I installed Bitcoin Full Node on Raspberry pi 3b+. Blockchain sync is dead slow because of less CPU. I Guess blockchain validation is time/CPU consuming thing. Is there a way to disable the validation and just download the chain? I understand the consequences. If my peers send wrong data, I will end up using wrong data. But I don't have an alternative. RPC calls are dead slow right now. I just need data to write some code.

We have come to a point where people who entered the market in Nov/Dec 2017 are starting to lose faith. Some of them are selling and some are still in the game but thinking about doing the same. This is because the crypto craze has reached it’s peak in that period and people were throwing money at any coin that was showing even a small sign of potential gains.

All of this fear of BTC never reaching it’s all time high again is causing the price to drop and it will probably continue doing so until at least one crypto project finds mass adoption. Will it be Ethereum or Bitcoin or some other coin, we can’t know. Ripple has the biggest chance right now since they are the only ones trying hard to sell their product to banks and money transfer agencies.

To keep this answer short, I think BTC will go a lot bigger than 20k but time is a big factor now. The media won’t talk as much about BTC until it starts growing again but it can’t grow without media coverage. Mass adoption will bring new investors in, this will alert the media and if crypto finds a place in our everyday lives you can expect BTC to go a lot over $20k. I personally believe that it can hit close to a million per coin but only if cryptocurrencies as a whole become adopted worldwide. If they fail at mass adoption we could see BTC going back to hundreds of dollars or even less.

Some people believe that hoarding hurts the Bitcoin economy.

But are they really right?

As long as corresponding goods vendors and services will be here to stay and reinforce people's faith in Bitcoin, hoarded bitcoins simply do not take part in daily business and do not hurt anyone.

Quite the contrary, they will decrease the supply of bitcoins in active circulation, thus increase the demand for bitcoins, and thus raise their over-all value, right?

Update: This question also comes with a premise or insight that Bitcoin "power users" have savings and spendings wallets or similar setups, and that those two forms of wallets will not tend to "compete" with each other so much. The bitcoins in the spendings wallets will rather compete with the fiat money that respective users will use to buy for goods and services. The bitcoins in the savings wallets will rather compete with more traditional forms of assets and investments.

Reditt Campaign


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You tube Campaign

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Week 1

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Will Token is starting its official Bounty Program in order to reward supporters who help Will Token to reach out to more people on the internet. The Program will run until the end of Token Sale. A total of 3% out of the total supply of about 250 Million tokens are reserved for bounty Campaign.

Total Bounty Pool will be divided as follows:




Will Token awards writers, bloggers, journalists and video editors with Will tokens for publishing quality content about our project.

Payment
15% of Bounty tokens are allocated for this bounty.


Blogs & Articles about Will Token

You can write and publish blogs or articles, in any of the Listed languages, of at least 275 words containing at least two links to the Will Token Website. Both links to the Website need to be properly referenced and related to the content of the blog post or published article.

Medium
100+ Followers - 1 Stake
250+ Followers - 4 Stakes
500+ Followers - 10 Stakes
1000+ Followers - 20 Stakes
5000+ Followers - 50 Stakes
Effort : Only 1 Article Per week Per account is allowed


Steemit
10+ USD in the End OF ICO - 1 Stake
25+ USD in the End OF ICO - 4 Stakes
50+ USD in the END Of ICO - 10 Stakes
100+ USD in the End of ICO - 20 Stakes
300+ USD in the End of ICO - 50 Stakes
Effort : Only 1 Article per week per account is allowed


Freelance Bloggers
1 Stake Per Unique Content


Rules
1. Follow Medium.
2. The content Should be high quality & meaningful.
3. Tags & Topic for Article Publication should be around cryptocurrency, ICO, and blockchain.
3. You may publish your article on any Cryptocurrency/Blockchain related channel/collection apart from your
profile and if the followers of that channel/collection exceed the followers on your own profile, then the Stakes
will be calculated according to the number of followers of that particular channel/collection.
4. Articles removed from the channel/collection before the end of the ICO will not be considered.
5. Duplicate Content will lead to disqualification from the Bounty program.
6. Only 3 posts of a person are accepted on these platforms.
7. The article or description of the video must contain at least 1 link to our website and 1 link either to the
Whitepaper or to the official ANN thread. The article or description must also contain a link to your BTT profile in
order to prove your authorship.
8. Each article must contain at least 275 words & contain link to Will Token Website



