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Saltillo - The Darkest Moment In Portuguese Football
The Saltillo Affair (Portuguese: O Caso Saltilho) was a series of controversies surrounding the Portuguese national football team during its participation in the Mexico '86 FIFA World Cup. The affair was named after the Mexican city of Saltillo, Coahuila, in which the team was headquartered for the competition, and also the place where the majority of the described events occurred. The team had not competed in a final phase of the World Cup since the 1966 FIFA World Cup twenty years before, where it had achieved an unprecedented 3rd place. Following a rough qualification, the 1986 campaign did not start well with the suspicion of doping falling on one of the players who had been selected for the tournament. Although that test was later proven wrong that was the first of many controversies to affect the team in the following weeks, that included threats of strikes from the players, the announcement of a series of demands to the Portuguese Federation and reports of inappropriate behavior at the team's headquarters. It was one of the biggest scandals involving the Portuguese national team Having achieved third place in the England '66 World Cup, several years elapsed before Portugal qualified again for a major football competition. This happened when they reached Euro 84, where they advanced to the semi-finals, being only beaten in extra time by hosts and soon to be champions France.
While not making a brilliant qualifying campaign for the Mexico World Cup, Portugal qualified one point ahead of Sweden thanks to a last-game victory against already-qualified leaders West Germany in Stuttgart Nicknaming them Os Infantes, with an anthem sung by Estebes (a fictional Porto native sports reporter with a stereotypical deep accent and fondness for wine, created by Portuguese humorist Herman José), the Portuguese had high hopes for their national team. One of the key issues initially tackled was how to deal with altitude. While only one of three matches of the group stage were played in altitude – two games in Monterrey (537 m) and one in Guadalajara (1600 m) – it was argued that the team should also prepare for games in Mexico City (2238 m), and so decided that the headquarters should be in Saltillo, neighbouring the England team. With problems scoring goals during the preparation matches, national team manager José Augusto Torres wanted to call up Rui Jordão, one of the key players two years before in France, who had not played the whole season due to a quarrel with his manager. On the other hand, Manuel Fernandes, who made one of his best seasons, scoring 30 goals, was not a viable option for Torres, to the dismay of Sporting fans. The team was eventually announced on 19 April: Goalkeepers: Manuel Bento, Vítor Damas and Jorge Martins Defenders: João Pinto, António Morato, Pedro Venâncio, Augusto Inácio, António Veloso, José António, Frederico Rosa, Álvaro Magalhães and Sobrinho Midfielders: Jaime Magalhães, Carlos Manuel, Jaime Pacheco, António André, António Sousa, Paulo Futre and José Ribeiro Forwards: Diamantino Miranda, Rui Águas and Fernando Gomes Hours before leaving Portugal on 10 May, Veloso tested positive for Primobolan, an anabolic steroid. This led to initial tensions between players, the FPF, and Benfica, Veloso's club, between claims of innocence and accusations of improper player care, woke Fernando Bandeirinha at 2 o'clock in the morning and rushed him to the airport as a substitute After a questionable decision about the air trip to Mexico (it was decided that instead of flying directly to Mexico City, the team should pass by Frankfurt and Dallas before on arrival it was clear that the Portuguese organization cared too much about altitude training, neglecting other aspects. The hotel, although suitable, had no safety measures, which meant it was often crowded with national and foreign reporters; the training field was sloped and poorly treated; and local amateur teams were invited for preparation matches Presented as a peaceful city, Saltillo proved to be anything but that. As the city was close to Laredo, Texas, in the United States, many players wanted to use their days off to shop there. A local organization delegate (grandson of a politician, known for being a small-time con artist) offered to go there and purchase the goods for the Portuguese, but after helping himself with the money, never returned. A game that was staged against a team composed of local workers (presented as a "good challenge" by the Mexican authorities) ended in a comical display where Diamantino even conducted an interview during the match while playing. Chile was willing to play, but the fee they asked was not met by Portuguese federation delegates. Rumours that the players were "jumping the fence" broke in Portugal, which led to their wives flooding the telephone lines for clarification on the issue By then, the authority of Amândio de Carvalho, vice-president of the Portuguese Football Federation was undermined, and president Silva Resende refused to leave Mexico City While the first days increased the tension between the elements of the national team, the worst was yet to come. The players first threatened to strike unless the prizes were increased, beginning a war of press releases between them and the federation. On 25 May the players dropped the bomb, refusing to play in a preparation match and further matches unless the situation was dealt with. The protest backfired, as in Portugal nobody stood with the players (press, fans and club directors included) and the international press tagged the incident as "ridiculous", but still took sides with the players due to the situations described by the players, which included being forced to advertise certain products (Adidas and a local brand of beer) without being paid After withdrawing some demands (and working around others, like wearing their training equipment inside out so that they did not display any brands[ Portugal played their opening game against England, beating the odds and winning the game with a single goal of Carlos Manuel, the Hero of Stuttgart (and said to be the head of the protesting players), which apparently opened the road to the knockout stage.
Futre, expected to be the revelation of the World Cup, did not play due to Torres wanting to keep a balance between clubs in the starting eleven (Futre played together with Fernando Gomes in FC Porto), and calling him the "secret weapon". Days later, Bento broke a leg during practice playing as a forward, which ended his career with the national team. He was replaced by Damas, one of the best goalkeepers in Portuguese history, but he was not prepared and fell into depression. The much celebrated victory was followed by a defeat against Poland. This left the decision to the last game against Morocco, knowing a tie would qualify both teams, but the game ended with a humiliating 3-1 defeat. As the Portuguese team, last in their group, returned home, the press was already tearing apart the whole institution of Portuguese football, from management to players José Torres quit, and was replaced by Ruy Seabra for the Euro 88 campaign, while removing several players from the national team – Diamantino, Jaime Pacheco, João Pinto, Sobrinho, Fernando Gomes, Paulo Futre and Carlos Manuel. This "team of change" did not endure much, as after a compromising home draw against Malta (which Seabra considered to be a "good display for those who like football") roughly a year after, Seabra was dismissed and replaced with Juca Pereira, which progressively recalled some of the suspended players. The damage, however, was already done, and Portugal would not qualify again for an international competition until Euro 96. History repeats itself The next time Portugal would play in the World Cup, in 2002, saw many parallels to the country's experience in 1986: The previous European Championship also saw a strong result by Portugal—in Euro 2000, Portugal again reached the semifinals, where they were again beaten by France in extra time. Although Portugal had less trouble qualifying in 2002, finishing atop their qualifying group, they suffered a similar compromising result during pre-World Cup friendlies, being thumped 4–1 in Porto by Finland. As in 1986, a player on the original World Cup roster was suspended for doping, this time Daniel Kenedy. Shopping sprees by players, this time in Macau, were also widely reported in the Portuguese press. The 2002 preparation also saw questionable managing choices and some amateurism, including the same lack of agreement on prizes .Like in 1986, Portugal and its last group rival (South Korea this time) only needed to draw in order to both accomplish qualification to the knockout round. Portugal lost 1-0 and was eliminated The end result in Korea/Japan was the same as in Mexico—Portugal failed to go through the group stages. Since 1986, the word Saltillo has become synonymous with poor management at the higher levels of Portuguese football.
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FunFair - A Game Changer for 2018. An in-depth analysis.
FunFair. An in-depth analysis.
FunFair is a decentralised gaming technology platform which uses the Ethereum blockchain, smart contracts, and proprietary state channels to deliver casino solutions with games that are fun, fast and fair.
FunFair is
not a casino. Instead, FunFair will license its technology out to casino operators. This differentiates FunFair from the competition in the blockchain gambling sphere – being a casino carries with it risks and burdens stemming from statutory and regulatory hurdles. Being a licensing entity instead, provides legal safeguards and will enable a more widely used platform.
I’d like to touch on the many aspects of FunFair that makes it an extremely promising and undervalued project. However, I won’t be making any price projections. As always, do your own research. In this case, I’ve done a lot of it for you.
The market. Online gambling is a large market: currently over 47.1 billion dollars, and projected to continue increasing.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270728/market-volume-of-online-gaming-worldwide/.
The problem and the solution. Trust. Traditional online casinos rely on you trusting them to be fair. The chance of red coming up on roulette is 48.65%. How do you know your traditional online casino is giving you those odds? You don’t – you need to trust them. Most online casinos are incorporated in island microstates. Do those nations have online casino regulators? Do they possess the willingness, manpower, and expertise to audit online casinos?
FunFair puts the gambling on the blockchain so it’s trustless – you know you have a 48.65% chance of having red come up. It’s fair.
The team. FunFair has their ground covered and bases loaded. With their team of 30+ professionals they are way ahead of the competition. You may know CEO Jez San, OBE, from his career track: Argonaut Games (founder), Star Fox (programmer), and PKR Poker (founder). He has been in the gaming industry for more than two decades, and has built valuable relationships along the way. Constantly engaging with the FunFair community through Telegram, Discord, and Reddit, it seems as though he leaves no engaging question unanswered. Alongside Jez as COO is David Greyling (
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgreyling/), former International Director of William Hill, one of the world’s leading betting and gaming companies and one of the most trusted brands in the industry. (
https://www.williamhillplc.com/about/).
Further, FunFair is looking to expand – and fast. They expect to have a team of 50+ people in the not-so-distant future, as they are currently hiring business and marketing professionals. So, if you’re looking for an opportunity to showcase your expertise in these fields, try your shot at securing a position within the company! (
https://www.funfair.io/careers) The FunFair team’s base of operations is in London, UK.
The platform. FunFair presents its casino operators and players with a gaming opportunity never seen before:
- Decentralized, serverless
- Provably fair, blockchain-based
- Trust-less outcomes that can be witnessed on verifiable smart contracts
- Instant cashouts – FunFair does not hold your funds
- Accessible through web browser on desktop or mobile
- Fun games with an exciting user interface
- Fast gameplay conducted through Fate Channels – the team’s custom version of State Channels. The Fate Channels developed by the FunFair team are superior technology. In very basic terms, Fate Channels are what supports the communication during a game session between the player and the casino. They provide a fast, low cost method for random number generation, starting gaming sessions, ending them and settling with smart contracts on the blockchain. This allows for secure, deterministic, fair gameplay. There is only one gas fee needed to start the game session. For an in-depth explanation that you won’t be disappointed in reading, please refer the the technical white paper here: https://funfair.io/wp-content/uploads/FunFair-Technical-White-Paper.pdf
FunFair is preparing for mass adoption and has a working solution for Ethereum network congestion. Fate Channels.
For more discussion both technical and company related, have a look at both whitepapers:
https://funfair.io/explore/whitepapers/ The games. FunFair is pursuing a full suite of traditional casino games:
- Blackjack
- Baccarat
- Craps
- Roulette
- Slot machines (various types)
- Let It Ride
- Caribbean Stud
- 5-card Poker
- 3-card Poker
- + more
You can test all of these games at
https://showcase.funfair.io/. Some are currently testable on the Ethereum testnet.
FunFair is one of the
only projects in the cryptocurrency space that has a working product. They are set to launch in the beginning of Q2 of 2018.
What have they been up to? Are they on track? Consistently ahead of schedule and on top of their roadmap in many ways, FunFair was a sponsor of DevCon 3 and had one of the most engaged-with booth setups. They connected and networked positively with many developers at the event.
https://twitter.com/FunFairTech/status/926113230677856256 They’ve recently received the Malta iGaming award for “Best ICO of 2017” which was determined by a nomination panel of 5 industry experts, and a panel of 32 judges with many years of combined experience in gaming. The awards were hosted during Malta Gaming Week; a very large event attended by many business executives, authorities, and even local government:
http://maltagamingweek.com/ They’ve been constantly updating their product showcase, and adhere to all feedback received by community members. Their new showcase was designed to “be able to cope with adding more games easily by the team + third parties, and also to be configurable by casino operators.” Some of their product update can be found here:
https://funfair.io/awards-latest-product-update/ How does the token (FUN) derive value? The technology will be licensed to casino operators for free or at extremely low cost – itself a major draw.
FunFair does not issue dividends or offer profit sharing – FunFair has no profit to share. The technology will be licensed to casino operators for free – itself a major draw for existing casino operators to adopt the FunFair platform. FunFair does not take a cut of the profits from any of the casino operators – they’re free to keep all profits to themselves. With a fixed supply, the value in FUN is derived from scarcity of the token in the marketplace. Scarcity comes from four sources:
- Casinos holding FUN as part of their bankroll (described more below)
- Players holding FUN and not cashing it out immediately after they play
- Speculators (investors) holding FUN anticipating it will increase in value
- Token burn: a small amount of FUN will be slowly destroyed over time. The exact amount has not been announced, though it will likely be quite small.
That first scarcity factor will be key, as casinos will need large bankrolls of FUN to operate a large casino with multiple games and high max bets. Think about it this way: if a casino has a roulette table with 1 seat, and a 5000 FUN bet limit, it will need to be armed with at least 175,000 FUN to let a player come by and spin the wheel (5000 max bet * 35, the max payout on roulette of a single number hitting).
