congratulations Opal-Team and Altcoin.center
Thank you! =)
Keep on going men ! you are building, as "absolute garbage", the best things we can wish to humanity:
Peace (using wisdom to manage screaming times)
and Progress (achieve dreams).
Hehe, well it's not the first time when the most ground-breaking stuff comes from those considered to be the scum of the earth.
To clarify things up a bit regarding the F-Secure deal, here's some background information on how it came to be.
Back in the 90's when F-Secure was still DataFellows, both me and several of my friends were working for the company. I was merely a technical customer care specialist (and only for a short time - I was too much an entrepreneur to stay in one place;) but many of my friends had quite significant roles. It was during that short period of employment when I also became personally acquainted with Mr. Mikko Hyppönen, and the connection between us has prevailed over the years.
Mikko is a very clever guy with sharp vision and an open mind, and we've had discussions of a wide array of different ideas and possibilities - including crypto currencies. When I first asked him (last September) if F-Secure would be willing to start accepting Bitcoin, it turned out they had already given it some thought and were indeed interested in the idea but had not yet had the time/motivation to try it out.
Few months went by without much progress on this front, but when the hacked/trojaned OPAL wallet came around I wrote Mikko again and proposed a resales pilot. He forwarded me to the sales department equipped with his approval, and after some further discussions Altcoin.Center and F-Secure made a resale agreement. Although the deal is not limited to OPAL, it is OPAL that kicked this whole thing off and thus it's also OPAL that I chose to be the first and foremost currency for the pilot.
If things go well, i.e. if F-Secure can see that the crypto scene is worth investing in, it is quite possible that we'll see many new security-enhancing innovations coming out of this co-operation. Alongside with the resales program, I'm also negotiating with F-Secure about possibilities such as adding selected crypto wallets to DeepGuard's database of known applications.
I wish to emphasize that what you're seeing are just the very first steps, and that while F-Secure is definitely interested in crypto from many perspectives ranging from technical to financial, a full endorsement is yet to come. In order to make that happen, we need to be able to show them there is real business to be made in the scene - in other words: we need sales to me made.
The generous discount price of only 40 € (one year for
three devices) is valid as long as the stock I received from F-Secure lasts. You can place an order according to the instructions at
https://altcoin.center/safe/ right away, and there's also going to be a proper online store at the Opal web site very soon. Ten per cent of the sales will go directly to OPAL development.
The possibilities at hand are really quite a significant, and your support is needed to make the best out of it. If you need top notch security for your Windows, OS X or Android device, this is an excellent opportunity to get just that at a very decent price while supporting the pilot and thus the whole crypto scene.
- Jyri
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Altcoin.Center
F-Secure was the antivirus i chose in 
