Topic: [ANN] Ideopass Making Crypto Mainstream (Read 5951 times)

Hi Helene,

Thank you for asking,
To give a little spoiler all the tools we are building for Spells of Genesis (SOG) about connecting asset we want to make them available to other content creators. Being able as a shop to distribute loyalty points for example. And a game like Spells of Genesis might use those points to unlock a level for example. In a few words transform what we are doing into an open plateform. This will be our hot topic for 2016. Having spells of Genesis as a successful flagship product to demonstrate the power of decentralisation and the gamification of everything. There still a lot to do in that field and we are bringing brick by brick. So far we are building the best experience possible for non-bitcoiners.
We scheduled the first prototype of the card for end of this year but we are a little late on schedule focusing our efforts to make SOG awesome in order to have ideocards as appealing as possible to mainstream users.
Right now we are building the business model of purchase and accumulating points as easy as possible mixing what people are used to (Apple Google in app purchase) and progressively bringing to a decentralisation and wallet creation.
Stay posted there are going to have moves here in 2016

Hi @yodark, I just remembered the Ideopass was supposed to be part of the perks people that participated in the Spells of Genesis Tokensale would get. Could you please give an update on the development progress of Ideopass and when we can expect to receive our cards and be able to actually use them? I think this will make the blockchain based game much more accessible to mainstream gamers so I hope this will actually be implemented in SoG as well as the other applications you have envisioned.

Hi! Thanks for your support, we really appreciate it. How did you find out about Ideopass and our card games?

Gotta kep an eye here. Your card game seems like an ambitious project but I gotta say that I love the concept of this project too. Bitcoin needs services that provide ease of use. Mass adoption could help both your project itself benefit greatly from usage but also the bitcoin ecosystem as a wehole. Watching, genuinely interested.

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Hi Schild !

Thanks for asking !

At the moment we designed a multisignature easy and secure way to access your funds and assets with the ideo card.
It secure someone funds but it's tolerant to basic users needs, like forgetting the password, losing the card etc. And at the same time it's trustless so we (ideopass) do not have access to the user funds.
The model works pretty well and give quick simple and secure access to a counterparty wallet where you can store any kind of digital asset.
We (ideopass team) are still unsatisfied by the fact the application opens the counterwallet and it's interface is functional but not user friendly. We are willing to give user a seamless experience because we believe technology must be transparent abstracted and easy to use.
For this reason we are developing our own mobile wallet system that looks better for mainstream user.
We are also in negociation with potential partners who are interested to integrate the technology and could give an accelerator to the development.

From me specifically and for EverdreamSoft my company as we are a game company, we are working on a new game where all assets are stored on the blockchain. Allowing people to buy and sell their digital assets. We are also integrating blockchain technology in our current card game Moonga.
http://www.moonga.com
Somewhere next week players will be able to buy cards in a decentralised way. Player account are linked to a public key. According to the asset on their wallet they will have access to

Since our game user base is not familiar with crypto currency it's crucial for us to offer them a system easy to use. We want to convert thousands of our user to adopt ideopass and get an effective wallet where they can buy new cards from us and trade among themselves.

So ideopass team (including myself)

is working on designing a simple way for people to store, buy and trade digital assets. Make the crypto ready for mainstream

Myself

Designing services (game) that will use ideopass and make sense for people to use crypto assets

What are you guys working on atm?

Hi, my name is Hnin and I work for the Ideopass team. I'm here to answer any questions you might have about the Ideopass project!

Hey sure !

Yes now we are working to get interesting people on board. We are conducting negotiation with some people who can give credit to the project.

We also developed in japan because at EverdreamSoft we have good traction there. We will implement a payment prototype in a restaurant in Tokyo as well as Geneva.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ideopass-Japan/1487507881533409?fref=nf

https://twitter.com/ideopassjapan

We also start working with coincheck in Japan



Actually or goals are

Close negotiation with early coin buyers
Deploy test shops with ideopass
Prepare the communication strategy for the public crowdsale !

