides and flights.

Wave 6 - Live Video Streaming
Add to the IM platform a possibility to create a video streaming channels to which users could subscribe
and donate BIRD tokens for the content created.

Wave 7 Milestone - Voice Call Gateway
Extending the platforms capabilities by allowing users of the app to sell not only their SMS but also
leftover call time. Voice Call will enable companies reach their customers with a pre-recorded voice
message through a fully automated Online System.

Wave 8 - Personal Data Marketplace
 Possibility for the users to sell all or part of their personal data for the companies so that they could create
a more relevant promotions.

Wave 9 - Accelerated Scaling & Global Market Penetration Part 1
Focus not only on the development of the fantastic Birdchain App but also huge focus on attracting
business and end users.

Wave 10 - Accelerated Scaling & Global Market Penetration Part 2
An extensive global marketing campaign to spread a faster application adoption and business attraction
across the globe. This would include comprehensive online marketing efforts, face to face meetings and
conference attendances.

Hi, good question.

KYC is mandatory to contributors for over 2.5 ether. Under 2.5 ether KYC is not mandatory.

We are having KYC check to protect your contribution and our business. As you may know, anonimity may have negative impacts - money laundering schemes, terrorist financing, criminal activities and so on. These are the reasons why after ICO is completed authorities will contact us and ask where the funds came from. If we will not have proof (securely collected and stored information about you), the government can confiscate the funds, freeze accounts or do other anti-money laundering acts. Whatever they will do, it would mean that Birdchain will not be developed and your BIRDs are basically worthless.

We developed this KYC process with authorities. So, your contribution will be safe and we will deliver Birdchain on time.

Basically, all ICOs without KYC will get in trouble sooner or later and contributors in such ICOs are taking very big risk.

Thank you. My colleague will contact you.

As a seller of SMS you will not need to register an enterprise. Just download the app, set the number of SMS you want to sell and click "sending". That is it. You can test the process with our simulation app here: birdchain.io/download. Please read the text on the page

I do not see a reason why would you want to do it, but in general - yes. Regular people will be able to send out bulk SMS.

You will need to have a certain amount of BIRD tokens, a contact list of numbers you want to reach out and agree to our terms and conditions.

Just in case, I will announce this now: We will have SPAM and SCAM filters implemented. We use them today to deliver SMS globally.

Thank you Join our ICO and help us to develop this service and app

Hi, you have picked a very good topic.

We are planning to acquire our clients in mainly two ways.
1) Tenders (auctions) where the price is the main criteria to win. And we will win then because Birdchain will offer the lowest price.
2) There are companies that require exceptional quality in SMS delivery. Such as Western Union, MasterCard and other fintech companies. These companies are not interested in lower price - they need ultra high quality and security of data and they are willing to pay a higher price. To attract these companies to use Birdchain service, we will offer free BIRDs for them so they would test the quality of Birdchain service. As devilini mentioned - it is our marketing strategy. It is actually something like investing in attracting higher paying companies - which means higher earnings for our users.

Hi, we will inform about it our community members first. Please contribute, become part of our community and get the hottest news.