Plans for the future & the latest company update . - New high-level employee added to the team: Stefan Kovach- was Brand/Marketing director for large gaming brands such as bwin and Poker Stars for many years. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stefankovach
- Development will be finished for Q1 2018, allowing for advancement in operations and partnerships at the beginning of Q2 2018.
- FunFair is in the process of acquiring their Remote Gambling Software License, which will enable them to license their technology to existing and regulated casino operators.
- FunFair has steady operational costs covered for the entire year, as well as an 85,000 ETH reserve/storage for any and all upcoming costs.
An Updated Roadmap (December 20th, 2017)
Q1:
In January we will be submitting to the UK Gambling Commission our application for a Remote Gambling Software License.
In February we will be attending ICE Gaming, an international B2B conferencing event, where we will be introducing the FunFair brand to the gaming industry.
By the end of March V1 of the FunFair blockchain casino nears completion. This release will allow for real FUN to be used on the Main Ethereum Network for the first time.
Q2:
Operator On-Boarding: Deploying the FunFair casino in partnership with a friendly operator; objective: learn, adapt & iterate the technology as part of a soft launch.
Further product enhancements and features will continue to be worked on and, as we scale, we expect to introduce more regular product releases.
Engaging with 3rd party game developers, publishing API documentation and sample games and contracts.
Q3-4:
Product feature enhancements and further operator on-boarding. Comprehensive operator reporting and administration tools.
Full update:
https://funfair.io/company-update-december-2017/ So, if you’ve read this far, you can now see how professional and enlightening this team has been with their project. I believe that within the following months, FunFair will show us exactly why they are one of the best projects in the cryptocurrency space right now and beyond.
TL;DR - Licensor of provably fair blockchain casino technology. Professional team of 30+ employees, full transparency in company actions and initiatives, proprietary technology that is near-ready for mass adoption, consistently on-track with road map. They have tackled a problem head-on with the gambling industry, and are ready to provide their solution. Strong community of both members and developers.
Special thanks to u/Commissar_ for the assistance in writing this.
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FunFair – A Game Changer for 2018. An in-depth analysis.
FunFair. An in-depth analysis.
FunFair is a decentralised gaming technology platform which uses the Ethereum blockchain, smart contracts, and proprietary state channels to deliver casino solutions with games that are fun, fast and fair.
FunFair is
not a casino. Instead, FunFair will license its technology out to casino operators. This differentiates FunFair from the competition in the blockchain gambling sphere – being a casino carries with it risks and burdens stemming from statutory and regulatory hurdles. Being a licensing entity instead, provides legal safeguards and will enable a more widely used platform.
I’d like to touch on the many aspects of FunFair that makes it an extremely promising and undervalued project. However, I won’t be making any price projections. As always, do your own research. In this case, I’ve done a lot of it for you.
The market. Online gambling is a large market: currently over 47.1 billion dollars, and projected to continue increasing.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270728/market-volume-of-online-gaming-worldwide/.
The problem and the solution. Trust. Traditional online casinos rely on you trusting them to be fair. The chance of red coming up on roulette is 48.65%. How do you know your traditional online casino is giving you those odds? You don’t – you need to trust them. Most online casinos are incorporated in island microstates. Do those nations have online casino regulators? Do they possess the willingness, manpower, and expertise to audit online casinos?
FunFair puts the gambling on the blockchain so it’s trustless – you know you have a 48.65% chance of having red come up. It’s fair.
The team. FunFair has their ground covered and bases loaded. With their team of 30+ professionals they are way ahead of the competition. You may know CEO Jez San, OBE, from his career track: Argonaut Games (founder), Star Fox (programmer), and PKR Poker (founder). He has been in the gaming industry for more than two decades, and has built valuable relationships along the way. Constantly engaging with the FunFair community through Telegram, Discord, and Reddit, it seems as though he leaves no engaging question unanswered. Alongside Jez as COO is David Greyling (
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgreyling/), former International Director of William Hill, one of the world’s leading betting and gaming companies and one of the most trusted brands in the industry. (
https://www.williamhillplc.com/about/).
Further, FunFair is looking to expand – and fast. They expect to have a team of 50+ people in the not-so-distant future, as they are currently hiring business and marketing professionals. So, if you’re looking for an opportunity to showcase your expertise in these fields, try your shot at securing a position within the company! (
https://www.funfair.io/careers) The FunFair team’s base of operations is in London, UK.
The platform. FunFair presents its casino operators and players with a gaming opportunity never seen before:
- Decentralized, serverless
- Provably fair, blockchain-based
- Trust-less outcomes that can be witnessed on verifiable smart contracts
- Instant cashouts – FunFair does not hold your funds
- Accessible through web browser on desktop or mobile
- Fun games with an exciting user interface
- Fast gameplay conducted through Fate Channels – the team’s custom version of State Channels. The Fate Channels developed by the FunFair team are superior technology. In very basic terms, Fate Channels are what supports the communication during a game session between the player and the casino. They provide a fast, low cost method for random number generation, starting gaming sessions, ending them and settling with smart contracts on the blockchain. This allows for secure, deterministic, fair gameplay. There is only one gas fee needed to start the game session. For an in-depth explanation that you won’t be disappointed in reading, please refer the the technical white paper here: https://funfair.io/wp-content/uploads/FunFair-Technical-White-Paper.pdf
FunFair is already prepared for mass adoption and has a working solution for Ethereum network congestion. Fate Channels.
For more discussion both technical and company related, have a look at both whitepapers:
https://funfair.io/explore/whitepapers/ The games. FunFair is pursuing a full suite of traditional casino games:
- Blackjack
- Baccarat
- Craps
- Roulette
- Slot machines (various types)
- Video Poker (5 card and 3 card)
- + more
You can test all of these games at
https://showcase.funfair.io/. Some are currently testable on the Ethereum testnet.
FunFair is one of the
only projects in the cryptocurrency space that has a working product. They are set to launch in the beginning of Q2 of 2018.
What have they been up to? Are they on track? Consistently ahead of schedule and on top of their roadmap in many ways, FunFair was a sponsor of DevCon 3 and had one of the most engaged-with booth setups. They connected and networked positively with many developers at the event.
https://twitter.com/FunFairTech/status/926113230677856256 They’ve recently received the Malta iGaming award for “Best ICO of 2017” which was determined by a nomination panel of 5 industry experts, and a panel of 32 judges with many years of combined experience in gaming. The awards were hosted during Malta Gaming Week; a very large event attended by many business executives, authorities, and even local government:
http://maltagamingweek.com/ They’ve been constantly updating their product showcase, and adhere to all feedback received by community members. Their new showcase was designed to “be able to cope with adding more games easily by the team + third parties, and also to be configurable by casino operators.” Some of their product update can be found here:
https://funfair.io/awards-latest-product-update/ How does the token (FUN) derive value? FunFair does not issue dividends or offer profit sharing – FunFair has no profit to share. The technology will be licensed to casino operators for free – itself a major draw for existing casino operators to adopt the FunFair platform. FunFair does not take a cut of the profits from any of the casino operators – they’re free to keep all profits to themselves. With a fixed supply, the value in FUN is derived from scarcity of the token in the marketplace. Scarcity comes from four sources:
- Casinos holding FUN as part of their bankroll (described more below)
- Players holding FUN and not cashing it out immediately after they play
- Speculators (investors) holding FUN anticipating it will increase in value
- Token burn: a small amount of FUN will be slowly destroyed over time. The exact amount has not been announced, though it will likely be quite small.
That first scarcity factor will be key, as casinos will need large bankrolls of FUN to operate a large casino with multiple games and high max bets. Think about it this way: if a casino has a roulette table with 1 seat, and a 5000 FUN bet limit, it will need to be armed with at least 175,000 FUN to let a player come by and spin the wheel (5000 max bet * 35, the max payout on roulette of a single number hitting).
Plans for the future & the latest company update . - New high-level employee added to the team: Stefan Kovach- was Brand/Marketing director for large gaming brands such as bwin and Poker Stars for many years. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stefankovach
- Development will be finished for Q1 2018, allowing for advancement in operations and partnerships at the beginning of Q2 2018.
- FunFair is in the process of acquiring their Remote Gambling Software License, which will enable them to license their technology to existing and regulated casino operators.
- FunFair has steady operational costs covered for the entire year, as well as an 85,000 ETH reserve/storage for any and all upcoming costs.
An Updated Roadmap (December 20th, 2017)
Q1:
In January we will be submitting to the UK Gambling Commission our application for a Remote Gambling Software License.
In February we will be attending ICE Gaming, an international B2B conferencing event, where we will be introducing the FunFair brand to the gaming industry.
By the end of March V1 of the FunFair blockchain casino nears completion. This release will allow for real FUN to be used on the Main Ethereum Network for the first time.
Q2:
Operator On-Boarding: Deploying the FunFair casino in partnership with a friendly operator; objective: learn, adapt & iterate the technology as part of a soft launch.
Further product enhancements and features will continue to be worked on and, as we scale, we expect to introduce more regular product releases.
Engaging with 3rd party game developers, publishing API documentation and sample games and contracts.
Q3-4:
Product feature enhancements and further operator on-boarding. Comprehensive operator reporting and administration tools.
Full update:
https://funfair.io/company-update-december-2017/ So, if you’ve read this far, you can now see how professional and enlightening this team has been with their project. I believe that within the following months, FunFair will show us exactly why they are one of the best projects in the cryptocurrency space right now and beyond.
TL;DR - Licensor of provably fair blockchain casino technology. Professional team of 30+ employees, full transparency in company actions and initiatives, proprietary technology that is near-ready for mass adoption, consistently on-track with road map. They have tackled a problem head-on with the gambling industry, and are ready to provide their solution. Strong community of both members and developers.
Special thanks to u/Commissar_ for the assistance in writing this.
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FunFair - A Game Changer for 2018. An in-depth analysis.
FunFair. An in-depth analysis.
FunFair is a decentralised gaming technology platform which uses the Ethereum blockchain, smart contracts, and proprietary state channels to deliver casino solutions with games that are fun, fast and fair.
FunFair is
not a casino. Instead, FunFair will license its technology out to casino operators. This differentiates FunFair from the competition in the blockchain gambling sphere – being a casino carries with it risks and burdens stemming from statutory and regulatory hurdles. Being a licensing entity instead, provides legal safeguards and will enable a more widely used platform.
I’d like to touch on the many aspects of FunFair that makes it an extremely promising and undervalued project. However, I won’t be making any price projections. As always, do your own research. In this case, I’ve done a lot of it for you.
The market. Online gambling is a large market: currently over 47.1 billion dollars, and projected to continue increasing.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270728/market-volume-of-online-gaming-worldwide/.
The problem and the solution. Trust. Traditional online casinos rely on you trusting them to be fair. The chance of red coming up on roulette is 48.65%. How do you know your traditional online casino is giving you those odds? You don’t – you need to trust them. Most online casinos are incorporated in island microstates. Do those nations have online casino regulators? Do they possess the willingness, manpower, and expertise to audit online casinos?
FunFair puts the gambling on the blockchain so it’s trustless – you know you have a 48.65% chance of having red come up. It’s fair.
The team. FunFair has their ground covered and bases loaded. With their team of 30+ professionals they are way ahead of the competition. You may know CEO Jez San, OBE, from his career track: Argonaut Games (founder), Star Fox (programmer), and PKR Poker (founder). He has been in the gaming industry for more than two decades, and has built valuable relationships along the way. Constantly engaging with the FunFair community through Telegram, Discord, and Reddit, it seems as though he leaves no engaging question unanswered. Alongside Jez as COO is David Greyling (
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgreyling/), former International Director of William Hill, one of the world’s leading betting and gaming companies and one of the most trusted brands in the industry. (
https://www.williamhillplc.com/about/).
Further, FunFair is looking to expand – and fast. They expect to have a team of 50+ people in the not-so-distant future, as they are currently hiring business and marketing professionals. So, if you’re looking for an opportunity to showcase your expertise in these fields, try your shot at securing a position within the company! (
https://www.funfair.io/careers) The FunFair team’s base of operations is in London, UK.
The platform. FunFair presents its casino operators and players with a gaming opportunity never seen before:
- Decentralized, serverless
- Provably fair, blockchain-based
- Trust-less outcomes that can be witnessed on verifiable smart contracts
- Instant cashouts – FunFair does not hold your funds
- Accessible through web browser on desktop or mobile
- Fun games with an exciting user interface
- Fast gameplay conducted through Fate Channels – the team’s custom version of State Channels. The Fate Channels developed by the FunFair team are superior technology. In very basic terms, Fate Channels are what supports the communication during a game session between the player and the casino. They provide a fast, low cost method for random number generation, starting gaming sessions, ending them and settling with smart contracts on the blockchain. This allows for secure, deterministic, fair gameplay. There is only one gas fee needed to start the game session. For an in-depth explanation that you won’t be disappointed in reading, please refer the the technical white paper here: https://funfair.io/wp-content/uploads/FunFair-Technical-White-Paper.pdf
FunFair is already prepared for mass adoption and has a working solution for Ethereum network congestion. Fate Channels.
