Today we released our second newsletter, which we also posted at our blog. I´d like to ask everyone to post them both, and then we´ll have one newsletter per week from now on.
TO SHARE FOR IN THE THREADS:Internet of Coins: Project Update #1 Welcome!To our first e-mail update for the Internet of Coins project. In light of our upcoming fundraiser, we would like explain to you what to expect. Because we aim to be transparent in our communication: if you already frequently visit our Bitcointalk forum thread, read our
weblog, watch our
vlogs, read our
opinion pieces and comb through our
tweets, you won't miss out on a thing. If you don't, these e-mails will provide a nice packaged bundle of information regarding the progress of the Internet of Coins project and the latest updates regarding the upcoming fundraiser, starting
March 21st. We will update you once per week.
Quick recap: what IS Internet of Coins?Internet of Coins (IoC) is a platform which allows you to trade digital assets and currencies peer to peer, with an easy to use interface and the opportunity to earn fees from each other by participating in the network. Under the hood, we have been building the client to support the different currency systems for the past two years. The first deliverable is the wallet to control them, arriving this summer. It supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, NXT, Counterparty and LISK out of the box.
Development evolutionNext week, we are starting developer vlogs to keep everyone update on the parts under the hood. The biggest update right now is that the LISK chain has been stabilized and interacts properly with the wallet API. Many thanks to LISKs Max Kordek for his support on this. We are in the process of finishing up the alpha to ship it to our test group in the Netherlands. You can find our published code
here.
Campaign growthLast week we were featured as keynote speakers at the
Blockchain Expo London. We'll be uploading the video to our YouYube channel. In the meantime, several additional crowdfunding listing sites have contacted us for interviews. Currently, we are listed at
Cyber Fund, and expect to be popping up on more places across the web soon. Translations are being set up, so people can view the site and the client in their local language. We welcome Marjon, our new Translation Coordinator for this.
Latest publicationsJoachim recently wrote an article about our
foundations philosophy, which gives an impression of our line of thought with the foundation. Fun fact: the guys at Matthias Klees' Federated Blockchain Initiative already made a nice shoutout in their latest
animation about EuropeCoin, one of many tokens that will connect to the
Internet of Coins.
Ways to supportLove the project? You can help out by giving it a *Star* through your Twitter account on
Cyber Fund. We are setting up bounties for our social media ambassadors as well. More on those next time.
Thank you for taking the time to read our updates,
we´ll be in touch again next week!
Yours sincerely,
The team behind Internet of Coins - Amadeus, George, Jelle, Joachim, Marjon, Matthias, Pim, Robert, Sergey and Steffen
And the new one:
Internet of Coins: Project Update #2: Trust, languages and wallets Welcome!If this is your first e-mail update, you can always read the previous ones at our
weblog. And remember: the fundraiser starts
March 21st. We send these updates once per week.
Topic of this week: trustWith Internet of Coins (IoC) we aim to create a trustless environment in which the security of your value transfer is not dependent on the assumption that you are to trust the person on the other side of the network willing to trade. However, the fundraiser, which we are organizing to scale this project, does require trust. And for that, you sometimes may like a third party to review your options. Which is why we are currently under assessment by rating agencies
Smith & Crown and
ICOrating. Internet of Coins is are already listed at
Cyber Fund. Through our cooperation with established escrow partner
NLnet, we aim to provide a solid basis for long-term continuity. Their 20-year experience as an organisation supporting open-source initiatives has been a great help. But of course don´t believe just us; perform your own critical assessment. Especially before participating in any crowdfund.
Development evolutionOur alphatest is almost ready for deployment. Amadeus has worked hard to build the interface for the hardware wallets we are providing to the testers; mainstream users who have asked for a pilot to use cryptocurrencies as a replacement for fiat currency within their community. We have had some requests for a Slack channel, and will set up one to keep in touch with the development community. We usually steer clear of proprietary software, but in this case we´ll make an exception ;-)
Campaign growthWe are multilingual! A team of community translators joined us from Bitcointalk.org who are now translating all our announcements to Chinese, Dutch, German, French, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Including these e-mail updates, so you can always find one in a language of your choice on the boards. Site translations are in the works, expect to see new language options next week. We will also start recruiting some social media ambassadors.
Latest publicationsTatiana Moroz from CryptoMediaHub interviewed Joachim on her show about Internet of Coins. It is a very good introduction to what the network has to offer and what technologies we are using. You can view the interview
here.
Currently we are also working on the Funding Terms, to make sure they are available for everyone before the fundraiser starts.
Ways to supportLove the project? You can help out by giving it a *Star* through your Twitter account on
Cyber Fund. If you have a suggestion for a blockchain event where we really should be, drop us an email and we´ll try to come by.
Thank you for taking the time to read our updates,
we´ll be in touch again next week!
Yours sincerely,
The team behind Internet of Coins - Amadeus, George, Jelle, Joachim, Marjon, Matthias, Pim, Robert, Sergey and Steffen
There will be no new further updates this week to translate. Thanks guys (and girls)