Publishing On Different News Website


Blockchain/Crypto News Website
Visibility on a Listed Website - 500 Stakes (Click Here For List of Website)
Visibility on any other website if the website traffic is as following--
1M+ - 300 Stakes
750k+ - 250 Stakes
500k+ - 200 Stakes
100k+ - 150 Stakes
50k+ - 100 Stakes
25k+ - 50 Stakes


Main Stream Publications
Visibility on Listed Website - 400 Stakes (Click Here For List of Website)
Visibility on any other website if the website traffic is as following--
5M+ - 250 Stakes
1M+ - 175 Stakes
500k+ - 100 Stakes
250k+ - 50 Stakes

Rules
1. Content should be unique, high quality and meaningful. Duplicate content will lead to disqualification from the
Bounty program.
2. Content should not have any negative comments about Will Token.
3. Approval rights are reserved with Will Token team.


Youtube Videos About Will Token


Youtube Channels Related to Cryptocurrencies
100+ Subscribers - 50 Stakes
500+ Subscribers - 75 Stakes
1k+ Subscribers - 100 Stakes
5k+ Subscribers - 150 Stakes
10k+ Subscribers - 250 Stakes
100k+ Subscribers - 700 Stakes
500k+ Subscribers - 1500 Stakes

Effort
Only 1 video per week per account is allowed

Rules
1. Content about Will Token should be a minimum of 2 mins.
2. Content should be original and high quality.
3. Approval Rights are reserved with Will Token team.





Earn Tokens as a reward for tweeting about Will Token and for retweeting all Will Token official announcements.

Payment
15% of Total Bounty will be allocated to Twitter

Tier 4 : Having 100+ followers - 1 stake/week
Tier 3 : Having 250+ followers - 2 stakes/week
Tier 2 : Having 6,50+ followers - 5 stakes/week
Tier 1 : Having 1000+ followers - 10 stakes/week
Tier 0 : Having 5,000+ followers - 15 stakes/week
Extra Tier : Having 15,000+ followers - 25 stakes/week

How to Apply
1. Firstly, follow us HERE
2. Change twitter cover picture to This [https://i.imgur.com/tkShHtu.jpg]{Cover Picture Link}[/url]
3. Using below given Creatives, Create at least 5 tweets a week around Will Token & Re-tweet all the important
Will Token announcements. {Creative To Use}

Rules
1. Twitter audit must be equal to or greater than 85%.
2. Must make at least 5 tweets about Will Token per week with a minimum of 6 hours of gap between consecutive
Tweets.
3. All Tweets Are compulsory to have a Picture from given {Creative To Use}
4. Retweet all of Will Token official announcements.
5. All the Tweets & Retweets should have the Website link & #WillTokenICO.
6. Don’t post all content on a single day. Plan the tweets in a manner that enhances the followers’ knowledge
about Will Token and keeps them updated about all essential developments concerning Will Token.
7. The follower count at the time of the registration will be freezed till the end of the campaign. Followers added
during the campaign will not be considered.
8. Multiple accounts are not allowed. Anyone having multiple accounts will be disqualified from the bounty
program, and no bounty will be rewarded for any of the accounts.
9. Change in payment addresses is not permitted, so make sure that you provide the correct details the first time
itself.





Earn Tokens as a Reward for getting people to like Will Token Facebook Page and sharing Will Token Official
Announcements.

