Thank you! Come join the conversation over on Slack www.hellobloom.io/slack

This is based on the fixed price of ETH at the opening of the crowdsale. The smart contract granted 1 ETH : 678 BLT, however we are issuing a 6.8% bonus to all participants to honor the lowest price we've published.

> What kind of smart contracts do you plan to use with this?

We're built on a number of smart contracts and IPFS. Please take a read through our roadmap and timeline here: https://blog.hellobloom.io/2017-2018-bloom-timeline-and-deadlines-8b5f4e7cb834

Here is our github with our token sale smart contract: github.com/hellobloom/crowdsale

> This is such an interesting project, and I have so many questions! They must be insanely busy over at Bloom though.


Very busy but happy to answer any questions!

> How do you plan to market Bloom post launch? I remember those freecreditreport.com commercials were insanely popular for a while lol.

We're working with a number of lending partners. https://blog.hellobloom.io/tagged/partnership These lenders already have streams of borrowers. In addition to this, we're going to invest a portion of our funds in go-to-market, this is described here. https://blog.hellobloom.io/how-bloom-will-use-funds-6c0c9eb4b738

> Will you support decentralized identity such as uPort or Civic? ie, how will this work with my governmental identity?

I don't think our attestation marketplace rules out the possibility of something like Civic or uPort hooking into our system and providing their services in a way that fits into the Bloom protocol as well. Owning the identity layer means it can mesh more tightly with other design considerations of the protocol. For example, right now the design includes providing your birthday, encrypting it, and attaching it to your BloomID. The Bloom protocol then uses this as a simple check when doing an peer stake (is John's birthday actually January 1, 1990?) and we can also require it be provided during an attestation that includes date of birth using the birth you provided on signup.

So while Civic and uPort could probably be mixed into our system without much pain, I don't think it would make sense to say "the identity layer is handled by X protocol we don't own" because identity is a broad concept.

> I don't think they have a bounty program here on the forum since they are focussing on different reward program like referral/contributors being rewarded.

This is right.

Thanks guys!

Thanks

The card is one of the first projects we are building. Meg, CEO of Shift Payments (who made Coinbase's Shift Debit Card) is one of our advisors. We'll be working to get the card deployed as soon as possible, targeting 2018.

Glad you like it!

Thanks for posting this!

Excited to join the discussion here on Bitcoin Talk, I am one of the co-founders of Bloom.

We're incredibly happy to share the news of our community whitelist and the upcoming token sale. Would love to get feedback from everyone here in this community.

Looking forward!