Brilliant article! Would you mind doing a followup article with some of the new announcements?

• Niall Horan is the Celebrity Brand Ambassador for MingoMessenger
• The pre-sale is extended until 23 October, 2017 to allow the new influx of investors to participate

Absolutely. We have some tricks up our sleeves and we're just pulling the trigger now. That being said, have you contributed yet? Mingo really is going to change the way the rest of the world uses cryptocurrency.

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We need more brilliant solutions like Lightning to make the blockchain a real viable solution for world-wide adoption.

This isn't so much true anymore. Pipe welders, contractors, salespeople, etc. can make way more money than a college education. Getting started early building your equity instead of spending it in an overpriced classroom that puts you in debt for the next 30 years is much more valuable.

My default response is that unless you are pursuing a profession in a regulated industry that requires college, find something else. Engineers, Doctors, Lawyers, etc, need degrees, but I think we sometimes undervalue on-the-job training and learning that can be obtained outside of college if the person is passionate about it.

My team of programmers win awards and hackathons against Stanford engineers all the time, and not one has so much as an associates degree (...okay...one just got an associates degree). But they live computer science. They work hard all day, then play on Github all night. We did a hackathon where they taught the Intel engineers who built the SDK a few things about how to use their own SDK. And they make pretty good money too.

I finished my college, and I'm glad I did because it gave me a broad understanding of my industry, but I didn't need it to get to where I am. I'm glad I did it, but I don't think everyone needs to just go.

Not necessarily. Fiat (at least in the US) is just a piece of really fancy paper. It's not backed by gold or any commodity. It's literally an IOU agreement. Crypto does that function better. There are 4 major challenges with crypto:

• Crypto has to represent value...thanks to traders it is starting to get that
• Crypto has to be accessible...it's picking up speed, but need more projects like Mingo (shameless plug)
• There needs to be a retail end-point (this fits w/ the value part), but bottom line, people need to be able to buy THINGS with it.
• Crypto needs to become stable with relationship to the THINGS we want to buy

Right now traders are speculating on speculation in the exchanges. The value of crypto is primarily driven by speculation. It's just too volatile. At some point crypto will either have to become adopted by a country to replace fiat, or it'll have to become so stable that fiat doesn't make sense (especially for cross-border transactions).

I'm reading a lot about academics and social skills...but I feel like school teaches a LOT about dealing with conflict. Kids are mean, but they learn boundaries and how to deal with boundary-crossers.

!!!NEW VIDEO!!! The 12-minute guide to participating in the Mingo Pre-sale.

 

Ew...no! Lol.

We are using a combination of Rust + ReactNative (+ Objective-C/Java where we need a real native performance...like w/ Telegrams encryptions!)

None of that Cordova/PhoneGap stuffs 

First day was 50% discount. We're in the 40% discount phase right now for 2 days.

3 weeks ago we had 20,000 active users in the previous 30 days. We're going to recheck post-presale because activity is growing during.

Brilliant coverage! https://cryptopotato.com/meet-mingo-multi-platform-messenger-wallet/

In a little over a day until the Pre-sale starts. 3pm UTC on September 25th, 2017. Be there!

That is correct. Advanced users can skip the tutorial completely and fully unlock advanced features. The cool part will be when you send your grandmother a MingoCoin and she gets the invite to download Mingo via her text messenger and walks through the tutorial. You now have a way to send grandma crypto!

We've been getting some great questions in our social groups. I figured we'd document some of the more complicated ones along with our answers.

For our sophisticated investors: https://medium.com/mingocoin/the-sophisticated-investors-guide-to-mingo-s-pre-sale-18941ec7cc56

Oh...please no! The purpose of Mingo is to simplify for the users. Get them in on the messenger, then sneak crypto into their life with fun achievements. BAM! New Crypto User!

Exciting news from a legit source: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/mingo-irish-crypto

Excellent question. Kik is actually complimentary to what we are doing. They are a single channel of communication. Mingo allows users to link their multiple channels in a way that they can see all of their messages from each contact in one feed, instead of jumping between apps or even jumping between tabs in the same app. It's literally one feed for each of your contacts regardless of how many that contact is connected to you through.

There may even be an opportunity to incorporate Kik into Mingo at some point. We're evaluating all of the major messaging channels in addition to the ones we already have.