Payment
10% of Total Bounty will be allocated to Facebook

Tier 5: Having 200+ friends : 1 stake/week
Tier 4: Having 500+ friends : 2 stakes/week
Tier 3: Having 1000+ friends : 5 stakes/week
Tier 2: Having 2000+ friends : 10 stakes/week
Tier 1: Having 5000+ friends : 15 stakes/week


How to Apply
1. Firstly, Like our Facebook Page HERE
2. Change Facebook cover picture to This {Cover Picture Link}
2. Using below given Creatives, Make a post about the Will Token Token Sale and include two links - one of the
website and one of the Bitcointalk Thread. {BTT Thread Link}
3. Share all posts published on Will Token official Facebook Account.
4. Write a minimum of 5 posts in a week with Website/Bitcointalk Thread Link & #WilltokenICO.
5. All Tweets Are compulsory to have a Picture from given {Creative To Use}
6. Only 1 post will be considered as valid per account per day.


Rules
1. You must have a minimum of 200 friends.
2. Your Facebook account must not be fake, inactive or a bot account. Only original Facebook accounts will be
accepted.
3. You must be an active and regular Facebook user, and must share and like Will Token official posts and updates.
4. Your account must be open as a Public Profile and all posts shared need to be public as well.
5. Multiple accounts are not allowed. Anyone having multiple accounts will be disqualified from the bounty
program, and no bounty will be rewarded for any of the accounts.
6. Don’t post all content on a single day. Plan the posts in a manner that enhances the followers’ knowledge about
Will Token and keeps them updated them updated about all essential developments concerning Will Token.





Join our Signature Campaign to help spread the word about Will Token on Bitcointalk. You will be rewarded with Will Token tokens for your contribution.

Payment
15% of Total Bounty Pool Will be devoted to Signature Campaign Participants.

Payment will be based on weekly stakes:
Newbie : 2 stakes/Week
Jr Member : 7 stakes / Week
Member : 15 stakes / Week
Full Member : 30 stakes / Week
Sr Member : 50 stakes / Week
Hero and Legendary : 80 stakes / Week

You will receive 5 additional stakes every week for wearing Personal Text and Avatar.


How to Apply
1. Add Signature to your Forum Profile
2. Make 10 constructive posts per week for each week of participation in the Bounty campaign.
3. Wear the signature until the end of the Campaign.


Rules
1. The Signature should be retained until the end of the ICO. Removing the signature before the specified time will
result in a disqualification from the Bounty campaign.
2. The eligibility for reward entails creating a minimum of 10 posts per week.
3. Only those Posts which are useful and constructive will be included in the 10 Post per week goal. Posts that are
off-topic, or simply made with the intention of raising post count will be not be considered valid.
4. A post must have a minimum length of 75 Characters to be considered eligible
5. Retain your signature until the Spreadsheet is updated with your final post count, for at least one more week.
Removing the signature before post count will render your efforts useless.






Earn token as a reward for translating the ANN Thread of Will Token, by moderating the thread and keeping it active by posting regular updates, News or Any Important Announcements in the Localized Announcement Thread.

Warning: A single Post dead thread is useless for the project and will not be considered for rewards. We expect from the ANN translator to take the responsibility to moderate their threads by keeping them active with tthe ranslated official announcement, news and updates regularly. If translators just post threads and leave them
with no update, they will either see a 50% reduction in their rewards or be disqualified from bounty campaign.

There are additional Rewards For Active Moderation.

Payment
10% of total Bounty Pool is dedicated to translation & Moderation/Management.

Moderating/Setting Up a local telegram Channel for your Language will Fetch you 1 stake/member at end of the Campaign.

Whitepaper : 400 Stakes
ANN thread : 100 Stakes
Bounty Thread : 100 Stakes
Moderation/ Management : 5 Stakes per Valid Post
Posting the translated announcement in local cryptocurrency forum will be rewarded with 5-25 5-25
Stakes/Website, Depending on the popularity it gains.
For Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian Website where you post, The rewards will be 2x

Notice : IF the announcement gets very Little or No traction at all, The post will not be considered Valid for
stakes.