For more discussion both technical and company related, have a look at both whitepapers:
https://funfair.io/explore/whitepapers/ The games. FunFair is pursuing a full suite of traditional casino games:
- Blackjack
- Baccarat
- Craps
- Roulette
- Slot machines (various types)
- Video Poker (5 card and 3 card)
- + more
You can test all of these games at
https://showcase.funfair.io/. Some are currently testable on the Ethereum testnet.
FunFair is one of the
only projects in the cryptocurrency space that has a working product. They are set to launch in the beginning of Q2 of 2018.
What have they been up to? Are they on track? Consistently ahead of schedule and on top of their roadmap in many ways, FunFair was a sponsor of DevCon 3 and had one of the most engaged-with booth setups. They connected and networked positively with many developers at the event.
https://twitter.com/FunFairTech/status/926113230677856256 They’ve recently received the Malta iGaming award for “Best ICO of 2017” which was determined by a nomination panel of 5 industry experts, and a panel of 32 judges with many years of combined experience in gaming. The awards were hosted during Malta Gaming Week; a very large event attended by many business executives, authorities, and even local government:
http://maltagamingweek.com/ They’ve been constantly updating their product showcase, and adhere to all feedback received by community members. Their new showcase was designed to “be able to cope with adding more games easily by the team + third parties, and also to be configurable by casino operators.” Some of their product update can be found here:
https://funfair.io/awards-latest-product-update/ How does the token (FUN) derive value? FunFair does not issue dividends or offer profit sharing – FunFair has no profit to share. The technology will be licensed to casino operators for free – itself a major draw for existing casino operators to adopt the FunFair platform. FunFair does not take a cut of the profits from any of the casino operators – they’re free to keep all profits to themselves. With a fixed supply, the value in FUN is derived from scarcity of the token in the marketplace. Scarcity comes from four sources:
- Casinos holding FUN as part of their bankroll (described more below)
- Players holding FUN and not cashing it out immediately after they play
- Speculators (investors) holding FUN anticipating it will increase in value
- Token burn: a small amount of FUN will be slowly destroyed over time. The exact amount has not been announced, though it will likely be quite small.
That first scarcity factor will be key, as casinos will need large bankrolls of FUN to operate a large casino with multiple games and high max bets. Think about it this way: if a casino has a roulette table with 1 seat, and a 5000 FUN bet limit, it will need to be armed with at least 175,000 FUN to let a player come by and spin the wheel (5000 max bet * 35, the max payout on roulette of a single number hitting).
Plans for the future & the latest company update . - New high-level employee added to the team: Stefan Kovach- was Brand/Marketing director for large gaming brands such as bwin and Poker Stars for many years. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stefankovach
- Development will be finished for Q1 2018, allowing for advancement in operations and partnerships at the beginning of Q2 2018.
- FunFair is in the process of acquiring their Remote Gambling Software License, which will enable them to license their technology to existing and regulated casino operators.
- FunFair has steady operational costs covered for the entire year, as well as an 85,000 ETH reserve/storage for any and all upcoming costs.
An Updated Roadmap (December 20th, 2017)
Q1:
In January we will be submitting to the UK Gambling Commission our application for a Remote Gambling Software License.
In February we will be attending ICE Gaming, an international B2B conferencing event, where we will be introducing the FunFair brand to the gaming industry.
By the end of March V1 of the FunFair blockchain casino nears completion. This release will allow for real FUN to be used on the Main Ethereum Network for the first time.
Q2:
Operator On-Boarding: Deploying the FunFair casino in partnership with a friendly operator; objective: learn, adapt & iterate the technology as part of a soft launch.
Further product enhancements and features will continue to be worked on and, as we scale, we expect to introduce more regular product releases.
Engaging with 3rd party game developers, publishing API documentation and sample games and contracts.
Q3-4:
Product feature enhancements and further operator on-boarding. Comprehensive operator reporting and administration tools.
Full update:
https://funfair.io/company-update-december-2017/ So, if you’ve read this far, you can now see how professional and enlightening this team has been with their project. I believe that within the following months, FunFair will show us exactly why they are one of the best projects in the cryptocurrency space right now and beyond.
TL;DR - Licensor of provably fair blockchain casino technology. Professional team of 30+ employees, full transparency in company actions and initiatives, proprietary technology that is near-ready for mass adoption, consistently on-track with road map. They have tackled a problem head-on with the gambling industry, and are ready to provide their solution. Strong community of both members and developers.
Special thanks to u/Commissar_ for the assistance in writing this.
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Improved Giant List of Suggestions
BitLife Suggestions - Careers:
- Self-employment:
- I’d love to see the ability to open up your own business, sell handmade products and stuff like that. Maybe add business properties to real Estate?
- stocks and investments: ability to buy/sell shares and other Securities.
- Job-related Events: maybe that’s already in the game and I just wasn’t lucky enough, but random Events that can appear according to your career with different outcomes so you can kinda „directly influence“ your job performance from time to time.
- job-related risks: what I mean is that when you’re a cop you could get injured during a police operation or when you’re in the army, you could actually be deployed to a war zone and get killed on the battlefield. Kinda correlates with the job events above.
- Supernatural investigator career
- Encounters with ghosts, aliens, ufos, etc.
- Ghost hunter
- UFO Researcher
- Cryptozoologist
- Social services
- Adoption Agent/Agencies
- Social Worker (Non-Profit)
- CPS Agent
- Espionage/Investigative Work
- Private investigator
- Detective
- bodyguard
- Spy
- CIA
- MI6
- FBI
- Body Mod Artist
- Tattoo artist
- Piercing Artist
- Black Market/Illegal
- Prostitute
- Grave Robber
- Hacker
- Loan sharks
- Insider Trading
- Alley Surgeon
- assassin
- drug dealer You could turn your house into a drug lab
- Terrorist
- Pimp
- Insurance Fraud
- Intimidator
- Probably a HITMAN or like Mafia and you could go up the ranks And eventually be Godfather a Gambino it would be cool and in prison you would get a 1 year sentence every time because of mob ties and PRISON GANGS As well as allow for professional assassins and maybe a whole new section for “black market” jobs A criminal record wouldn’t be a detriment to getting these jobs, or could even be a plus. That would simulate the spiral into crime that can happen when people can’t get gainful employment. Your spouse/kids/parents/siblings could find out and ask you to quit your “life of crime” and promise to go straight, force-resigning you from your job. If you got another crime job, it could lead to a huge reduction in relationship, or even abandonment/divorce. Different job levels could have different dangers. You could have a chance of getting addicted to the drugs you sell or being assaulted or killed.
- Politician!!!!
- Being able to take decisions for your nation once you become president... And if you make the wrong decision it could also cause a war senator, governor, President
- Fame:
- More Famous Actions: —
- social media influencer
- For music, being able to form bands or make songs and rise through the industry. Different sports as well
- Combat athlete, boxing, mma Professional athlete, (also maybe add a fitness bar, which would also affect other careers like military, along with health, happiness, smarts, and looks; also have a remarkably high salary, but would be forced to retire by around age 40)
- video game streamer,
- YouTuber
- Screenwriter
- Best Selling Author
- Actoactress
- Stunt Driver
- Sandwich Artist (Maybe be able to have similar part time jobs during high school to save for college
- Rapper
- Rock Star
- Music Artist
- Street artists
- Game show host/ tv presenter
- Esports
- Movie critic
- Model
- Fashion Designer
- Race Car Driver
- Band Member
- Anchorman Career Path
- Monarchy
- king, dictator, or other ruler (basically pays the most but is super high-risk, you’ve gotta murder people, win elections, bribe foreign governments, etc.) The 1 in 1000000 chance of being born a monarch depending on where you are born ( so not in the USA or other countries without kings and queens) it would be so cool to have millions of pounds at the start and then get to help make law and even have the chance to make international decisions with massive consequences.
- Animal Careers
- seeing eye dog trainer
- aviary worker
- Zookeeper; A zookeeper has random events that would get you killed by your animals. Become a pimp.
- Animal Breeder cat or dog breeder, if you’d buy two (male, female) animals of the same breed there could be a chance that you’d get a prompt the following years (something like ‘your pet, (pet name) is pregnant! would you like to become a professional breeder?’). imo your karma should plummet if you choose to do that because professional breeding is a dubious business
- Military & Police:
- I think the events you see happening in other countries, and sometimes even your own should actually have an impact. Like wars, soldiers should be able to fight and places like Canada could send you in as a peacekeeper if there is a war or something along that line. Natural disasters would be cool too!
- So I think the Police career is kinda dull, same with the military but Bitlife already replied to that, so, it’s kinda the same deal with the military it’s dull, I think there should be crimes that pop up etc, a store robbery, bank robbery, solving a murder, chasing down a pickpocket, all that because most of the careers where there’s supposed to be stuff happening doesn’t happen, BitLife probably already thought of this but I thought I’d might write this just to remind them, great game btw.
- Physical Laborer
- ♦️= starting position______ Miner (⛰Coal, ⛏Silver, ⚱️Gold, or 💎Diamond) - (High School) ♦️Jr. Miner ▪️Miner ▪️Head Miner ▪️Extractor ▪️Shaft Manager Mine Safety Inspector (Engineering Degree) ▪️♦️Jr. Safety Inspector ▪️Safety Inspector ▪️Sr. Safety Inspector
- Grave digger
- Refinery worker (Oil/Steel/alcohol/sugar)
- Foreman (Refinery or Construction Work; requires 5 years work experience and promotion)
- Driving Instructor
- door to door salesperson
- Contractor (requires car)
- Technician (similar to engineering but for community college graduates)
- Miner (Can be high school but miners sometimes require specialized training with safety equipment
- Part Time Jobs
- Babysitter
- 🍭Candy Store Worker▪️♦️Shelf Stocker ▪️Cashier ▪️Taste Checker ▪️Creative Consultant ▪️Store Manager
- Substitute teacher
- Tutor (requires car)
- Dog Sitter
- Retailer. MUST have events related to problem customers. Giving refunds could get you fired
- Stripper
- Waitress
- Apartment Manager
- Sugar Baby
- Taxi Driver
- App Driver
- House Sitter
- Landscaper
- Valet Driver
- Superhero.
- I get notifications saying, “You suspect your father is a superhero” and shit like that, and I want that to be an actual career. In fact, you could even go as far as having it be unavailable until you trigger a special event that gives you one of a number of possible superpowers. Maybe you could do this by, when someone comes up to you and asks to go to, say, a science expo or so. There could be a 1/5 chance you get one of the superpowers.PS: +10 points if you make one of the superpowers a reference to JoJo’s Hamon power
- Religious Jobs
- Monk
- Nun
- Priest
- Rabbi
- Priestess
- Sheikh
- Preacher
- Miscellaneous Jobs
- mime Only in France
- Homeless person/hobo
- Personal trainer
- Cam Girl
- Sugar Baby
- Used car Salesman
- Hot water heater repairman
- surrogate motheegg donor
- For real estate agent, maybe have it so they get bonuses every year depending on how much they sold?
- EntrepreneuStart your own company
- Trades Jobs
- We should have trades, for our bitizens who aren’t school smart may be more versed in trades, plus that is another way to make loads of money. You’d just have to go to community college or a trade school and choose your path.
- Blacksmithing
- Tailoring
- cooking/chef
- Fashion designer
- Scientist/PhD Levels
- Astronaut (Physics Degree) ♦️Astronaut Trainee ▪️Astronaut ▪️Lead Astronaut
- Nuclear safety inspector
- Data Scientist (Any Organization)
- Physicist (Industry or Government)
- Paramedic
- Aerospace Engineer (Would have a much greater salary than mechanical and chemical engineers)
- Chemist (Industry)
- Economist (Think-tank/Government)
- Researcher (Engineering and Science; pays lower but every year there is a small chance of a breakthrough where you are awarded $200,000-$1 million)
- Civil Engineer (Government or Architecture firm)
- Health Inspector (Government, Jr.-Sr., stops at Supervisor)
- Electrical Engineer (Same as other Engineers)
- Petroleum Engineer (Ditto, except it pays more and is harder to get into)
- Music Teacher (School or Conservatory)
- Professor (University; have to have at least ten years of work experience)
- Can get kids a full scholarship, and higher chance of entering the college despite lower smarts bar
- Plastic surgeon
- Inventor
- Epidemiologist
- Degrees and Schooling
- Schooling:
- Private School Vs. Public School vs Online/Homeschool vs. Military school (all depend on the country you are residing in)
- You could get a high chance for random injuries. If you join in high school sports teams you come get offers for pro teams when you get out of highschool. Etc etc.
- Higher expulsion rate in school, it is too hard to get expelled. Especially high in private school
- Degress
- Physics,
- Foreign Language,
- Food (or Agricultural) Science, Economics,
- Anthropology,
- Linguistics.