Bump! Yodark, could you update the community about this project?

Thank you origin12 for asking

I'll change a little bit the denomination and be a little more specific.

The Angel phase is the phase name where the coins are sold for a lower price.
During this period we are making one to one discussion with people who wants to buy coin.
Buying coins is not considered as in investment and doesn't make people investor in the project in the legal sense.
BUT
We are in discussion with several people who wants to buy a large amount of coins 20'000$ in this specific case we propose them to enter EverdreamSoft capital. But it's a discussion that we have directly with involved parties.

What does an angel investor mean?

Updates :

The bitcoin hunt is getting pretty popular and has moved to it's own topic here : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/game-bitcoin-hidden-chest-round-12-30-mbtc-749911

other for those one of you who live in Geneva we are organising a meeting in our office to present our latest development achievements and how the community can contribute to the project. It's going to take place the 10th of september. If some of you can join please let me know by PM.

Otherwise we are closeling looking and waiting to see what's apple is preparing in term of NFC payment. We are waiting the announcement to see how we can take advantage with ideopass
http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/28/6078359/iphone-6-will-feature-nfc-and-apple-mobile-payments

Since some of you are very interested with the project development

We seriously set up our twitter account

https://twitter.com/ideopass

To celebrate I offer you a little game :



The public key : 1ANc8fhSj9RS7mjNBKeDQU5TZmbpqK6rq1

This a BIP38 encrypted private key with 0.0313 BTC about 15 USD at this time

Hint 1 : the password is not to hard to guess

We you've found it please report me

Very interesting project...

Hi everyone,

Sorry for my late answer we are busy preparing everything

There are a lot of interesting things happening.

We are working on creating our community platform.
We are soon going to release a forum very soon as well as an ios and android app to stay connected with the development.
The app will show how many coins people own, what is being done on the development, open bounties etc.

We are actually selling coins for the second phase Angel and we get a lot of interest even for people that are not in the crypto currency ecosystem.
The goal is to get people who can give their knowledge and credibility. We have several shop here in Geneva Switzerland who wants to use ideopass.
People from SBEX the swiss company that got green light for their bitcoin operation for the gouvernement bought some coins and we are exploring collaboration and the way we could leverage synergy
SBEX ref article
By the way if someone wants buy early coins and be a part of the project just let me know and we'll start discussion from there

We are also working on the card production. We received the first prototypes :



Our next steps are now

1. Releasing the community tools
2. Finish raising the funds for the angel phase
3. Prepare for the public sale and set up everything (communication, partners, legal)

Might be interesting to explore do you have contact to people who are directly involved that I could contact to evaluate the opportunity before creating a topic on the forum ?

hrmm very interesting, i will definitely keep an eye on this here

This is a swiss project. Huge opportunity from a company with recurrent media exposure.

if you can add NXT?
here is the NXT forum https://nxtforum.org/nxt-projects/
[NXT] Nxt - Official Thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nxt-blockchain-platform-proof-of-stake-official-587007

We now finished the first phase and we are entering the angel phase

Nice video here : http://youtu.be/cwu5yYecvGo

The product: Card

Ideopass is a standard credit card size payment card with an NFC chip inside and a QR code to be scanned by non-NFC devices (iPhones). Note that the QRcode will replace the NFC interactions.
Each card is related to a user account. When a user receives his first card he will download Ideo application, create an account with a strong password and link the card by scanning it. Then whenever the user scans the pass, the ideo application will automatically open and display the user’s account balance. Like Paypal, the account will show the balance in the currency he is comfortable with – e.g. USD in the US and CAD in Canada. As you can see, there is no mention of bitcoin here.