How to Apply
To reserve a language you must fill the registration form. We will go through your submitted work and will give
send you a approval mail, if approved.


Rules
1. The translation should be your Original Work. Use of tools such as google translator, Automatic translators is not
Permitted.
2. Creation of unnecessary posts to increase stakes numbers is discouraged. Unnecessary posts will not be
considered valid for reward.
3. The bounty manager and the team Reserves Their Right To make changes to their terms or Apply new ones.






Payment
10% of total bounty Pool.

Payment will be based on stakes:
Post Regarding Will Token or featuring Will Token
10 Upvotes : 5 Stakes
20 Upvotes : 10 Stakes
50 Upvotes : 20 Stakes
100 Upvotes : 50 Stakes
300 Upvotes : 100 Stakes


How to Apply
1. Firstly, Follow our Subreddit Page here: {Subreddit Page Link}
2. Using below given Creatives, Make posts about the Will Token Token Sale and include two links - one of the
website and one of the Bitcointalk Thread. {BTT Thread Link}
3. Upvote & Comment all posts published on Will Token official Subreddit.
4. Write a minimum of 5 posts in a week with Website/Bitcointalk Thread Link
5. Only 1 post will be considered as valid per account per day.


Rules
1. For a post to be counted, it needs to be posted on one of the following subreddit, or Cryptocurrency subreddits :
r/bitcoin, r/ethereum, r/ethtrader, r/icocrypto, r/cryptocurrency
2. Post and Comments with negative karma will be considered invalid. Any kind of spam will not be considered for
rewards either.
3. External post should link to either Will Token Website or Will Token Official Announcement Thread.




Earn Tokens as a Reward for getting people to like Will Token LinkedIn Page and sharing Will Token Official Announcements.

Payment
10% of Total Bounty will be allocated to LinkedIn

1 Post: 5 stakes

How to Apply
1. Firstly, Like our LinkedIn Page HERE
2. Using below given Creatives, Make a post about the Will Token Token Sale and include two links - one of the
website and one of the Bitcointalk Thread. {BTT Thread Link}
3. Share all posts published on Will Token official LinkedIn Account.
5. Only 1 post will be considered as valid per account per day.

Rules
3. You must be an active and regular LinkedIn user and must share and like Will Token official posts and updates.
4. Your account must be open to a Public Profile and all posts shared need to be public as well.
5. Multiple accounts are not allowed. Anyone having multiple accounts will be disqualified from the bounty
program, and no bounty will be rewarded for any of the accounts.
6. Don’t post all content on a single day. Plan the posts in a manner that enhances the followers’ knowledge
about Will Token and keeps them updated them updated about all essential developments concerning Will Token.




Payment
10% of Total Bounty will be allocated to ICO Listing/Rating Campaign

Earn Tokens as a Reward for getting Will Token Listed one ICO Calendar/Rating/Listing Websites. You can publish in any of the Listed languages websites.

Data Required For Listing of ICO: Here

Stakes will be allocated according to the visibility of a website. If the website traffic {According to Similarweb} is as
following--
10M+ - 1000 Stakes
5M+ - 500 Stakes
1M+ - 300 Stakes
750k+ - 250 Stakes
500k+ - 200 Stakes
100k+ - 150 Stakes
50k+ - 100 Stakes
25k+ - 50 Stakes

How to Apply
1. Fill The Registration form.
2. Submit the link into Worksheet After Confirmation of listing

Rules
1. All the Information and Data on the website should be correct.




5% of Bounty pool is reserved for Miscellaneous Bounty Works. Will be updated later.





WORK SUBMISSION NOTE :  EVERY PARTICIPANT HAVE TO SUBMIT THERE WORK ON ANN THREAD OR BOUNTY THREAD. ALSO, A GOOGLE SHEET WILL BE SENT TO YOUR REGISTERED MAIL ID's FOR WORK SUBMISSION N STAKES DISTRIBUTION WITH THE PARTICIPATION APPROVAL MAIL.