- Environment Science
- Can we get a PhD option and Professor career track? I think there should be a professor career path added along with a PhD option. After graduating you can be eligible for Associate Professor which starts off in the low 100s and maybe they'll get promoted to Professor which is in the 200k-300k range.
- When you choose to retire, you could get "Professor Emeritus" as a title instead of "Retired" and still receive small stipends every now and then.
- I also think there should be more options with graduate school. Perhaps if you're adding the career track, they could become a "Lecturer" and eventually "Senior Lecturer."
- Have them applicable to existing jobs or feel free to add new ones More post-college options, especially for community college. Aside from being a dental hygienist there really doesn’t seem to be much incentive for our characters to go to community college.
- Religion
- I suggest adding Religions, it will be like a pop-up, and it will appear: What's your religion? Christianism, Judaism, Islamism, Atheist, and then will occur relate events, like:
- Yeah, can we do something with the religiousness bar? I'm cool with it being a religiousness bar, but maybe there could be actual stuff to do with religion. If you want to avoid political drama it could be silly or made-up religions, or actual ones. I just figure that if there's a religiousness bar for your parents, missionaries who come to your door, and the option to make a career as an exorcist it would be cool to see your level of 'religiousness' too, maybe upon your death or something.
- A Christian woman is arguing with you because you are Atheist. /Argue Back/ /Convert to Christianism/ /Assault/ /Leave/.
- Or: Another Islamic guy is arguing with you because you didn't visited Mecca already. /Argue Back/ /Plan a trip to Mecca/ /Assault/ Leave/
- Or: Your Jew parents are arguing with you because you are an Atheist /They Are Right, I'll Convert to Judaism/ /Apologize to they/ /Argue back/
- Christianism
- Hinduism
- Islamism
- Judaism
- Paganism
- Atheism
- Rastafarianism,
- Satanism,
- Scientology
- Cults
- ! Of course, there should also be an option to believe in "Bitlifeism/Philosophy" the belief you’re an actually a character in BitLife.
- Wearing a Hijab or other type of Head Coverings
- Animals
- Enter them into competitions! Or maybe breed them
- Becoming an animal breeder is one idea.
- Also finding a stray animal and having the option to bring him/her brought home to keep as your own should be a random event.
- Bring them on vacation with you!
- I feel like an option to have 2 different dog breeds (eg. Poodle and Shih Tzu) cross breed then have Shih Poo pups would be really cool. There could also be a cross breeder in the pets section which you can request 2 different breeds to mix and have mixed puppies.
- Make them part of a divorce settlement! Like if your ex wants custody of the pet you should hire an attorney to help you keep custody or you can let them have it.
- Are alligators’ part of the exotic pets on IOS? If not, then add alligators! Also add the ability to get arrested for letting your domesticated dog or cat into the wild.
- Abandoning pets to fend for themselves should be illegal like it is in real life.
- Also, the ability for your pets run away from home and we can have the option to contact the animal shelter or put up "Lost pet" posters to have a chance of finding them.
- Another idea is the ability to rehome your pets with a grown child of your character or a sibling/grandchild/etc.
- I’ve had stray animals I’ve rescued
- Treats.
- If we buy a horse can, we have an option to participate in horse races??
- Also, training them
- -Lizards (Bearded Dragons, Geckos, Anoles, Skinks, Iguanas, Tegus, Komodo Dragons, etc.)
- -More Rodents (Chinchillas, Sugar Gliders, Capybaras, etc.)
- -Foxes as Exotic Pets (Fennec Foxes, Red Foxes, Grey Foxes, etc.)
- -Hedgehogs at Pet Store
- -Invertebrates as Exotic Pets (Scorpions, Tarantulas, Leaf Insects, Stick Bugs, Millipedes, Centipedes, etc.)
- I would love to have more Ribbons related to pets, such as ‘Animal Hero’ if you adopt a certain amount of them?
- when you take your animal on a walk you should have an option to bring your wife or your kids with you (bulk relationship points (kind of like a vacation))
- I REALLY want a tibetan mastiff, ( The most expensive dog in the world) PLEASE google it and as soon as you see it I bet you will agree with me and hope almost as much as much as I do!One went for 1.6 million but it was white. They cost at least a grand tho
- Also add in a zoo director thing and allow you to build new exhibits with animals in them.
- Dress the animals
- The animals would like or not like it same as bathe
- I’d like to be able to foster pets
- As well as personally groom them or professionally groom them.
- Make them a service dog
- Also please add more variety in animals like more reptiles maybe even tarantulas’ You guys are doing amazing
- Luxury/Money
- Please add apartments It would add so much to the game. It could be small studios all the way up to penthouses. It would also be possible to rent apartments for cheaper than a mortgage, but it would not add to your net worth.
- As well as off the grid Housing
- Also, in cities like NYC please make it basically just apartments and townhouses. And make the price really high for realism
- Of now there is not a lot of ways to spend your hard-earned riches. I would love to see the additions of more purchasable items such as:
- Yachts, they could be like houses so you could throw parties and maybe choose to go on vacation to it and choose its location. Obviously extremely expensive to buy and maintain maybe, $5M-$50M to purchase and $100k-$500k a year maintenance fee.
- Private Jets, again only for the very rich ballers of BitLife. Would make it” free” to go on holidays (maybe fly to your yacht), but instead have a huge maintenance fee. Price to purchase and maintain similar to that of the yacht.
- Art would be able to choose if you want it in your house or in a museum. It could be all from $500 for a painting to a $100M sculpture. Some may go up in value some may go down
- Watches and jewelry, every rich person need a little bling. Please add gold chains, god necklaces, diamond earrings and most of all watches with different brands and an ability to collect rare watches.
- And last but not least holiday houses, everything from a trailer in a camping for maybe $15k to a luxury penthouse in NYC for $45M depending on what you could swing
- Private islands too. But private islands depending on the location go from $4k to newer $100 million
- Add the ability to control your spending
- Please give us the ability to choose our outflow through different choices all affecting your character. Ex you could choose the kind of food,” cheap” to” royal” (don’t use these terms) where the” royal” foods would make you healthier and much happier and” cheap” would make you happier and healthier
- Then like now mortgages and maintenance costs will add on. But this would give us the opportunity to choose where to spend your money on, food, clothes, drinks, and a lot more and this could help you stretch to afford a house or really live like a king. It would also help with retiring early, if you feel you have made money enough then you could control you outflow better not making it bigger each year and being able to live of your riches without a job
- As well it could be added to stuff like dog food cat food or even an allowance for the kids
- As well as gas for the cars
- Family & Parenting:
- • Strict parents - Parents should have different levels of strictness, which is based off of their religiousness bar. Parents with super high religious bars should not let you hang out with friends, potentially kick you out of the house for coming out of the closet, and for teenage relationships, there could be a risk of strict parents breaking them up.
- • Gifts - If you have a good relationship with your relatives, they should be able to occasionally give you money as a birthday gift when you age up, without you asking for it. Rich parents could also gift you a car after you get your driver's’ license.
- I think it would be cool if we’ll off parents could give their kids allowance while they’re young. It’s hard to make money while in school so it would mean that you could make a little bit for the gym and so forth. It might also be cool to be able to get a part time job while in school. Love this game!
- I think it would be cool if we’ll off parents could give their kids allowance while they’re young. It’s hard to make money while in school so it would mean that you could make a little bit for the gym and so forth. It might also be cool to be able to get a part time job while in school. Love this game!
- Suggestions: Great-Grandchildren, Uncles and Aunts, and Calendars?
- So I was thinking of the idea of being able to have great-grandchildren, since that seems to be impossible now, and maybe there could be a "Legacy" ribbon associated with it? (i.e. for having a certain amount of total descendants as opposed to "Fertile" which is for a total amount of children). We could possibly also interact with Uncles and Aunts, which would especially be interesting in a legacy challenge to see how our previous lives' siblings are doing. ANd maybe a calendar or some way to have anniversary or birth dates and it might randomly quiz you on when your anniversary is if you fail to maintain a good relationship with your spouse to see whether or not you've "forgotten your anniversary" (since that might sometimes happen IRL too ;) ). Thoughts?
- Relationships
- I think there should be polygamic relationships (more than two people) added into the game cause it would add a nice drama and relationship building aspect and along with that add the option to have a foursome and so on.
- In most countries, polygamy is illegal, but in countries like saudi Arabia it is legal as long as it is a man and several women.
- Last one lol, step siblings/parents. If your parents aren’t together or you start dating someone, there should be a possible chance of that person having a kid or kids.
- If a hookup goes well or results in a child their should be an option to date whoever you hooked up with
- Infidelity:
- You should be able to cheat on people and have several families
- The random chance of meeting up with an ex later in life, maybe with the chance to ask them out again. Or vice versa.
- Leading on from that, you could maybe have the chance of seeing your ex with their new partner, and have the option to... I dunno, assault them because you’re obsessive and salty? Or to chat or to start an argument, or, naturally, to ignore them
- Since there are various options when your partner wants to leave you, what if there was a chance for them to beg you to take them back when you leave t h e m? Or for them to assault you, etc.
- Karen snatching yo kids, if you’re married with children and get a divorce, maybe you could lose connection with your children depending on your life choices, financial status, how many people you most likely murdered (just me?... Just me.)
- • The opportunity to reconnect with your hookup after you have an accidental child with them. Be it friendship or starting a romantic relationship, especially if you have a kid it should be an option.
- •Having a constant side-piece while you’re still married (an ongoing affair)
- •Have a constant hookup, not just a random one each time
- •Be able to reconcile with Ex’s (S/O’s or Ex-Spouses)
- You should be able to cheat on people and have several families
- Friends:
- • Best friends - when you end up meeting people at the club/in public, there should be an option to either date them, become their best friend, or neither. If you become their best friend, they could get added to your family list so you can actually hang out with them and have a relationship bar with them. Kids could make best friends, too. It would also make things a lot more real when your friends come to you for help in the game
- Friends in BitLife
- I think I speak for many when I say I’d love to see the addition of friends in BitLife, beyond the occasional pop ups of “your best friend did X” of course, or the ability to murder🔪 them.
- 🔹My thinking was that friends could start to pop up as soon as you start school at age 6. On the occupations tab, an option called “find new friends” would appear alongside the “drop out of school” and “study harder” options.
- 🔹the younger you are, the easier it would be to make friends, and you’ll be more likely to accumulate larger numbers of them.
- 🔹At age 6 for example, you could tap the “find new friends” button and you’d make 5 at once, with >90% chance of doing so — as you got older however, the number you’d make when you tap the button would decline, and the chances you’d make any at all would decline too.
- 🔹Your stats would also affect how likely you are to make friends — aka better looks, better smarts, and richer parents would increase chances — as an adult meanwhile, finances would cease to be a factor, and your following on social media would become a factor.
- 🔹the “find new friends” button would work once a year.
- 🔹Friends you make would pop up in a new section under the relationships tab. Your relationship bars with them would start out as half full.
- 🔹You’d have the usual interactions with them, like “have a conversation,” “spend time,” “go to the movies,” “give/ask money,” etc.
- 🔹Also, though, you’d have the ability to set them as one of three: Best Friend (max of 1), Good Friend (max of 5), or simply leave them as “Friend”
- 🔹to set them as “Best Friend,” you must have a full relationship bar with them — To set them as “Good Friend,” you must have 3/4 relationship bar with them.
- 🔹 Best Friends would stick around regardless of your relationship bar with them, unless it hit absolute bare minimum for a certain number of years.
- 🔹 Good Friends would stick around until your relationship bar with them got into the red, in which case they’d revert to simply “Friends.”
- 🔹Standard Friends would stick around until your relationship bar with them dipped below half, after which point, they’d leave after one year.
- 🔹Relationship bars would drain slower with Best Friends and Good Friends than it would with Standard “Friends.” Relationship bars would also drain slower the older you are.
- 🔹You could have as many friends as you want, though bear in mind maintaining all of them would require lots of interacting with all of them, which takes still, like in real life.
- 🔹While in school, if you’re being bullied, one new option would be to tell your best friend (if you’ve set a friend as that by that point), in which case your best friend would attack the bully.
- 🔹 (The odds you’d be bullied btw would go down if you have more friends).
- 🔹You may also run into a scenario where your best friend is being bullied (much like your siblings), and you’d have the option to attack the bully.
- 🔹Once you’ve hit adulthood, you would have the option to take your best friend (if you have one) on vacation if you wish.
- 🔹Another thing would be that you’d have the option to ask friends out on a date, in which case there’d be a chance of them saying “yes,” “friend-zoning” you, or unfriending you altogether.
- 🔹the closer you are with them (based on relationship bars as well as their status to you, aka “Best Friend” vs “Friend”), the more likely they’d say “yes.” Also, the number of years you’ve known them would impact chances.
- 🔹If they say no, aka “friend-zone” you, your relationship bar with them would drop slightly, but you’d remain friends regardless (unless they decide instead to unfriendly you altogether).
- 🔹This could open the door for “dating” at age 6, though the odds of one saying “yes” would be extremely slim at that age, and the chances of break up the following year would be extremely high.