If you scan someone else’s card that person will be added to your contact list. Then you will be able to send any amount of money in any currency (just like paypal). If you buy something from a merchant implementing ideo API, the payment is made fun and easier than ever. The website will present a button "pay with ideo". When you click on it your phone will magically wake up (with a push notification) and if you touch your card with the phone the payment is made instantly. As you can see here, the online payment feels natural and painless while you don't link anything with your bank account credit card or what so ever. Many people are afraid of making online payments because it's linked with their credit cards.
Any merchant has the choice to accept ideo card. The only device they need is an NFC-compatible device (phone or tablet) and an internet connection. Unlike Paypal and any other payment system, transaction fees are free. The user give his Ideopass to the merchant and the merchant debits the card and the confirmation is sent to user's phone.

So what is the business model ? How do we make something sustainable with 0% or negligible fees ?

After each payment to a merchant, the user has the choice to pay anonymously or get points. If the user wants points, he agrees to allow the merchant access to demographic data. In counterpart, the merchant can easily set up promotion in ideopass back office. For example, if someone buys 10 coffee, they get 1 free. If they spend 200 USD, they get a free gift. The user will be able earn several badges and experience gamification aspects.
The user will be able to "follow" their favorite merchants like in a social network to see how many points he has with the merchant and get special offers. While accepting the payment is completely free for the merchant he will need a premium account to have access to market data reporting and some special features.

And what is the link with cryptocurrencies?

As you can see we are not talking about bitcoin. Bitcoin needs an abstraction to be used by the mass market. But as you've maybe already understood, the system doesn't use the blockchain for transactions inside the ideo network. In order to put money in your account, you have to use bitcoin and if you want to withdraw your money in cash or anything else, you will use bitcoin system.
But let’s say as a user, you don't understand anything about bitcoin. How do you put money in your account? Bitcoin works under the hood so you could ask any marchant confortable with bitcoin to recharge your card. You will give the cash to the merchant or tech geek and he will buy bitcoin for you and send it to your ideo account. For the user the operation is transparent he didn't ask for bitcoin or whats so ever - he just asked for a refill of his account.
With the money the merchant receives he doesn't have to go to an ideo branch, he can use any of the bitcoin buyers.

Crowdfunding

The ideo project is a project by the people for the people - anyone can be a part of the success and benefit from the success. For the project, we are going to create ideocoins. People that are working on the project and people financing the project will receive coins. The board of ideo will vote for the CEO and important decision the board is constituted of people with the most ideocoins. This means that if the initial team decides to dump all their coins to cash out. The project will be transferred to the other investors. This way the project cannot die until there is at least one person believing in it.

When the project is released, the premium membership will cost a certain amount of USD per month. For example, 100 USD a month. But the premium membership has to be paid in ideocoins and the number of ideocoins required is the market value for 100 USD. This higher the demand for the service, the higher the value will be for each ideocoin.

The development and the financing will follow these steps:

1. Phase One : Under The Radar

This is the phase we are in. In this phase, the initial team is working on the business plan, the logo, marketing material etc. The goal is to convert an idea in a solid project and give it credibility. This phase is the more rewarding phase for an hour of work or a dollar invested. It's also the hardest phase where we need to motivate people to work on a project while receiving "fictive" money.
I've got several interesting people on board. The people that will be on the board will be people who gave the biggest effort in the project.

I've now united a good team of technicians, marketers, influential people, flagship merchants etc.

People investing time or money during the founder phase will share 20% of total coins created during the crowdfunding phase. Each founder will receive a proportion according to their investment in cash or time.

2. Phase Two: Angel Phase

This phase will start just after the business plan, the website and the marketing plan are released. The project will look much serious with a professional financial plan and look and feel. Then we are going to raise money from angel investors and we will go to find cryptocurrency angels with the proposal. They will bring their credibility and expertise to the project. In counterpart, they will receive ideocoins with a preferential price. The Angel phase offers coins for sale for anyone - we do it on a one-to-one discussion.

3. Phase Three : Public Offer

We sell ideocoins to everyone sending bitcoin to a specific address.

4. Phase Four : Development

We will use the money raised to develop the product for about a year. About 3 months after the public phase we are going to sell open free trade market between currencies and ideopasscoin.
After a year of development the product will be ready. During this phase, the project will raise money from VC in order to hit the international market hard.