You value a company over $500k with no record, no sales and not yet fully functional exchange?
Do you have a working demo that you can show to potential investors?
To accept fiat deposit and withdraw, you will need a money transmitter license. Do you plan to acquire the license? And how much does it cost to acquire such license in UK?
We have a working demo, bank accounts and hardware.
We don't need a license in the UK, although we will be getting one. That costs £50. Yes, a whole £50.
For US and Canadian customers we are hoping to work with Crypto Financial, they do have the licenses.
1) The sign up script doesn't appear to be working. Could you repost the link with proper email verification method?
2) You sure you don't need money transmitter license in UK? For US, last I check, to operate with full compliance in US, you will need to be licensed in each state. That is the reason there is no major exchange in US. I am not familiar with Cryto Financial, if they have license in US and Canada, why they offer a partnership with you and not run their own exchange? What incentive do you offer them that they can not do themselves?
3) For the 500k valuation, what is the cost breakdown for the platform, hardware, development cost and other expenses? To compete with bitstamp, btc-e and bitfinex, what is your competitive advantage over them? How do you plan to market the exchange and gain trust? What unique feature do you offer to make people use your exchange? And most importantly, what the the expected dividend payout for investor?
1) Its not, we have a private section which we're currently using for dev. If you want to see a functional demo of the script go to
http://demo.wlox.io2) Yes, I am sure. Very sure. As for US, you are correct. The license they have is not to operate an exchange, I can't remember the name of the license precisely but it allows them to essentially escrow funds. They don't run any exchange they just hold the funds, and that is the benefit for them.
3) Hardware, and development is already covered. Raised enough to do that. The other significants costs (pre/shortly after launch) are security and colocation which total around £7000 to be done to the standards which I want to hold it to. Once we have significant volume another cost will be legal counsel, more specifically a part time compliance officer and an expensive solicitor (or someone who can fulfill both roles). We already know where we will be going for those.
With the current amount of investments, and the planned weighted dividends it would take a 8.5BTC worth of dividend payouts to receive ROI +30%.
Incentive has been described a fair amount, but in the UK we have instant, free bank transfers. That is huge to a lot of people who currently have to send expensive/slow SEPA/SWIFT transfers. We can also accept one day transfers in Australia, SEPA transfers in Europe and SWIFT everywhere else. Over time, more importantly once we have the volume to support it we will add things like margin trading as well as providing merchant services.
Later on we will start providing second tier financial services, assuming the law allows it.
1) The started date of this IPO dated April 24th. The link you provided belong to someone else. How much longer do you need to let potential investor see a fully functional working platform?
2) Campbx, based in US, has a fully functional exchange (and customer) without the license; Cryptsy (US based) also have a fully functional exchange that is running without license to handle fiat, why Cryto Financial approach you and not them?
3) The exchange platform, is just a front end portal to run the trade engine and account for balances. What is this security issue you speak of which need co-location? What is the nature of security threat for an exchange?
4) You have not address the issue of competitive advantage. For any user currently using an exchange out there, why would anyone use a brand new exchange without trust? Bitstamp is located in Euro zone, SEPA transfer already work for bistamp. As for people in Australia, they can use itbit, bitfinex and coinjar with same 1 day wire transfer. Merchant service is already covered by bitpay and coinbase. And margin trading is covered by bitfinex.
5) The 8.5 btc worth of dividend, how do you derive this number? What volume and fee are needed to get this amount of dividend? Is the 8.5 btc being divided by the 500k company valuation (which amount to around 1% ROI). Also, what is the expected monthly expense to run a exchange capable providing 30% RoI?
6) Since this is an IPO, can you provide the names of those who already joined in? That could instill confident to those who may want to join in.