There is no evidence that there is an 8 million Euro per year company behind this.
Only counter-evidence: that they can't bribe exchanges, or get anything done by themselves.
No there isn't.
There is a declaration but there is no evidence at all.
I would like to invite you to join the Coin(O) community and get behind this coin to see what we can do as a community. Forget the debit cards and everything else. We are what matters,
I would like to think the devs are behind us, and that what we do will drive coin(O) forward
I have to admit that an 8 million dollar a year company would post pictures of its offices, its name, etc if it was interested in actually being "behind" the coin. I would expect that if it ever had anything to do with such a marketing company, that it was a junior tech that worked at the company keeping their office equipment running.
As far as debit cards go... the original road map was not realistic. From everything we know about the crypto community no real bank will touch the stuff with a ten foot pole. The idea of having a magic debit card that works in every single country in the world is unrealistic. When questions were asked about where it would work and on what system, the answer was always "everywhere" and "everything". That just isn't real world. If it seems too good to be true... then it is.
What I see of this latest discussion is everyone wanting the coin to go up in value so they can get out. No coin will go up in value long term simply because we promote it in a few threads online. That is NOT what made bitcoin worth more money. It was the coin be useful for something... anything...
I would love to hear ideas from the people here about what could be done with the coin to make it worth something. Promoting it and advertising it is not a plan in itself. Promoting something its good for is totally different. But, there are not a lot of examples of what its good for yet. Please post ideas that could be made to work.
What I've been working on with our development team (which is NOT the Coino "team")... is a POS system similar to what is offered in the bitcoin world. The difference of course is the processing time. Cost is also different - the prototypes are around $299US and in production that cost would come down a little more to $250US. At the moment I have three working prototypes that can use magcards and chip cards. The platform isn't specifically tied to Coino, but that is what we have been testing it with.
The magcards are more of a gift card concept that use "set value" Coino. For example, you buy a $20 card and its worth $20 later no matter what the price of the coin did.
The chip cards are real wallets that contain the private key. You can load them with a Coino address and spend them at the current exchange value.
Remember that 99% of the world actually wants these systems to be fixed value. Its only us crazy net types that like the idea of moving value. So, the system appeals to both.
The true value of making such a system is not the coin that it runs on. The value is in the network of people around the world who are available to promote the system and sell it to "regular people" who don't show up on these forums and haven't fallen in love with digital currency. If one in ten people who work with bitcoin manage to sell the POS machine to a single business... thats still thousands of businesses able to use it.
That is the type of marketing that makes Avon, Mary Kay and all the others rich....