Using Blockchain to reduce the billions in waste created by the gift card market status quo: $24 — $32 Billion Destroyed

Thank you Harry

You know, I think I fundamentally confused "services" as it was intended for thread taxonomy. I thought it meant "this is where you post to talk about blockchain that will perform a service". Even then it might not be the best fit. What I now understand is that it's for posting about offering services (marketing, Dev, etc,). I'd be happy to take it down if it's truly miscategorized.

As for the contradiction. I'm not sure that's how I'd categorize what you're describing. But let me give you some subtext here. I was sort of approaching it like how Stephen Colbert would interview the author of a book he enjoyed. Warm introduction with some background and that sort of thing.

Also, the 'full disclosure" part wasn't actually for the point of distancing myself from the project but rather merely stating that I'm not associated with the project directly. As opposed to someone who works for them for example. This sort of thing is fairly Common Place and it's for the sake of transparency, as opposed to hedging my words.

Had I been a large token holder for example I would have said that, or if they were a client of mine or something, I would have said that. Again I was just going for transparency.

I hear what you're saying and maybe my tone was a little too praiseworthy, but it was my honest opinion and I can stand behind that. Many of the projects I see in blockchain are not very interesting to me at all but these guys were an exception.

I hope that makes what I was trying to communicate a little clearer but I appreciate you mentioning it because that'll only help me be a better part of the bitcointalk community. Cheers!

The chat begins soon: 10PM EST | 7PM PST | UTC: 2018-03-06 — 03:00:00

I'll be hosting the talk here on Reddit: (https://www.reddit.com/r/icocrypto/comments/82ath8/reddit_fireside_chat_tonight_featuring_jonathan/). I'll be speaking with Jonathan Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-lee-92b158/), Co-founder of 300cubits (TEU token) (https://300cubits.tech/). We'll be talking about their token sale, the problem they are trying to solve, their go-to-market strategy, and so much more.

The fireside chat will take about an hour, followed by on-going Q&A.

For those who aren't aware, 300cubits (TEU token) is tackling the no-show booking problem within the container shipping industry. This issue costs the industry roughly $23 billion annually.

I am Charlie Muir(https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-muir/) and I'm the founder of a [Suspicious link removed]pany that is building a dApp to bring liquidity to unwanted gift cards. I've been working in tech for several years and I follow the startup ecosystem intently.

Jonathan Lee has a combined 20 years experience in banking as head of Treasury and dealing at several banks including China Construction Bank, Coutts & Co, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and UBP.

I recently met Jonathan on /r/icocrypto and the entirety of our correspondence can be seen on these threads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/icocrypto/comments/81rpx5/what_is_your_favorite_place_to_launch_an_ico/
https://www.reddit.com/r/maritime/comments/7ux7wg/httpswww300cubitstechshippersignup/

I'm very interested in 300cubits' mission and I am very curious about their go to market strategy, and their long term playbook. The team has a solid background in container shipping and banking and I'll be asking some very specific questions. I anticipate a pretty interesting discussion. IMO this conversation will be very far from a "shillfest."

Please visit the TEU/300cubits website (https://300cubits.tech/) where they have more info on the company including their white paper, their approach to the problem, and their upcoming token sale. They also have 2 short videos which fairly well encapsulates what they are working on.

We'd love for you to join us live or check back in the next chance you get. Hope to see you there!

FULL DISCLOSURE:
I have no financial interest in TEU or 300cubits, with the exception of having completed their shipper signup form which will include some free TEU tokens in the future. I am not being compensated in any way for hosting this discussion — it's purely a thought exercise; talking shop so-to-speak

I heard a radio advertisement for home mortgage refinancing that said "fix up your house, invest in the stock market, buy the bitcoin dip"  — oh boy; this is going to get ugly.

The chat begins soon: 10PM EST | 7PM PST | UTC: 2018-03-06 — 03:00:00

I'll be hosting the talk here on Reddit: (https://www.reddit.com/r/icocrypto/comments/82ath8/reddit_fireside_chat_tonight_featuring_jonathan/). I'll be speaking with Jonathan Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-lee-92b158/), Co-founder of 300cubits (TEU token) (https://300cubits.tech/). We'll be talking about their token sale, the problem they are trying to solve, their go-to-market strategy, and so much more.

The fireside chat will take about an hour, followed by on-going Q&A.

For those who aren't aware, 300cubits (TEU token) is tackling the no-show booking problem within the container shipping industry. This issue costs the industry roughly $23 billion annually.

I am Charlie Muir(https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-muir/) and I'm the founder of a company that is building a dApp to bring liquidity to unwanted gift cards. I've been working in tech for several years and I follow the startup ecosystem intently.