- 🔹Other ways to obtain friends besides school would be at your job, once you have one — “find new friends” would be added to occupations tab for all occupations.
- 🔹Any friends made from the jobs tab would bear the same occupation as you. Also, any friends in the same field as you will see their relationship bar with you drain more slowly.
- 🔹You could also go clubbing, in which case you’d have a chance to make a new friend. Going to the gym, the library, or throwing a house party could also give that chance.
- 🔹Going on vacation could potentially give the chance to make new friends in places elsewhere from where you live, in which case you have em as long-distance friends.
- 🔹And of course, siblings would have a new “make friends with their friends” tab added under interactions — the odds of this succeeding would depend on your age difference.
- 🔹This would also be the case with your boyfriend/girlfriend/fiancé/spouse, who’d also have a “make friends with their friends” tab — the odds of it succeeding with them would be much higher.
- 🔹Lastly, you’d have a random chance of just making a new friend without doing anything each year.
- 🔹the number of friends you had during your life would be displayed on your tombstone at death, meanwhile your “best friend” as well as “good friends” would attend your funeral.
- 🔹If a “good friend” or “best friend” dies, you’d have the option to attend their funeral too, and they’d remain in the relationships tab as “late friends” for you to mourn them.
- • Long-Distance friendships/relationships through social media
- Potential New Ribbons:
- 🚶♂️Lonely — Have no friends, no wife, or kids, and ignore any family members throughout your entire life. Have no one attend your funeral.
- 👯♀️Popular — Have at least 100 friends throughout your life (at least 20 of whom you acquire during school), start befriending them at age 6, have at least 3 of them be your “best friend” at some point, and at least 15 as “good friends” at some point. Have the max number of friends attend your funeral.
- ☮️Loyalist — Maintain every friend you make from square one, and also acquire at least 20 of them by the age of 40.
- 💍One True Pair — Have only one friend throughout your entire life — befriend them at age 6, make them your best friend, if they get bullied at some point, help them — eventually ask them out, later on get married and possibly have children. Have no other friends besides that one special one.
- Also getting kicked out for teen pregnancy or forced abortions from Parents
- But with extended families the likelihood is the relationship tab will be crowded and divided into loads of sub-categories. To combat that maybe there should be a family tree of some sort. (Or even a filter of sorts)
- When you go to a vacation, besides making new friends, I would add also the possibility to meet a new lover, exactly like you do when you go to the library. And in that case the name of the person is different based on which country you go on vacation!! And then you could have the option to emigrate to that country and be with that person, but you have to marry him eventually, within a certain amount of years otherwise you are forced to leave the country, depending on that country's immigration rules (for example in Italy rules are very soft, whereas in China and USA are very strict). And I think when you go to a vacation, it could show up many other options, like "you lost your passport, what do you do?" With the possibility to be sent back to your country and to have an impact to your criminal record. Or also: "a person offered you this food or drug, what do you do?" And you also could end up in jail or just food poisoning. I think that now going on a vacation is pointless, it just improves your happiness but nothing relevant happens.
- great grandchildren
- grandparents
- aunts and uncles too!
- Cousins
- Can you have more than one child each year? Like if you’re a male can you impregnate more than one woman each year, so you have heaped more offspring?
- It is possible, in one life I got quadruplets and triplets, if you get lucky you might get twins in the first try, you have to impregnate someone younger than 18 or older around 40 to get the best chance outcomes.
- It would make sense to have a higher chance of multiples if you get ivf
- Legalities:
- Divorce Disputes:
- Custody agreements,
- finance disputes rather than the usual payment to spouse,
- LAWYERS,
- the option to separate but not divorce
- Karen snatching yo kids, if you’re married with children and get a divorce, maybe you could lose connection with your children depending on your life choices, financial status, how many people you most likely murdered (just me?... Just me.)
- We should be able to have our spouse inherit the hard assets and our children inherit the money.
- Being able to select whose last name children take. I HATE it when I play as a female and the child, I got from a hook-up has their father's last name.
- When playing as a woman 21-64 in Saudi Arabia or Iran, the icon should be the “woman with hijab” emoji. Those countries have strict decency laws.
- Being able to select in the will, leaving it all to your sons or all to your daughters. I was playing a life in Saudi Arabia and I had one daughter and two sons, and I wanted to leave it all to the sons as is commonly done there, but I had to just leave it all to one son.
- Crime
- Crimes available as early as 6- cases like this have happened in real life. I would totally abuse this option for murdering my younger siblings.
- I really want gangs!
- Being able to assault your siblings, no matter what age they are. If you assault a newborn, it has an extremely high chance of dying because it cannot fight back, and newborns are also very weak.
- More crimes:
- robbing a bank
- selling drugs.You can already sell drugs though if someone asks you in the game
- you should be able to hack into other peoples bank account the richer the person he harder to hack. and it's easier with higher intelligence
- Prison
- You should be able to trade cigarettes for safety and sleep with other inmates.
- The ability to call family members while in prison would be nice.
- Conjugal visits once a year
- Escape in a group to distract the guard
- Work out
- Try to learn or go back to school
- More Transportation Instead of Cars
- Skateboards
- Bicycles
- Taxis
- Walking
- Bus
- Subways
- Carpooling
- Realistic Stuff
- New Life:
- More things to do in the first 10 years, especially at ages 1 and 2.
- Selecting your race in the “New Life” menu.
- Adding siblings in the “New Life” menu.
- When you make a custom person or play a custom life, you should be able to edit how you want your person to look
- Babies, Toddlers, adn Newborns:
- Babies shouldn't be able to die from drug overdoses, and for kids it should be put that they thought it was candy.
- Being able to take children to the doctor.
- Newborns shouldn't be able to ask you to take them to do something- since they obviously can't talk
- Finances
- •Stock Market:
- •Own your own business
- Scams or scammers a pop up may come up saying “you have come across a ad saying [ex. Get a free smartphone!!] what will you do? [options: try it,no I won’t try it, ignore it] or “ you have got a message by a account you don’t know sending you a link to get a [ex. Free Ariana Grande tour tickets] what will you do? [options: try it, delete it, ignore it]
- •Odds for Horse Races
- • Add a store to go to where you can buy things, like food or alcohol or car repair stuff, etc. Let me spend my money!
- • Hobbies! Like part time jobs. Let me be a lawyer but also a hobbyist bird watcher or painter! Handy for those boring retirement years.
- can you add a shop in the activities so then you can take your kid there and get them a phone and your relationship will go up with them. By the age of 13 you are allowed to buy them a phone. The kids can also ask their parents for a phone. During that can access social media on the phone.
- Hobbies/skills should be added such as a singing skill which could result into you getting into the singing career
- Pensions - I think it would be a great idea to receive pensions from a company after working for one company for a certain amount of time. As of right now, when you retire, all you do is lose money.
- Specific Actions tailored to your career. For example: —Pop Star: Drop albums, Go on tour, Publicity Events, etc.
- Other
- When playing as a female, you shouldn't just be forced to get an abortion. It should instead be a prompt that says something like your partner wants to get an abortion, but you want to keep it. Will you still keep it, agree to get an abortion, assault him, or break up with/divorce him? (BTW I never get abortions unless I contract something that can't be treated without going to the witch doctor)
- •Be able to work while in high school/college
- Hospitals, Diseases, & Disabilities:
- Disabilities - Every once in a while, a baby should be born with a physical or mental disability.
- This could impact certain events depending on the disability, such as lifespan, smarts, abilities, etc. (For example: if someone is born blind, they can’t get a drivers’ license). You could also potentially get into accidents throughout your life that leave you impaired in some way
- Maybe we could have an opinion if you get in a car accident that we get into the hospital for a while and get a bit of game play inside there. Or something like that ~
- Ooo, long term hospital stays could be treated like prison. You can't work, if you're in too long you get fired, &c.
- Scenarios
- can you add a nuclear war scenario?
- And let’s say it happens you could buy a bunker. Also, it could add multiple scenarios in game!
- Or, could you add a zombie apocalypse scenario?
- Before adding zombies
- Add buying treehouses
- And hammers
- And saltlicks
- More Countries:
- such as Thailand, the UAE, Morocco, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine? Also, add Iceland and the DRC.Albania,Austria,Armenia,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belarus,Belgium,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Cameroon,Croatia,Czech Republic,Cyprus,El Salvador,Georgia,Ghana,Guatemala,Honduras,Hungary,Iceland,Kazakhstan,North Korea,Kenya,Kosovo,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Madagascar,Malaysia,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Nepal,Nicarágua,North Macedonia,Oman,Pakistan,Papua New Guinea,Paraguay,Poland,San Marino,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,Sri Lanka,Sudan,South Sudan,Switzerland,Taiwan,Thailand,Tunisia,Ukraine,Uruguay,Vietnam and Zambia.
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V. Summer Reading Group Discussion - Epilogue
EPILOGUE
1919
V.
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I
Conversations between Sidney Stencil and Mehemet the master of H.M.S. Egmont | the inconstant Fortune | what has changed and what remains unchanged of the earth, the society as a ship and its aging sailors | the tale of Mara | an undocumented part of Fausto Maijistral | and the reappearance of Veronica Manganese
HMS Egmont docked at Malta's harbour, and as the workers unloaded the cargoes, Stencil and Mehemet were having a conversation.
The master seafarer warned Stencil that were the sea to have a heart, its heart would be Malta, with beating pulses luring him away from the hush of the sea, its great silence. Yet this deceptive lull is not something to be trusted: for Fortune waxes and wanes inconstant, and so is Malta.
Armistice has been signed, soon to follow by Treaty of Versailles, but even as the wave of relief swept over the streets and even the usually sober Whitehall, Stencil, the tight-rope-walking man-of-politics, with his Stoic delusion of no safety ever at all anywhere,
especially “on this shore,” remained dour, which passed for high celebration enough.
We learn that there was currently
"an architecture of discontent" in Malta. Stencil thought about the change of time, and the falling out of
virtù, its followers like his friend Porpertine, Mizzi, and himself, who
“Belonged to a time where which side a man was on didn't matter: only the state of opposition itself, the tests of virtue, the cricket game? Stencil may have come in on the tail end.” “It is perhaps a delusion - say a convenience - necessary to our line of work. But more honorable surely than this loathsome weakness of retreat into dreams: pastel visions of disarmament, a League, a universal law. Ten million dead. Gas. Passchendaele. Let that be now a large figure, now a chemical formula, now an historical account. But dear lord, not the Nameless Horror, the sudden prodigy sprung on a world unaware. We all saw it. There was no innovation, no special breach of nature, or suspension of familiar principles. If it came as any surprise to the public then their own blindness is the Great Tragedy, hardly the war itself.” Something new, different, and terrible has come as a replacement for the repetition of wars as history like the
“old campaigners” had clung onto. As for other like Mehemet, yet another implied time-traveler, it is a displacement, a home stolen,
“a world taken from him,” only the nostalgia that occasionally rises along the nightly hashish… Stencil’s politic for him is but a shrug, a
“noisy attempts to devise political happiness.” A storm has passed over the Damascus plum-colored sea one evening. An old, damaged felucca called
the Peri was on the sea without its crew. Only one
Tuareg-speaking fellahin remained, absorbed in his task of painting the side of the boat in something like a deck-grey color. Mehemet's ship passed by, and he watched the boat and the fellah shrunk slowly into the distance.
Later on, the conversations between Stencil and Mehemet resumed. A discourse on changes (
"The only change is toward death," sez Mehemet), society as
“the Peri,” war as
“Armageddon,” “a new and rare disease which has now been cured and conquered for ever." (according to the public), and the fate of the Earth:
“The Armageddon had swept past, the professionals who'd survived had received no blessing, no gift of tongues. Despite all attempts to cut its career short the tough old earth would take its own time in dying and would die of old age.” Here we learnt of the tale of Mara through Mehemet. She was a minor saint,
“a quaint, hermaphrodite sort of deity” who was captured by the Turks. All tied up to a ship’s bow like a figurehead, she was brought into Constantinople to be a part of the Sultan’s harem, where she proceeded to
“raise hell,” drove eunuchs and concubines mad with lust, “detached” the Sultan’s head and sent it across ocean to Malta, and thus, helped La Vallette and the Knights, previously on the verge of defeat in
The Great Siege, emerge victorious. But as a divine retribution or a price to pay for putting on such a show, she was confined as a guardian spirit
in Xaghret Mewwija. But even there, warned Mehemet, she remained restless, still waiting for a chance to reach out.
Stencil, parting from Mehemet and back to his hotel, sang himself a little tune from his pre-war “music-hall” days as he relaxed in the bathtub. The tune narrated the becoming-father of Stencil, gay and expectant, renouncing his party life to go back home for his
“bouncing baby boy” Herbert Stencil.
This short reminiscence didn’t last long. Maijistral came in and we eventually learn that he has been keeping Stencil updated as an informer, keeping an eye for all activities of dockyard workers, many of them Maijistral’s friends. Stencil, fearing a double standard, followed Maijistral as he left, encountered his old friend Demivolt on the way. We found out that Stencil was not Maijistral’s only employer: another was Veronica Manganese.
