@JP
I would like to take part in the IPO, but essentially i am investing in you.
Would you mind either posting or PM'ing me your linkedin profile url?
I actually don't even use linkedin, I have a facebook profile but I don't think that's exactly credible. I wanted to avoid the complications of using an escrow but I'm open to suggestions of a trusted third party or community member who has dealt with this kind of thing before as I know that would make people feel more at ease. I know that the Heavycoin IPO didn't use any escrow and that made their life a lot easier and let them avoid additional fees paid to the escrow and delays with payment. It ended being 100% legit even though they are completely anonymous. While I'm not trying to be anonymous, I'd prefer not sharing all my private information with the world. The internet can be a nasty place. I think I'm pretty easy to find as I'm not actually trying to hide and I already have plans for future meetups in Montréal with people who e-mailed me and want to participate in promoting QBC. Other than that If you prefer not dealing with escrow I can make a video of a fully functioning Québecoin-Qt client or something like that. So with that info you'll be able to find an arrangement that makes you feel at ease with investing.
Let me know what you think!
Okay, how about detailing your plans for the coin for the short term and long term ?
You said you'd like to work on the coin full time. Are you a developer or a marketer?
What's your formal education?
Do you have a grasp on the technical issues with crypots?
Do you have a marketing team? Development team?
You mentioned a Montreal meet-up, when is it happening, maybe I can come by?
I understand that right now you have the Quebec angle, X11 and DGW, but what else?
Is that enough to survive in the jungle of cryptos?
Lets say that all people in Quebec adopt QBC, like you said that's only 8 million people. On a global scale, that's not too high.
Of course you can realistically count on 1% adoption, since only very few people know about cryptos.
I am not trying to be negative, just realistic.
Really only a few coins managed to make an impression beyond the crypo community.
(Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin are the 3 famous ones, there are other innovative ones like Darkcoin - first X11 and DGW, Primecoin - first useful work other than useless hashing, Peercoin - POS and no hard limit, Namecoin - for obvious reasons)
However, the general public has not heard about cryptos.
I have heard the comparisons of cryptos to internet circa mid-90's but im not sure i see the parallels, to replace fiat currency it will take more than a generation IMHO.
In my opinion for a coin to survive it must have a lot of services and sufficient marketing.
Block explorer is a must. Merchant tools are a big plus.
I know you will attract miners for two reasons:
1) X11 - GPU miners moving over from scrypt
2) speculators - they always jump on new coins since the difficulty is low.
But it is not guaranteed that they will stay for the long term.
In summary im looking for what sets QBC apart from any other coin to help it with long term survival.