Jonathan Lee has a combined 20 years experience in banking as head of Treasury and dealing at several banks including China Construction Bank, Coutts & Co, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and UBP.

I recently met Jonathan on /r/icocrypto and the entirety of our correspondence can be seen on these threads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/icocrypto/comments/81rpx5/what_is_your_favorite_place_to_launch_an_ico/
https://www.reddit.com/r/maritime/comments/7ux7wg/httpswww300cubitstechshippersignup/

I'm very interested in 300cubits' mission and I am very curious about their go to market strategy, and their long term playbook. The team has a solid background in container shipping and banking and I'll be asking some very specific questions. I anticipate a pretty interesting discussion. IMO this conversation will be very far from a "shillfest."

Please visit the TEU/300cubits website (https://300cubits.tech/) where they have more info on the company including their white paper, their approach to the problem, and their upcoming token sale. They also have 2 short videos which fairly well encapsulates what they are working on.

We'd love for you to join us live or check back in the next chance you get. Hope to see you there!

FULL DISCLOSURE:
I have no financial interest in TEU or 300cubits, with the exception of having completed their shipper signup form which will include some free TEU tokens in the future. I am not being compensated in any way for hosting this discussion — it's purely a thought exercise; talking shop so-to-speak

I know that the subject line will come as no surprise to many of you, but the scale of cost for an ICO might be for others who have not been in the driver's seat.

I'm hoping to get some advice from people who have run a successful ICO (or are doing so now) wrt how they were able to get early funding from outside of their immediate circle to pay for the build up to an ICO. Pre-pre-ICO funding, of you will.

I think that I may be able to learn from the stories of some folks about their very first capital raise for crypto.

Thanks for reading,
Charlie Muir

Hello BCFers,

Brifs.co is a gift card balance market and exchange powered by smart contracts.

We've built a fully operational business and our presale just went live as well

Check us out if you are curious: http://Brifs.co

Cheers,
Charlie Muir
Founder

I'm new so if there's a dynamic here that I'm unaware of am not adhering to, that's probably why. feel free to dm me if i violate some norms.

That said, @Spoetnik i understand your sentiment, but I'm not sure I agree with your assessments.

While the atmosphere around ICOs is erratic, that is the natural state of something as fundamentally innovation as the blockchain is technologically and by extension economically. The blockchain and smart contracts are potentially so deflationary that, within the broader contexts of machine learning and globalization, their impact over even the next 10 years is unforeseeable.

The ICO ecosystem is erratic because it's going to create a lot of winners and losers, in terms of incumbents vs. newcomers.

Are we in a cryptoassst bubble?
Yes.

Will it boom and bust many more time before global adoption stabilizes the cryptoassst ecosystem
You can bet on it.

Are smart contracts, and by extension ICO-created cryptoasssts going to achieve global ubiquity?
There's no doubt. It's infinitely better than the status quo for just about every type of transaction.

Are ICOs chock full of scammers?
Yes, but they are nothing more than background noise to folks who see the fundamental value in the blockchain and are building actual product on top of it to possibly make a dent in the world.

Shouldn't this all be illegal for the sake of the blockchain's reputation
It already is. There doesn't need to be any new laws for fraud and embezzlement. All crooks are doing is run-of-the-mill white-collar crime. The ICO is just a new canvas upon which the artist paints their con — it's still the same same painting (if you will).

Will the scammers bring us all down?
For a time, but this too will pass just like it did after the first dot com bubble. Many more people will go to prison this time though. Just like now, in the first dot com there were irrational valuations that baselessly spiraled higher and higher before burning out and going to zero. The difference is that the blatant SEC violations and fraud were no where near the levels they are currently in cryptoassets, at that time in the late-90's/early-2000's.

Anyway, sorry for the rant but I truly believe in cryptoassets. Do I want to do well in the ecosystem? — Yeah sure, but that's not the only reason and that doesn't negate all the other reason's why I or anyone else would be interested in ICOs and crypto more broadly.

My advice to anyone who believes like I do that crypto is going to change everything and is building that change...
Keep your head down on your projects and ignore the BS hype. Have a plan for reducing your burn rates because when the bottom falls out of the cryptoasset market, and it certainly will, your team is going to need to have a long enough runway to see your way to sustainability or a market turn around. Sadly, most projects will not make it through the coming storm. Plan for it.

@whale123 gives a pretty decent breakdown of how the actual mechanics of a basic presale are easily replicated. That said, I think the OP's question is too broad to respond to meaningfully. Anyone can post an Ethereum address on a website an tell people to send ETH to it as a presale.

Getting the community's attention in such a crowded space enough to where you actually can fund a worthy project, and then having the skills ability to actually ship product is where the work is. There's no shortcuts there and BS won't get you very far.

Anyway just thought I'd weigh in,
Cheers