The target has changed: Stencil and Demivolt were at Manganese’s tail all the way to her Villa. In the near-darkness of Malta’s night making their way around the place, Stencil felt the tug of nostalgia and an
“approaching second childhood,” “a childhood of gingerbread witches, enchanted parks, fantasy country.” Up until they were caught dead-on by a figure with a lantern,
“a caretaker” with a face grotesque enough to give the veteran Stencil a mild shock, but what more shocking was that he seemed to know who Stencil are. In a dismayed tone, the figure asked England, or Stencil’s employer, to leave him and Manganese alone.
After that Demivolt said,
"there is a tremendous nostalgia about this show. Do you feel it? The pain of a return home." Stencil having realized this was not the first encounter between him and Manganese, expected to see her again soon.
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II
Stencil and Demivolt’s speculation about the missing catalyst of the unrest | Father Fairing’s digression and exile | the plea of Carla Maijstral | the death of Dupiro the spy | V. showed herself
As dockyard workers were drummed up by both Bolshevists and Mizzists to their own purposes, the tension and civil discontent at the government swelled up in Malta’s
“false spring,” just like Carla Maijistral’s belly, but the moments for both were yet ripen.
Meanwhile, Stencil and Fairing were still seizing up each other through their exchanges. Stencil was interested only in information and clear-eyed reportings, but Fairing remained coy and elusive. It’s worth noting this: “Father Fairing, S.J., after stating that anything that tugs in the direction of anarchism is anti-Christian in protestation to Stencil's views on “Paracletian Politics”… goes on to say:
"The Church has matured, after all. Like a young person she has passed from promiscuity to authority. You are nearly two millenia out-of-date." Stencil passed over Veronica Manganese, on her way out after praying at the altar: his spy sense tingling: Fairing, Maijistral, double agents, connections between Manganese and Italian higher echelon, and even British F. O. His musing continued about history, as a
“… record of an evolution. One-way and ongoing. Monuments, buildings, plaques were remembrances only; but in Valletta remembrances seemed almost to live.” Up until
“One of Those Days” Stencil learned of Fairing’s displacement to America. Fairing assured him:
“There’s no conflict of interests.” As Stencil and Demivolt contemplated on theirs being old, as
“brothers in exile," the “Situation” was up another notch: came in Carla Maijistral, informed by Fairing, begging Stencil to ‘release’ her husband Fausto from whatever “occupation” he was involved. To this Stencil remained uncertain,
“The Situation is always bigger than you, Sidney. It has like God its own logic and its own justification for being, and the best you can do is cope.”… What are real are the cross-purposes.” As Stencil began to think about
“Is there a way out?”, the news about the gruesome death of Dupiro the ragman, the spy he installed at V.’s villa, hit his office. Stencil discovered the V./Manganese’s connection between I Banditti, D'Annunzio, and Mussolini. The living present of history here in Malta shed its guise as
“a civilized affair,” like
“the tide” threatening to carry Stencil into confronting forces no one could know.
At Fairing’s church, La Manganese stepped up at long last to greet Stencil in a familiar voice, and off they went to her villa.
Again Stencil and V. found one another,
“To enter, hand in hand, the hothouse of a Florentine spring once again; to be fayed and filleted hermetically into a square (interior? exterior?) where all art objects hover between inertia and waking, all shadows lengthen imperceptibly though night never falls, a total nostalgic hush rests on the heart's landscape. And all faces are blank masks; and spring is any drawn-out sense of exhaustion or a summer which like evening never comes.” We soon know that V. and Stencil were on the same side, having same purpose:
"to keep Italy out of Malta.” One way or another, but with different means. From Stencil’s perspective, the method of V. was
"Absolute upheaval,"… “Hysterical girl,” “Riot was her element,” “The street and the hothouse; in V. were resolved, by some magic, the two extremes. She frightened him.” Somehow, for Stencil and perhaps Victoria, aside from her pushing forty with
“a body less alive,” she was
“same balloon-girl who'd seduced him on a leather couch in the Florence consulate twenty years ago.” Later, as V.’s caretaker drove Stencil back to his place, the caretaker turned out to be Evan Godolphin.
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III
Maijstral’s affair with V. | Stencil’s “last burst of duplicity and virtù” | the June Disturbances | and the death of Sidney Stencil
With events shaping themselves
“for June and the coming Assembly,” knee-deep in the webs of relationships with Mehemet, Demivolt, Fairing, 2 Maijistral and most of all in the
“treacherous pasture” of Malta. Stencil slipped further into a progressive melancholy.
Nostalgia was the only comfort, and
“Veronica was kind.” The time they spent together were emptied out of appointments, secrets, whispers, nothing but a resume, or a reenact of their hothouse days.
Stencil thought in macro-politic scale:
“There were no more princes. Henceforth politics would become progressively more democratized, more thrown into the hands of amateurs. The disease would progress. Stencil was nearly past caring.” Yet a thought of his son Herbert rekindled the humanity left in him. He promised hastily that he would do everything he could for Fausto’s safety.
The next evening, once again in V.’s drawing room, Maijistral discovered the acquaintance between V. and Stencil for the first time, to his confusion. Here Stencil, in his
“last burst of duplicity and virtù” fulfilled his promise to Carla by retiring Maijistral from V.’s service forever.
June Disturbances happened, now known only as
“A minor eddy in the peaceful course of Maltrese government,” with its main question – the autonomy of Malta – at that time yet to be resolved.
On Mehemet’s xebec this time, now it was Stencil’s turn to depart from the stage.
“No one had come to see him off.” Except as the ship passed Fort St. Elmo, there was the mutilated face of the caretaker gazing at the ship, hand waved in curious motions both sentimental and feminine.
“Draw a line from Malta to Lampedusa. Call it a radius. Somewhere in that circle, on the evening of the tenth, a waterspout appeared and lasted for fifteen minutes. Long enough to lift the xebec fifty feet, whirling, and creaking, Astarte's throat naked to the cloudless weather, and slam it down again into a piece of the Mediterranean whose subsequent surface phenomena - whitecaps, kelp islands, any of a million flatnesses which should catch thereafter part of the brute sun's spectrum-showed nothing at all of what came to lie beneath, that quiet June day.” We Who Fell In Love With The Sea
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TRIVIA:
“Salaam aleikums” is the Arabic equivalent of "Peace be upon you".
Mehemet is an alternative version of Muhammad, which means “phraiseworthy’ or "one who praises"
Mara,
Juno, Hera, Astarte, Ishtar, Venus, Dellimara (quite an interesting article)
Among many of her symbols, there are “the crescent moon (or horns),” and “a star within a circle indicating the planet Venus.” ~ connection between morning star Sirius and Venus. “Astarte ties together fertility, sexuality, and war. She goes by the name of ʻAštārōṯ in Jewish myth as a female demon of lust.” ~ succubus Worshiped and celebrated by the ancient Levant among the Canaanites and Phoenicians, we see Mehemet talked about his feeling of Malta, understandably, in Levantine tongue.
Carob tree “Ceratonia, keration (Greek), keras, "horn" and refers to the fruit of the carob.” ~ V.
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QUESTIONS:
(1) Please share your theories about the identities of V.
(2) Do you feel that all evidences demonstrated here are sufficient enough to convince you that V. was H. Stencil’s mother?
(3) What is your impression about Stencil’s thoughts on
virtù, Right, Left, Moderate, man-of-no-politics, the Golden Mean, the street and the hothouse, and his Paracletian politics? (the transformations of politics)
(4) If the tale of Mara is a cautionary tale, what might be the lesson, aside from ‘never mess with evil’? (the transformations of gods/divinity)
(5) What did Fairing mean by “
The Church has matured,” “… from promiscuity to authority” (the transformation of Christianity/the church)
(6) What is "
the Nameless Horror, the sudden prodigy sprung on a world unaware. "? (7) What is the role of the reversions of sexes? Do you think there’re common personality traits between the transvestite Weissmann and Victoria Wren with her fetishism? (a dangerous tendency)
(8)
“But she was a teacher of love after all. Only pupils of love need to be beautiful.” What do you make of this sentence? Do you think the definitions of ‘love’ and ‘beauty’ here are reflected in the teaching of ‘the bad priest’?
(9) What do you make of Stencil’s dream of getting lost in a brain?
(10) What sort of ‘compasses’ do you think guided V. in all of her actions?
(11) Do you think Pynchon doesn’t like spring as a season? I mean “false spring” here, “reversal of spring” in Namibia chapter…
(12) Are you satisfied?
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Read this article if you haven't:
Finding V.
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An extensive guide for cashing out bitcoin and cryptocurrencies into private banks
Hey guys.
Merry Xmas !
I am coming back to you with a follow up post, as I have helped many people cash out this year and I have streamlined the process. After
my original post, I received many requests to be more specific and provide more details. I thought that after the amazing rally we have been attending over the last few months, and the volatility of the last few days, it would be interesting to revisit more extensively.
The attitude of banks around crypto is changing slowly, but it is still a tough stance. For the first partial cash out I operated around a year ago for a client, it took me months to find a bank. They wouldn’t want to even consider the case and we had to knock at each and every door. Despite all my contacts it was very difficult back in the days. This has changed now, and banks have started to open their doors, but there is a process, a set of best practices and codes one has to follow.
I often get requests from crypto guys who are very privacy-oriented, and it takes me months to have them understand that I am bound by Swiss law on banking secrecy, and I am their ally in this onboarding process. It’s funny how I have to convince people that banks are legit, while on the other side, banks ask me to show that crypto millionaires are legit. I have a solid background in both banking and in crypto so I manage to make the bridge, but yeah sometimes it is tough to reconcile the two worlds. I am a crypto enthusiast myself and I can say that after years of work in the banking industry I have grown disillusioned towards banks as well, like many of you. Still an account in a Private bank is convenient and powerful. So let’s get started.
- A. What is required to open an account in a Private bank when you made your fortune through crypto.
There are two different aspects to your onboarding in a Swiss Private bank, compliance-wise.
*The origin of your crypto wealth
*Your background (residence, citizenship and probity)
These two aspects must be documented in-depth.
How to document your crypto wealth. Each new crypto millionaire has a different story. I may detail a few fun stories later in this post, but at the end of the day, most of crypto rich I have met can be categorized within the following profiles: the miner, the early adopter, the trader, the corporate entity, the black market, the libertarian/OTC buyer. The real question is how you prove your wealth is legit.
1. Context around the original amount/investment Generally speaking, your first crypto purchase may not be documented. But the context around this acquisition can be. I have had many cases where the original amount was bought through Mtgox, and no proof of purchase could be provided, nor could be documented any Mtgox claim. That’s perfectly fine. At some point Mtgox amounted 70% of the bitcoin transactions globally, and people who bought there and managed to withdraw and keep hold of their bitcoins do not have any Mtgox claim. This is absolutely fine. However, if you can show me the record of a wire from your bank to Tisbane (Mtgox's parent company) it's a great way to start.
Otherwise, what I am trying to document here is the following: I need context. If you made your first purchase by saving from summer jobs, show me a payroll. Even if it was USD 2k. If you acquired your first bitcoins from mining, show me the bills of your mining equipment from 2012 or if it was through a pool mine, give me your slushpool account ref for instance. If you were given bitcoin against a service you charged, show me an invoice.
2. Tracking your wealth until today and making sense of it. What I have been doing over the last few months was basically educating compliance officers. Thanks God, the blockchain is a global digital ledger! I have been telling my auditors and compliance officers they have the best tool at their disposal to lead a proper investigation. Whether you like it or not, your wealth can be tracked, from address to address. You may have thought all along this was a bad feature, but I am telling you, if you want to cash out, in the context of Private Banking onboarding, tracking your wealth through the block explorer is a boon. We can see the inflows, outflows. We can see the age behind an address. An early adopter who bought 1000 BTC in 2010, and let his bitcoin behind one address and held thus far is legit, whether or not he has a proof of purchase to show. That’s just common sense. My job is to explain that to the banks in a language they understand.
Let’s have a look at a few examples and how to document the few profiles I mentioned earlier.
The trader. I love traders. These are easy cases. I have a ton of respect for them. Being a trader myself in investment banks for a decade earlier in my career has taught me that controlling one’s emotions and having the discipline to impose oneself some proper risk management system is really really hard. Further, being able to avoid the exchange bankruptcy and hacks throughout crypto history is outstanding. It shows real survival instinct, or just plain blissed ignorance. In any cases traders at exchange are easy cases to corroborate since their whole track record is potentially available. Some traders I have met have automated their trading and have shown me more than 500k trades done over the span of 4 years. Obviously in this kind of scenario I don’t show everything to the bank to avoid information overload, and prefer to do some snacking here and there. My strategy is to show the early trades, the most profitable ones, explain the trading strategy and (partially expose) the situation as of now with id pages of the exchanges and current balance. Many traders have become insensitive to the risk of parking their crypto at exchange as they want to be able to trade or to grasp an occasion any minute, so they generally do not secure a substantial portion on the blockchain which tends to make me very nervous.