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RBI has clearly mandate banks not to accept any transactions of cryptocurrency from July 2018.

What do you think then people invested in bitcoin should sell off and bear loses or any exchange which is been operated from India should move out.


RBI's crackdown on cryptocurrencies forces Indian exchanges to think of moving abroad: Report
Almost immediately after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided to ban regulated entities from dealing with them, Indian cryptocurrency exchanges have started looking at moving their offices abroad.

According to a report by The Economic Times, cryptocurrency exchanges like Zebpay, Unocoin, CoinSecure, BuyUcoin and BTCX India, are looking to move their head offices to places like Singapore, Belarus, or Delaware in the United States.

Many of them have already approached their advisers and are working on various tax structures, the report stated.

The state of nervousness in the Indian cryptocurrency market at the moment is because of the RBI announcement, which many are viewing as a knockout blow for the business in India.


Bitcoins worth Rs 22 crore stolen from Delhi-based cryptocurrency exchange, company accuses own officer
India is home to more than five million investors who have bought or traded in Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies.

"We have to move our company to some foreign country where regulations allow opening of bank accounts plus we won't be dealing in fiat currency. It will become a global operation rather than an India-centric operation," Shivam Thakral, CEO, BuyUcoin, told ET.

Market watchers reckon many exchanges have already moved abroad and are also contemplating products that they could offer to Indian customers, despite moving base.

While RBI has given three months’ time to banks to wind up operations, cryptocurrency exchanges are trying to settle accounts of their customers before they make an exit from India, ET reported.

Looking at the positive side, these exchanges are hopeful that shifting base outside India might help them deal with Indian laws as many won’t apply to them any longer. Permanent establishment is a concept in taxation that determines which jurisdiction has the right to tax the company.

Tax experts told the financial daily that these exchanges may have only two options — either shut shop or move to any other jurisdiction.

"Even after such a move, Indian investors may be able to continue to invest with the platforms through innovative structures. Volumes from India will surely go down but profits from business originating from India may escape tax in India as the exchanges would not have a permanent establishment in India after the move," Riaz Thingna, Director, Grant Thornton Advisory, was quoted as saying.

What do you think as Coinsecure has made an announcement to reward the user who brings stolen bitcoin on their platform?

And stolen bitcoin has been transferred to several other accounts. It seems impossible to get back those bitcoins, maybe hacker would have already sold.

if such things will be happening, definitely there will be negative spring happening around cryptocurrency domain.


Indian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure said it would pay a bounty of Rs. 2 crore to anyone who helps them recover the lost bitcoins.
On April 8, the Indian exchange lost 438.318 bitcoins, approximately Rs 20 crore from a digital wallet that was holding users' funds. Coinsecure promised to use its own funds to reimburse Rs 20 crore to customers who lost their bitcoins.

Some 11,000 customers are said to be affected by the reported theft which is the biggest cryptocurrency theft in India.

The company said it will start returning monies to the affected parties within the next 15 days.

"We will announce the refund process in the next 5-10 days. We are working to get the website back up and allow customers to login and withdraw funds," said Mohit Kalra, chief of bitcoin exchange Coinsecure in an interaction with ET.

On April 10, the exchange filed a complaint with the Delhi Cyber Crime department about the theft of virtual currencies worth 438.318 bitcoins. The police is currently investigating the case.


https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/coinsecure-announces-rs-20-lakh-reward-to-recover-lost-bitcoins-promises-refund-in-15-days/articleshow/63753530.cms

Businesses looking to give their bottom line a boost should consider cryptocurrency. As cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin grow in popularity as a mainstream form of payment, businesses can capitalize on a new target audience, among other profitable benefits.

Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies built around a technology called blockchain.


This allows cryptocurrencies to operate in a decentralized manner, which means that they are independent of major banks and other traditional financial institutions.

In addition to verifying transactions, blockchain technology plays a crucial part in bringing cryptocurrency tokens, or units of currency, into the world economy via a process called mining.

