Is there any info how much have me collected until now?How is the sale going?
There is a ticker on the website, varyon.io Currently at 1381 ETH (varies based on the price of our bitcoin holdings). Thanks Elwar.We are progressing just fine and when US joins in it will be even better for sure. US based investors will be able to join later? Yeah acredited US investor will soon be able to invest Why they cant join now,whats the current issue? Accredited investors will be going through a separate KYC/AML process that also involves proving their accredited status (they have to have made at least $200k in the past 2 years or have at least $1 million in assets). Is it the same thing with investors from China,or they wont be able to join at all? Likely not unless their laws change. They outright outlawed ICOs.
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Is there any info how much have me collected until now?How is the sale going?
There is a ticker on the website, varyon.io Currently at 1381 ETH (varies based on the price of our bitcoin holdings). Thanks Elwar.We are progressing just fine and when US joins in it will be even better for sure. US based investors will be able to join later? Yeah acredited US investor will soon be able to invest Why they cant join now,whats the current issue? Accredited investors will be going through a separate KYC/AML process that also involves proving their accredited status (they have to have made at least $200k in the past 2 years or have at least $1 million in assets). What is the difference between KYC and AML? KYC is Know Your Customer. Basically verifying your identity. AML is Anti-Money Laundering. Basically finding out where the money is coming from. I would speak freely about what I think about KYC/AML but I am somewhat representing Blue Frontiers so I will play nice.
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I have been involved with Blue Frontiers who is building seasteads and they keep talking about recycled materials and environmentally friendly building methods. I'm not involved in that part of things so I don't know the details. My participation is mainly on the blockchain side of things. The seastead ICO is already underway with the presale going right now at http://www.varyon.io
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BS about Juice
Edit: Sorry...realized I'm likely quoting a sock puppet that everyone else had the sense to ignore already.
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One quoting of the troll this month is more than I would have liked.
Choose your life forward. You only get one.
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BS about Juice
Out of curiosity, what would you do with your life if the joos are no longer the boogyman? Seriously? It is something I contemplated myself with my hatred for the state and the amount of time I spent of my life fighting for liberty. Only to realize that so much of my life was wasted fighting for something nobody else really wants. What's on the other side of victory? For me I am discovering that. What is it I am fighting for? What, in my own life, is being restricted by the evil government? The reality is I can find freedom in my own life and not worry about them. I can move forward in my own life and have that future on my own. I can focus on the things I'd wanted to do before getting caught up in the whole political game. Sure, the knowledge of how things work has helped in my decision making, but I don't have to be a warrior for "the cause". I can be a warrior for my self.
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Has anyone else noticed the distinct rise in communism (or whatever the current name is for it, progressive, democratic socialist, etc.) on the Internet lately?
Even on reddit crypto forums where they're supporting something that will take away power from the state...it is like a virus.
Perhaps it is just the reaction to the crumbling economies and everyone is looking for a safety net. Blaming capitalism for the mess the governments have created.
I can only hope to make it to the last refuge on a seastead using crypto before it engulfs the rest of the world.
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Is there any info how much have me collected until now?How is the sale going?
There is a ticker on the website, varyon.io Currently at 1381 ETH (varies based on the price of our bitcoin holdings). Thanks Elwar.We are progressing just fine and when US joins in it will be even better for sure. US based investors will be able to join later? Yeah acredited US investor will soon be able to invest Why they cant join now,whats the current issue? Accredited investors will be going through a separate KYC/AML process that also involves proving their accredited status (they have to have made at least $200k in the past 2 years or have at least $1 million in assets).
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How about funding moon,space and mars colony next? BTC O'Neill cylinder one.
If we can't colonize the water, how are we supposed to concur space?
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What do you mean by "sustainable"?
Sustainable refers to working toward being resource independent from a supply route. At first most things will be a hybrid approach, perhaps utilizing current resources on the host island or atoll. The plan is to be energy independent, recycle our own waste, gather and store our own water, create our own food, etc. While we won't be making our own computers or having herds of cattle for steaks, we hope to reach the point where someone could live on the seastead without the need of anything from outside of the seastead. Of course, for more pleasurable living we would rely on trade. This has big implications for things like growing populations or refugees. During the Syrian refugee crisis there was a very rich man that wanted to spend millions to buy an island for the refugees. If we can create a sustainable floating island where anyone living there has all the resources they need to live, then it will solve a lot of the world's problems. We acknowledge that food will be the most difficult starting out but the rest should be possible early on.
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The ICO's problem is that if the company succeeds in bringing a real floating island off the coast of French Polynesia, there is really no way to be sure this will happen, and because the price The long-term value of the Varyon token is entirely dependent on this, so it's clear that this is a very risky venture.