The early adopter. Provided that he has not mixed his coin, the early adopter or “hodler” is not a difficult case either. Who cares how you bought your first 10k btc if you bought them below 3$ ? Even if you do not have a purchase proof, I would generally manage to find ways. We just have to corroborate the original 30’000 USD investment in this case. I mainly focus on three things here:
*proof of early adoption I have managed to educate some banks on a few evidences specifically related to crypto markets. For instance with me, an old bitcointalk account can serve as a proof of early adoption. Even an old reddit post from a few years ago where you say how much you despise this Ripple premined scam can prove to be a treasure readily available to show you were early.
*story telling Compliance officers like to know when, why and how. They are human being looking for simple answers to simple questions and they don’t want like to be played fool. Telling the truth, even without a proof can do wonders, and even though bluffing might still work because banks don’t fully understand bitcoin yet, it is a risky strategy that is less and less likely to pay off as they are getting more sophisticated by the day.
*micro transaction from an old address you control This is the killer feature. Send a $20 worth transaction from an old address to my company wallet and to one of my partner bank’s wallet and you are all set ! This is gold and considered a very solid piece of evidence. You can also do a microtransaction to your own wallet, but banks generally prefer transfer to their own wallet. Patience with them please. they are still learning.
*signature message Why do a micro transaction when you can sign a message and avoid potentially tainting your coins ?
*ICO millionaire Some clients made their wealth participating in ETH crowdsale or IOTA ICO. They were very easy to deal with obviously and the account opening was very smooth since we could evidence the GENESIS TxHash flow.
The miner Not so easy to proof the wealth is legit in that case. Most early miners never took screenshot of the blocks on bitcoin core, nor did they note down the block number of each block they mined. Until the the Slashdot article from August 2010 anyone could mine on his laptop, let his computer run overnight and wake up to a freshly minted block containing 50 bitcoins back in the days. Not many people were structured enough to store and secure these coins, avoid malwares while syncing the blockchain continuously, let alone document the mined blocks in the process. What was 50 BTC worth really for the early miners ? dust of dollars, games and magic cards… Even miners post 2010 are generally difficult to deal with in terms of compliance onboarding. Many pool mining are long dead. Deepbit is down for instance and the founders are MIA. So my strategy to proof mining activity is as follow:
*Focusing on IT background whenever possible. An IT background does help a lot to bring some substance to the fact you had the technical ability to operate a mining rig.
*Showing mining equipment receipts. If you mined on your own you must have bought the hardware to do so. For instance mining equipment receipts from butterfly lab from 2012-2013 could help document your case. Similarly, high electricity bill from your household on a consistent basis back in the day could help. I have already unlocked a tricky case in the past with such documents when the bank was doubtful.
*Wallet.dat files with block mining transactions from 2011 thereafter This obviously is a fantastic piece of evidence for both you and me if you have an old wallet and if you control an address that received original mined blocks, (even if the wallet is now empty). I will make sure compliance officers understand what it means, and as for the early adopter, you can prove your control over these wallet through a microtransaction. With these kind of addresses, I can show on the block explorer the mined block rewards hitting at regular time interval, and I can even spot when difficulty level increased or when halvening process happened.
*Poolmining account. Here again I have educated my partner bank to understand that a slush account opened in 2013 or an OnionTip presence was enough to corroborate mining activity. The block explorer then helps me to do the bridge with your current wallet.
*Describing your set up and putting it in context In the history of mining we had CPU, GPU, FPG and ASICs mining. I will describe your technical set up and explain why and how your set up was competitive at that time.
The corporate entity Remember 2012 when we were all convinced bitcoin would take over the world, and soon everyone would pay his coffee in bitcoin? How naïve we were to think transaction fees would remain low forever. I don’t blame bitcoin cash supporters; I once shared this dream as well. Remember when we thought global adoption was right around the corner and some brick and mortar would soon accept bitcoin transaction as a common mean of payment? Well, some shop actually did accept payment and held. I had a few cases as such of shops holders, who made it to the multi million mark holding and had invoices or receipts to proof the transactions. If you are organized enough to keep a record for these trades and are willing to cooperate for the documentation, you are making your life easy. The digital advertising business is also a big market for the bitcoin industry, and affiliates partner compensated in btc are common. It is good to show an invoice, it is better to show a contract. If you do not have a contract (which is common since all advertising deals are about ticking a check box on the website to accept terms and conditions), there are ways around that. If you are in that case, pm me.
The black market Sorry guys, I can’t do much for you officially. Not that I am judging you. I am a libertarian myself. It’s just already very difficult to onboard legit btc adopters, so the black market is a market I cannot afford to consider. My company is regulated so KYC and compliance are key for me if I want to stay in business. Behind each case I push forward I am risking the credibility and reputation I have built over the years. So I am sorry guys I am not risking it to make an extra buck. Your best hope is that crypto will eventually take over the world and you won’t need to cash out anyway. Or go find a Lithuanian bank that is light on compliance and cooperative.
The OTC buyer and the libertarian. Generally a very difficult case. If you bought your stack during your journey in Japan 5 years ago to a guy you never met again; or if you accumulated on
https://localbitcoins.com/ and kept no record or lost your account, it is going to be difficult. Not impossible but difficult. We will try to build a case with everything else we have, and I may be able to onboard you. However I am risking a lot here so I need to be 100% confident you are legit, before I defend you. Come & see me in Geneva, and we will talk. I will run forensic services like
elliptic,
chainalysis, or
scorechain on an extract of your wallet. If this scan does not raise too many red flags, then maybe we can work together ! If you mixed your coins all along your crypto history, and shredded your seeds because you were paranoid, or if you made your wealth mining professionally monero over the last 3 years but never opened an account at an exchange. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I am not a magician and don’t get me wrong, I love monero, it’s not the point.
Cashing out ICOs Private companies or foundations who have ran an ICO generally have a very hard time opening a bank account. The few banks that accept such projects would generally look at 4 criteria:
*Seriousness of the project Extensive study of the whitepaper to limit the reputation risk
*AML of the onboarding process ICOs 1.0 have no chance basically if a background check of the investors has not been conducted
*Structure of the moral entity List of signatories, certificate of incumbency, work contract, premises...
*Fiscal conformity Did the company informed the authorities and seek a fiscal ruling.
- B. The tax issue I am not a tax specialist, but I can say that this year I have seen it all. Again I am not judging. You made $100m hodling, and still wouldn’t pay your taxes ? Your decision.I personally advise everyone to pay their taxes, but also to be generous, to give to charities. I mean you eventually made it. Good for you. What about you contribute to make the world a better place now? I will stop patronizing you. It’s just my 2cts, and it’s your money.
For the record, I am not into the tax avoidance business, so people come to me with a set up and I see if I can make it work within the legal framework imposed to me.
First, stop thinking Switzerland is a “offshore heaven” Swiss banks have made deals with many governments for the exchange of fiscal information. If you are a French citizen, resident in France and want to open an account in a Private Bank in Switzerland to cash out your bitcoins, you will get slaughtered (>60%). There are ways around that, and I could refer you to good tax specialists for fiscal optimization, but I cannot organize it myself. It would be illegal for me. Swiss private banks makes it easy for you to keep a good your relation with your retail bank and continue paying your bills without headaches. They are integrated to SEPA, provide ebanking and credit cards.
For information, these are the kind of set up some of my clients came up with. It’s all legal; obviously I do not onboard clients that are not tax compliant. Further disclaimer: I did not contribute myself to these set up. Do not ask me to organize it for you. I won’t.
EU tricks Swiss lump sum taxation Foreign nationals resident in Switzerland can be taxed on a lump-sum basis if they are not gainfully employed in our country. Under the lump-sum tax regime, foreign nationals taking residence in Switzerland may choose to pay an expense-based tax instead of ordinary income and wealth tax. Attractive cantons for the lump sum taxation are Zug, Vaud, Valais, Grisons, Lucerne and Berne. To make it short, you will be paying somewhere between 200 and 400k a year and all expenses will be deductible.
Switzerland has adopted a very friendly attitude towards crypto currency in general. There is a whole crypto valley in Zug now. 30% of ICOs are operated in Switzerland. The reason is that Switzerland has thrived for centuries on banking secrecy, and today with FATCA and exchange of fiscal info with EU, banking secrecy is dead. Regulators in Switzerland have understood that digital ledger technologies were a way to roll over this competitive advantage for the generations to come. Switzerland does not tax capital gains on crypto profits. The Finma has a very pragmatic approach. They have issued
guidance-
updated guidelines here. They let the business get organized and operate their analysis on a case per case basis. Only after getting a deep understanding of the market will they issue a global fintech license in 2019. This approach is much more realistic than legislations which try to regulate everything beforehand.
Italy new tax exemption. It’s a brand new fiscal exemption. Go to Aoste, get residency and you could be taxed a 100k/year for 10years. Yes,
really.
Portugal What’s crazy in Europe is the lack of fiscal harmonization. Even if no one in Brussels dares admit it, every other country is doing fiscal dumping. Portugal is such a country and has proved very friendly fiscally speaking. I personally have a hard time trusting Europe. I have witnessed what happened in Greece over the last few years. Some of our ultra high net worth clients got stuck with capital controls. I mean no way you got out of crypto to have your funds confiscated at the next financial crisis! Anyway.
FYI Malta Generally speaking, if you get a residence somewhere you have to live there for a certain period of time. Being stuck in Italy is no big deal with Schengen Agreement, but in Malta it is a different story. In Malta, the ordinary residence scheme is more attractive than the HNWI residence scheme. Being an individual, you can hold a residence permit under this scheme and pay zero income tax in Malta in a completely legal way.
Monaco Not suitable for French citizens, but for other Ultra High Net worth individual, Monaco is worth considering. You need an account at a local bank as a proof of fortune, and this account generally has to be seeded with at least EUR500k. You also need a proof of residence. I do mean UHNI because if you don’t cash out minimum 30m it’s not interesting. Everything is expensive in Monaco. Real Estate is EUR 50k per square meter. A breakfast at Monte Carlo Bay hotel is 70 EUR. Monaco is sunny but sometimes it feels like a golden jail. Do you really want that for your kids?
Dubaï - Set up a company in Dubaï, get your resident card.
- Spend one day every 6 month there
- ???
- Be tax free
US tricks Some Private banks in Geneva do have the license to manage the assets of US persons and U.S citizens. However, do not think it is a way to avoid paying taxes in the US. Opening an account at an authorized Swiss Private banks is literally the same tax-wise as opening an account at Fidelity or at Bank of America in the US. The only difference is that you will avoid all the horror stories. Horror stories are all real by the way. In Switzerland, if you build a decent case and answer all the questions and corroborate your case in depth, you will manage to convince compliance officers beforehand. When the money eventually hits your account, it is actually available and not frozen.
The IRS and FATCA require to file FBAR if an offshore account is open. However FBAR is a reporting requirement and does not have taxes related to holding an account outside the US. The taxes would be the same if the account was in the US. However penalties for non compliance with FBAR are very large. The tax liability management is actually performed through the management of the assets ( for exemple by maximizing long term capital gains and minimizing short term gains).
The case for
Porto Rico. Full disclaimer here. I am not encouraging this. Have not collaborated on such tax avoidance schemes. if you are interested I strongly encourage you to seek a tax advisor and get a legal opinion. I am not responsible for anything written below. I am not going to say much because I am so afraid of uncle Sam that I prefer to humbly pass the hot potato to
pwc From here all it takes is a good advisor and some creativity to be tax free on your crypto wealth if you are a US person apparently. Please, please please don’t ask me more. And read the disclaimer again.
Trust tricks Generally speaking I do not accept fringe fiscal situation because it puts me in a difficult situation to the banks I work with, and it is already difficult enough to defend a legit crypto case. Trust might be a way to optimize your fiscal situation. Belize. Bahamas. Seychelles. Panama, You name it. At the end of the day, what matters for Swiss Banks are the beneficial owner and the settlor. Get a legal opinion, get it done, and when you eventually knock at a private bank’s door, don’t say it was for fiscal avoidance you stupid ! You will get the door smashed upon you. Be smarter. It will work. My advice is just to have it done by a great tax specialist lawyer, even if it costs you some money, as the entity itself needs to be structured in a professional way. Remember that with trust you are dispossessing yourself off your wealth. Not something to be taken lightly.
“Anonymous” cash out. Right. I think I am not going into this topic, neither expose the ways to get it done. Pm me for details. I already feel a bit uncomfortable with all the info I have provided. I am just going to mention many people fear that crypto exchange might become reporting entities soon, and rightly so. This might happen anyday. You have been warned. FYI, this only works for non-US and large cash out.