Miners use powerful computers to solve algorithms on the crypto network, and when they successfully solve one, they get to add a transaction, or a block to the blockchain.

Each algorithm that’s successfully solved helps verify a transaction, and in exchange for solving it, the user receives a token.

Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, hit the market in 2009 and paved the way for thousands of other cryptos in the years since, including Ethereum, Litecoin, and many more.

The concept behind Robotina is driven by a need to solve energy consumption problems such as uncertainties in the delivery and consumption-rate systems, and maximization of energy-related profit margin by lowering excess redundancies.

The platform is built on a ‘cloud-grid system’, whereby the connectedness of power related entities such as data, utilities, processes and people are better managed on the blockchain-based Robotina network.

The project already has integrated HEMS systems for residential and BEMS for business across the world, so there’s already a working product.


Electricity consumption issues
Electricity powers virtually 90% of world activities, and every living thing depends on electricity directly or indirectly. But to us humans in this era, we can almost do nothing without the use of electricity in our daily lives. From the powering of home appliances to the heavy duty machinery in industries and large-scale production cycles, everything depends on electric power.

This reasoning is backed by a record of global electric consumption rate of over 20,000 TWh annually. So basically, electricity is important any way you look at it. But the fundamental problem here is that of the uncertainty of supply and demand.

Now, there are currently other different consensus aiming towards wholesome alternative energy sources such as solar, wind, nuclear, biofuels and others go as far as considering hybrid grids. These alternative sources of energy may be renewable to certain degrees and some as good and efficient as they may purport, they also have limiting characteristics.

For example, if a system were to be dependent on solar grids only, it would be challenging to maintain constant output at the current consumption rates and manner during the winter seasons. Even the hybrids, make electricity generation costlier and to some extent unfriendly to the ecosystem and sometimes unaffordable to the general population.

Robotina has identified some of these disturbances in the electricity distribution systems such as unscrupulous continuous demand for power which raises the pressure on the power grid due to redundant excesses of power consumed by unattended appliances.

More so, these excesses in consumption can hurt both the consumer and the grid as a whole, as the consumer tends to pay higher fees for maintenance and the grid in-turn continues to suffer from the overweighing burden of the reckless consumption of power. This often results in faulty power grids and frequent outages as a result of continuous stress mounted on it.

So the major problem is due to lifestyle, and this can be managed manually though, but even that draws too much of attention span and can be a tedious exercise especially when trying to ensure an optimum usage. Remembering which switch is on and which to turn off and keeping track of each appliance as they run can be cumbersome.

So these problems are indeed real and can be addressed using the solutions proposed by the platform.

Robotina’s solution
Robotina wants to use the concept of IoT (internet of things), which refers to how various things (in this case, household appliances) can be connected via WiFi and powered by AI management systems in order to manage power with an efficiency ratio of 99%.

They will be creating an ecosystem that empowers its community members, enabling them to save up to 10–20% of their current expenditure on electricity bills.

They will achieve the proposed solution through HEMS (Home Energy Management System). It is a smart tech that will house the entire operating system containing the AI tech and a system that monitors weather forecasts, energy price data, and concurrently keeps track of individual appliances within the house.

What the product does is to monitor the home appliances and turns off those which are idling consuming power and turns them on only at efficient cost moments. While doing so, it conveniently redistributes the electricity to more demanding needs simultaneously.


Expectations
Through this revolutionary power network, and once their ICO is successful, it is expected that households who have the Robotina’s product installed will be able to efficiently optimize how they consume energy automatically.

More so, the members of the community can achieve energy buying consensus by group buying and trading. Other features to be expected from the platform will include, aggregated data sales which will improve how stakeholders and suppliers can efficiently coordinate power distribution based on the outputted raw data received directly from the users of such grids.

Apart from the sharing economy, other derivative benefits from this network will be a heightened security layout, by which users can confidently rely on alerted signals from disruptive power activities, and this data is sent in real-time through the Robotina’s network layers to the appropriate energy service companies partnered with the platform.