Correct. Like every other ICO there is the risk that the company won't follow through. Blue Frontiers is holding a majority of varyon in reserves. They have the largest stake in making this happen so they are incentivized to make it happen. Most ICOs try to get all of the money up front with the promise that they'll get around to building what they promised (as they drive around in their lambos). The small upfront raise of varyon ensures that Blue Frontiers will do everything it can to ensure that the value of the varyon holds in the long term.
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Any plans for those kind of floating islands in Greece?I think it would be a good place for something like that.
Seasteads would be great in such an island nation such as Greece. We are having a contest right now paying $100k to find the next seastead location. https://www.blue-frontiers.global/
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Is there any info how much have me collected until now?How is the sale going?
There is a ticker on the website, varyon.io Currently at 1381 ETH (varies based on the price of our bitcoin holdings). You accept only BTC and ETH during ICO? During the presale we accept BTC, ETH and ZEN. During the actual sale we will be using the smart contract for purchase which will only allow for sending ETH. How come you accept ZEN?Not an usual choice for accepted crypto currencies during ICO. Blue Frontiers has partnered with ZenCash. A major focus of their cryptocurrency is blockchain based governance solutions and privacy. I am not a ZenCash expert so I can't comment much on the technology but hopefully their team can provide some governance solutions for the seastead. We definitely want to partner with many blockchain players to provide blockchain based solutions to things that governments currently do centrally. Blue Frontiers is not a blockchain business so they will be looking to others to solve these problems for the seastead. Here's one of our founders, Randy Hencken with Robert Viglione discussing Blue Frontiers and ZenCash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52InKG3PmAw
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Is there any info how much have me collected until now?How is the sale going?
There is a ticker on the website, varyon.io Currently at 1381 ETH (varies based on the price of our bitcoin holdings). You accept only BTC and ETH during ICO? During the presale we accept BTC, ETH and ZEN. During the actual sale we will be using the smart contract for purchase which will only allow for sending ETH.
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Is there any info how much have me collected until now?How is the sale going?
There is a ticker on the website, varyon.io Currently at 1381 ETH (varies based on the price of our bitcoin holdings). Seems like a good number.What is the soft cap? Soft cap is 4000 ETH. This week we will start opening up for accredited US investors so that should bump things up fairly quickly.
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You need about 7.2 km/s to achieve a LEO. Building a mechanism capable of lofting tonnage into orbit might have to be a dozen km's long..or a hundred.
Ya, sounds like the guy wants to launch small satellites into orbit. Something that can be used repeatedly for something like the global satellite internet initiative.
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Another successful launch of the the Falcon 9. Always do enjoy a night launch. ----------- So I had lunch with a guy last week in Bangkok who is working on a prototype for an electromagnetic launch vehicle in the ocean. Why the ocean? Because his final product will be 2km in diameter. Sure you could dig a deep hole to get it to work or you just take the tube and let it sit deep in the ocean. He wanted to talk to me because of the seasteading connection. He's not like one of the many dreamers I meet in the seasteading world, he is already funding the prototype himself and has it built, transporting it to the ocean this week. The prototype will be 50 meters in diameter with a 10cm wide tube launching at about 300 m/s. We discussed it and said it would be a great business for seasteaders since you'll need people maintaining and keeping an eye on the structure. Though he prefers Thailand due to the cheap labor.
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Is there any info how much have me collected until now?How is the sale going?
There is a ticker on the website, varyon.io Currently at 1381 ETH (varies based on the price of our bitcoin holdings).
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Do you have any working theories or ideas already on the subject of moving a floating seasted.What would be used to move it over the sea in case on need for a relocation?
The initial seasteads will not focus on moving too much. There have been some designs where each unit is small enough to be loaded onto a tanker and moved (for long distances) or for short distances wait for a calm day and use a tug type of boat to pull it. only rich people can afford this seasteads. now, blockchain is making a big impact and even ordinary users can partially own it. but i think in the long run, small time investors can have only those tokens but not really owning a seastead. they are just mere holders of tokens. but why not, just the idea of having such kind of ownership might do you good, mentally. There will be a wide range of people on the seastead, some renting, some there for vacation, some owning. At the very least you can use your varyon to go on a vacation to visit the seastead and meet the interesting people that will be living there. Im sure there will be people who will see buying seasted as an investment,and they will rent the place,so you wont have to be extremely rich to experience something like this. Is there any blockchain project that is into lending and renting properties? Might be a potential partner if we get to the point where people that own a property on the seasted want to rent it There are several. https://rentberry.com/ is one. Blue Frontiers wants to partner with as many blockchain companies as possible to make the seastead as blockchain friendly as they can. Using things like Rentberry for rentals, others for crypto voting, property registration, citizenship, etc... They're not a blockchain company so they will definitely be looking for partners to utilize their unique environment for testing their new projects and getting the word out about the results.
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