Tell us how the people of canada will be able to claim the coins on canada day and I will support this.
I would be happy to help with anything including distribution through Toronto if I could see a plan of development, distribution, and well just some specifics. I am an active member in the TIPS Fedoracoin community and would be happy to help a canadian branded coin, if it has a plan.
thank you for the question, and also to bamsterdam for raising this. I'm sure it's on many others minds
healthy skepticism is a good thing... I dont' want to claim to have we have all the answers to a somewhat complicated problem..someone sent an email saying how totall unrealistic it was to expect 5 million Canadian's to claim coins in 10 months.
the basic plan for the stages is located here.
http://www.canadacoin.org/canadacoin-airdrop/ but of course all the details are not spelled out and many still have to be worked through. I am taking the approach that the knowledge "is in the crowd", and there is a pretty smart group of people in this community.
we have been exploring various options and methods for validation through Facebook App Open Graph plus 2FA mobile, plus other methods for bot spoofing ...we don't have the luxury of a digital ID system in place like Iceland...certainly it will never be 100% fool proof, but if we can eliminate 98%% of the attempted fraud and reach even close to 1 million people, we will have accomplished an historic acheivement.
We have allocated 9 million coins for development fund and the lions share of this will go to those who are involved in assisting with this effort.
some other ideas that have been suggested and would need to be vetted and developed...
mobilizing a network of commission based CanadaCoin Ambassadors to distribute branded blank paper wallets at universities, high schools, music and sporting events...wallets are activated online and users are taken through a validation process so that it doesn't matter if they receive multiple wallets
there are also old school methods...mail in a letter from Canada with a copy of a utility bill and a CanadaCoin address
if this is indeed to be a community effort and a "people's currency", then we need people to step forward and get involved, contribute ideas, and programming skill and help us create the most secure and scalable system, that can validate effectively whle ensuring privacy of personal information be used in other countries without national ID systems. we have 49 days left to accomplish this.