The difference between traders an investors. Danmark, Holland and Germany all make a huge difference if you are a passive investor or if you are a trader. ICO is considered investing for instance and is not taxed, while trading might be considered as income and charged aggressively. I would try my best to protect you and put a focus on your investor profile whenever possible, so you don't have to pay 52% tax if you do not have to :D
- C. The cash out itself So you have accumulated patiently a good amount of wealth. For some of us who have been involved in crypto since 2010, it took years. Remember when BTC was stuck at 200$ for months? I personally feel like it was yesterday. There is no way you screw up your wealth by cashing out in a hurry or with low security standards. Here is how the cash out takes should place.
Full cash out or partial cash out? People who have been sitting on crypto for long have grown an emotional and irrational link with their coins. They come to me and say, look, I have 50m in crypto but I would like to cash out 500k only. So first let me tell you that as a wealth manager my advice to you is to take some off the table. Doing a partial cash out is absolutely fine. The market is bullish. We are witnessing a redistribution of wealth at a global scale. Bitcoin is the real #occupywallstreet, and every one will discuss crypto at Xmas eve which will make the market even more supportive beginning 2018, especially with all hedge funds entering the scene. If you want to stay exposed to bitcoin and altcoins, and believe these techs will change the world, it’s just natural you want to keep some coins. In the meantime, if you have lived off pizzas over the last years, and have the means to now buy yourself an nice house and have an account at a private bank, then f***ing do it mate ! Buy physical gold with this account, buy real estate, have some cash at hands. Even though US dollar is worthless to your eyes, it’s good and convenient to have some. Also remember your wife deserves it ! And if you have no wife yet and you are socially awkward like the rest of us, then maybe cashing out partially will help your situation ;)
What the Private Banks expect. Joke aside, it is important you understand something. If you come around in Zurich to open a bank account and partially cash out, just don’t expect Private Banks will make an exception for you if you are small. You can’t ask them to facilitate your cash out, buy a 1m apartment with the proceeds of the sale, and not leave anything on your current account. It won’t work. Sadly, under 5m you are considered small in private banking. The bank is ok to let you open an account, provided that your kyc and compliance file are validated, but they will also want you to become a client and leave some money there to invest. This might me despicable, but I am just explaining you their rules. If you want to cash out, you should sell enough to be comfortable and have some left. Also expect the account opening to last at least 3-4 week if everything goes well. You can't just open an account overnight.
The cash out logistics. Cashing out 1m USD a day in bitcoin or more is not so hard.
Let me just tell you this: Even if you get a Tier 4 account with Kraken and ask Alejandro there to raise your limit over $100k per day, Even if you have a bitfinex account and you are willing to expose your wealth there, Even if you have managed to pass all the crazy due diligence at Bitstamp,
The amount should be fractioned to avoid risking your full wealth on exchange and getting slaughtered on the price by trading big quantities. Cashing out involves significant risks at all time. There is a security risk of compromising your keys, a counterparty risk, a fat finger risk. Let it be done by professionals. It is worth every single penny.
Most importantly, there is a major difference between trading on an exchange and trading OTC. Even though it’s not publicly disclosed some exchange like Kraken do have OTC desks. Trading on an exchange for a large amount will weight on the prices. Bitcoin is a thin market. In my opinion over 30% of the coins are lost in translation forever. Selling $10m on an exchange in a day can weight on the prices more than you’d think. And if you trade on a exchange, everything is shown on record, and you might wipe out the prices because on exchanges like bitstamp or kraken ultimately your counterparties are retail investors and the market depth is not huge. It is a bit better on Bitfinex. It is way better to trade OTC. Accessing the institutional OTC market is not easy, and that is also the reason why you should ask a regulated financial intermediary if we are talking about huge amounts.
Last point, always chose EUR as opposed to USD. EU correspondent banks won’t generally block institutional amounts. However we had the cases of USD funds frozen or delayed by weeks.
Most well-known OTC desks are
Cumberlandmining (ask for Lucas),
Genesis (ask for Martin),
Bitcoin Suisse AG (ask for Niklas),
circletrade,
B2C2, or
Altcoinomy (ask for Olivier)
Very very large whales can also set up escrow accounts for massive block trades. This world, where blocks over 30k BTC are exchanged between 2 parties would deserve a reddit thread of its own. Crazyness all around.
Your options: DIY or going through a regulated financial intermediary. Execution trading is a job in itself. You have to be patient, be careful not to wipe out the order book and place limit orders, monitor the market intraday for spikes or opportunities. At big levels, for a large cash out that may take weeks, these kind of details will save you hundred thousands of dollars. I understand crypto holders are suspicious and may prefer to do it by themselves, but there are regulated entities who now offer the services. Besides, being a crypto millionaire is not a guarantee you will get institutional daily withdrawal limits at exchange. You might, but it will take you another round of KYC with them, and surprisingly this round might be even more aggressive that the ones at Private banks since exchange have gone under intense scrutiny by regulators lately.
The fees for cashing out through a regulated financial intermediary to help you with your cash out should be around 1-2% flat on the nominal, not more. And for this price you should get the full package: execution/monitoring of the trades AND onboarding in a private bank. If you are asked more, you are being abused.
Of course, you also have the option to do it yourself. It is a way more tedious and risky process. Compliance with the exchange, compliance with the private bank, trading BTC/fiat, monitoring the transfers…You will save some money but it will take you some time and stress. Further, if you approach a private bank directly, it will trigger a series of red flag to the banks. As I said in my previous post, they call a direct approach a “walk-in”. They will be more suspicious than if you were introduced by someone and won’t hesitate to show you high fees and load your portfolio with in-house products that earn more money to the banks than to you. Remember also most banks still do not understand crypto so you will have a lot of explanations to provide and you will have to start form scratch with them!
The paradox of crypto millionaires Most of my clients who made their wealth through crypto all took massive amount of risks to end up where they are. However, most of them want their bank account to be managed with a low volatility fixed income capital preservation risk profile. This is a paradox I have a hard time to explain and I think it is mainly due to the fact that most are distrustful towards banks and financial markets in general. Many clients who have sold their crypto also have a cash-out blues in the first few months. This is a classic situation. The emotions involved in hodling for so long, the relief that everything has eventually gone well, the life-changing dynamics, the difficulties to find a new motivation in life…All these elements may trigger a post cash-out depression. It is another paradox of the crypto rich who has every card in his hand to be happy, but often feel a bit sad and lonely. Sometimes, even though it’s not my job, I had to do some psychological support. A lot of clients have also become my friends, because we have the same age and went through the same “ordeal”. First world problem I know… Remember, cashing out is not the end. It’s actually the beginning. Don’t look back, don’t regret. Cash out partially, because it does not make sense to cash out in full, regret it and want back in. relax.
The race to cash out crypto billionaire and the concept of late exiter. The Winklevoss brothers are obviously the first of a series. There will be crypto billionaires. Many of them. At a certain level you can have a whole family office working for you to manage your assets and take care of your needs . However, let me tell you it’s is not because you made it so big that you should think you are a genius and know everything better than anyone. You should hire professionals to help you. Managing assets require some education around the investment vehicles and risk management strategies. Sorry guys but with all the respect I have for
wallstreebet, AMD and YOLO stock picking, some discipline is necessary. The investors who have made money through crypto are generally early adopters. However I have started to see another profile popping up. They are not early adopters. They are late exiters. It is another way but just as efficient. Last week I met the first crypto millionaire I know who first bough bitcoin over 1000$. 55k invested at the beginning of this year. Late adopter & late exiter is a route that can lead to the million.
Last remarks. I know banks, bankers, and FIAT currencies are so last century. I know some of you despise them and would like to have them burn to the ground. With compliance officers taking over the business, I would like to start the fire myself sometimes. I hope this extensive guide has helped some of you. I am around if you need more details. I love my job despite all my frustration towards the banking industry because it makes me meet interesting people on a daily basis. I am a crypto enthusiast myself, and I do think this tech is here to stay and will change the world. Banks will have to adapt big time. Things have started to change already; they understand the threat is real. I can feel the generational gap in Geneva, with all these old bankers who don’t get what’s going on. They glaze at the bitcoin chart on CNBC in disbelief and they start to get it. This bitcoin thing is not a joke. Deep inside, as an early adopter who also intends to be a late exiter, as a libertarian myself, it makes me smile with satisfaction.
Cheers. @swisspb on telegram
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Welcome to ShareRing
ShareRing The world’s first trusted token for sharing services. One way to pay for sharing everything, no matter what it is or where you are.
ShareRing is an on-demand platform that connects the highly fragmented sharing economy by bringing together sharing services across all industries and geographies. Using our decentralized marketplace, users can securely access, connect, and pay for services anywhere in the world. We’re developing an ecosystem that is essentially the Amazon for the sharing economy.
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Partnerships
- MOBI The mobility open blockchain initiative. Alliance of almost 70% of the world's large automakers, along with many start-ups, non-profits, governments, transit agencies, and technology companies working to make mobility services more efficient, affordable, greener, safer and less congested.
- DJI Drones We are happy to announce DJI as a foundation partner of ShareRing. We will be working with them and their Australian distributors to provide an online service for them to share/rent their drones to governments, corporations, and for trade/events.
- BYD Here’s a quote from Wing You, the country manager of BYD Australia: “BYD are very excited to work with ShareRing in Australia on this project, this is also a great opportunity for BYD to show our EV technology.” BYD Ranks #1 in the world for electric car sales and will be the first foundation customer of ShareRing
- Keaz,The team behind ShareRing already has experience in the sharing economy after starting the vehicle-sharing brand Keaz in the middle of 2013. Keaz will be the first client integrated into the ShareLedger.
- YooGo, an established white label client of Keaz now partners with ShareRing. Yoogo recently launched a 100% electric car initiative through the promotion with the prime minister of New Zealand. Yoogo completed a 100 electric vehicle deployment for the city of Christchurch and will aim for Auckland as its next destination.
- For a complete list of our partners, please visit our website
Origin of ShareRing - Keaz
Keaz is the sister company of ShareRing and a global leader in white label car-sharing solutions. Established in 2013, Keaz clients include Toyota Fleet Management in Australia, Envoy of California, and YooGo who was recently promoted by the PM of New Zealand. Keaz is a private company serving (both corporate and consumer) in over 300 locations in New Zealand, USA, and Australia. We have offices in Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, San Diego, and Denver.
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- Chelsea Rustrum Sharing Economy | Innovation | Speaker | Consultant Author | Community Strategist | Marketing Expert
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- Christopher Emms Managing Partner at Decentralised Ventures | CEO TokenKey
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Collection of ShareRing articles
May
Dynamic Business Let's Talk... Competition 5/30/18
Bit Guru ShareRing Gains Tailwind From Its Inclusion Into The MOBI Automotive Consortium 5/25/18
The Bitcoiner ShareRing Partners with GTI Holdings to Revamp the Sharing Economy 5/24/18
The Bitcoin Times ShareRing is Associated with GTI Holdings to Renew the Exchange Economy 5/24/18
Coin Idol Blockchain Startup ShareRing Joins Car Makers In Bringing Blockchain To Automotive Industry 5/23/18
The Merkle What is ShareRing Cryptocurrency 5/22/18
Crypto Compare ShareRing Will Make it Easy to Share Everything 5/22/18
News BTC Uniting Airbnb, Uber and WeWork Under One Cryptocurrency 5/21/18
Finance Town Hall One App To Rule Them All: How Blockchain Will Turn Your 20 Phone Apps Into One 5/21/18
Distributed Blockchain Solutions Are Changing the Sharing Economy 5/18/18
Nasdaq Blockchain Solutions Are Changing the Sharing Economy 5/18/18
Metro Daily HK Chinese Article 5/14/18
Dynamic Business Federal Budget: startup wishlist part three 5/08/18
iT Wire Start-ups need more govt support: Budget plea 5/07/18
Dynamic Business LET’S TALK… STARTUP/CORPORATE COLLABORATIONS 5/02/18
Coin Telegraph Care About Sharing? Take Our Quiz On The Sharing Economy 5/01/18
April
Coin Speaker Blockchain Startup ShareRing is Facilitating the Adoption of Cryptocurrency 4/27/18
Self Growth ShareRing Is the Sharing Economy Reboot We Were All Hoping For 4/27/18
Crypto Vest ShareRing Banks on Blockchain to become the Sharing Economy’s Amazon 4/26/18
Self Growth ShareRing Is the Sharing Economy Reboot We Were All Hoping For 4/26/18
Guiado Bitcoin Portugese Article 4/25/18
Ethereum Kaufen German Article 4/124/18
Irish Tech News The Blockchain and the Sharing Economy: A Necessary Combination 4/24/18
Bitcoin Mag German Article 4/23/18
Bits Online Tokenization: Trend or Industry Changer? 4/23/18
Smart Company Ten Australian blockchain companies raising millions and disrupting industries 4/23/18
Cointelegraph Sharing Economy, Explained 4/19/18
Cryptocur Russian Article 4/19/18
CCN Meet ShareRing, the Dual-Token Solution for the Sharing Economy 4/18/18
Stocksmasters Meet ShareRing, The Dual-Token Solution For The Sharing Economy 4/18/18
MyTradeCryptoCurrency Could Blockchain Overcome Data Privacy Issues in Light of the Facebook Scandal? 4/17/18
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