Crowdfunding for more expansion projects can be carried out using the ROX — the platform’s token which will be the utility token that will be issued during its crowdsale and also as access to services rendered within the platform.

The platform also aims at protecting the environment from the excess energy dissipation by allowing other users to buy free energy that are unused on the platform creating a closed loop for the energy cycle.

Robotina ICO crowdsale analysis
The project already has integrated HEMS systems for residential and BEMS for business across the world, so there’s already a working product. The aim of the crowdsale is to further expand the project reaching more global markets and help with scaling issues.

Comparatively, this ICO differs from similar ones out there as they have a strong marketing ethics, and have measures in place to truly make their platform decentralized allowing for more public participation in the project. Hence, they would end up building a strong community that is passionate about the solutions provided and not just conduct a crowdsale event that will act as a double-edged sword.

The TGE is going to be carried out on the Ethereum platform using the ERC-20 standard. Their target is to raise a maximum of $28.5 million USD by selling 570,500,000 ROX tokens or at least be able to raise $10 million at an average of $0.05 USD per ROX to execute the project. The main token sale is to begin on the 21st of March 2018 and last through the 30th of April 2018.

During the TGE event, the company is offering 10% and 5% for both presale and main sale of their tokens respectively.

They have chosen to distribute their tokens thus:


Funds that will be raised during the ICO will be spent efficiently on improving the product and services of the platform especially with the inclusion of compliance and legal aspects due to jurisdictional issues when scaling to the global market.

The roadmap:

Their development plan is quite eventful as they plan to kick off the project from the Q3 of 2018 through Q3 of 2020. The plan is objective enough for the team to handle, considering their experience and achievements in the past.

Team
The company behind the Robotina platform is unlike many other decentralized energy-based network out there like Wepower and Power Ledger, as they have the advantage of a huge team behind the project, numbering up to 50 experts in relative fields, and valuable experience on their side worth over 28 years, plus they about 1 million connected points with over 25 countries currently using their products.

Now, all that may sound like sugar-coating the ICO, however, who would not vouch for a viable project that currently has a working product in the market and has connections with organizations that are well established with reputable track records?

The team is headed by Devid Palčič who is the CEO, he is well versed in the Cognitive technology solutions field. Also on the team is Damir Škrjanec who is in charge of the research and development department of the project. Other team members include Ivan Morano and Milan Susman among others who have true skills and expertise on their side.

It would seem that the project is well laced with a competent and reputable team structure alongside 16 Advisors drawn from different fields of finance, investment, and blockchain enterprises.


Medias
The website is information specific and everything an investor needs to know on the first approach is well presented. Their whitepaper has an elaborate business model for the investor to acquaint himself with. Although there are no specific blockchain or smart contract codes sampled there, but the document is thoroughly illustrated for anyone to understand how the product is expected to work.

As for their social media platform, I would say that a followership of over 2000 people on twitter and about 600 on telegram and 347 people on Facebook isn’t so bad. But I expect more from a team with experience and actual product on the market.

They have a bounty offering 3% of the total amount of ROX to be emitted.

Security
Eth will be collected during the crowdsale as the tokens will be generated on the Ethereum blockchain network. it would seem that the project has an escrow in charge of the contributors’ funds before they are sent down to the company. But no clear information is provided about their escrow on their whitepaper or on the website other than an allocation of 2% of the token distribution.

As for the safety of investment, it would seem that this project is worth investing in, as they already have a working product and are offering to provide solutions and products of viable importance to the society. However, as always, to observe due diligence to ensure you are well acquainted with the project and know how to stake your investment in it.

Pros and cons
Pros:

A product ready to address a real-world problem with the electricity distribution and management systems.
An existing viable product already in the market.
A credible team of experts and professionals from relative fields.
They have successfully achieved other projects with other reputable companies in the past, such as Hitachi, Panasonic, Microsoft, and Sharp.
Cons:

There are currently already established green energy platforms on decentralized networks.