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     7 years ago  

    Hi Piotr, Yeah, I've had my eye on them for several weeks now, but am hesitant thus far, because:

    1. they are in Gibraltar, where several very big bankers have moved into the crypto space and have ripped people off (like Wirex ripped us off the last year).
    2. they are a for-profit limited liability corp. and most important,
    3. because their system is loading so slow. It takes 3-5 minutes to load their homepage alone, which is the slowest I believe I've seen the internet used to be since back in the 90's. I'm really surprised to see the CMO, EMEA of GoDaddy as an adviser. The whole idea of a "content distribution platform" is about as opposite to what they are at least presenting themselves to be as anyone could ever imagine. So while the idea is brilliant and I do have my eye on their development, I am very VERY distrusting of them.

    I'm not sure you know, but there has been a wave of big corporate companies filing patents recently on a lot of the open source blockchain technology that many have been using and developing already. Jeff Bezos (Amazon), for one, filed a patent for Data Stream to combine data from various sources to "identify" cryptocurrency users for law enforcement subscribers. This is simple tech that many law enforcement agencies already use around the world. So in essence Jeff Bezos is stealing from already existing tech support to law enforcement in order to monopolize the open source market, just as he has done to the entire retail industry around the globe.