It seems a good ICO with a strong team. But I still have some questions.
Although I dont believe p2p insurance is a sound business like p2p lending, especially in the cases where insurees need service help from the insurer (not just the claim payment) and with this perspective it is more realistic that Insurex builds its business proposal by including insurers and reinsurers, but this comes along with some fundamental problems. First of all, by recreating entire insurance business on a blockchain but with all the actors remaining the same, actualy it is not decentralization of the process but perhaps increasing the efficiency and hence lowering the operational cost. Insurex can really do this by making insurance operations on blockchain and so eliminating the cost that arises from trust issues between the parties. If this is the case, then we should determine how big the cost savings that Insurex targets, because that will show us the potential market of Insurex. We have to know operational costs both on global scale and in Europe (because Insurex initially targets European insurance market). Then we can assess the real value proposition of Insurex. Also, if Insurex explains its plans to expand to markets other than EU then we can also have an idea of present value of its longer term operaitions.
I believe Insurex with its core and advisory team has the capacity to handle with EU market. When they try to expand to say US or Middle East, the regulations will be different. So even they achieve to make insurer partners and draw insurees' attention in those regions they need to persuade the regulatory bodies. Because, If Insurex will store personal information on the servers located in London or even on blockchain and not on the local servers then it might lead to some legal problems. How will they cope with them? If they cannot do it and stuck in EU market, then, is the value proposition still good?
I understand business issues better and I am not a tech-savy person. There is one thing that I believe people over here can easily help me.
Considering ICOs generally, if investors buy the tokens as an investment tool and if the platform operates on those tokens, then, dont these two interests contradict each other? If everybody hoards the token then how can platform operate? I have the same problem with BTC or ETH as well. If everybody holds their BTC as an investment tool, doesnt it kill its value proposition as a payment and money transfer system? Lastly, when I read through explanations here, I understand there are some whales who buy big chuncks so that small investors are left out of the game. How much on average (as a percentage of the transaction) should I have to pay as a fee to make sure my transaction will go through?
Thank you.