Hey all,
This last year has been a great ride. Developing groundbreaking and never done before technology is something extraordinary to do. We are all part of something unique here. Unlike other crypto projects we have proven that we continue to develop and keep looking forward. With all efforts we put in it and with all the money we can (privately) spend. This team, this project is a winner. Not just because of the team, but also because of the people backing the project and last but not least: we are a winner because of the technology we are creating.
Unfortunately for some of you the developments are not (yet) paying out in respect of the I/O Coin price, but we remain very confident in what we develop and what our future is. We have a clear focus on what we are trying to achieve. Focus is key. That will payout eventually in a price that represents all our efforts. Despite the (alt)cryptocurrency (de-)valuation, our developments are very valuable for us and potentially very valuable for others. We have something unique in our hands and get the confirmation all the time from potential investors and blockchain adopters.
From development point of view, the last few weeks we are finishing the API calls needed for the HTML5 wallet.
Next to that a testnet is being setup to test all the changes and coding we did. We are > this < close! After testnet and API finishes, we make the final changes to the HTML5 wallet and start our beta test and bug fixing. We have no timeframe for this last stage, because it is extremely difficult to predict what we will encounter. But all is looking good despite the time it takes. Thanks for your patience.
From I/O Digital perspective we have said that we are looked at by many companies and investors. There are no deals yet. I/O Digital needs to change their status from a youngster to an adult by means of creating an official company around I/O Digital with I/O Coin / blockchain as an asset. In this way we get to the next professional stage and possible investors and/or technology adopters will look at us with a different perspective.
In matters of business development these are exciting times.
We have personally talked to KPMG the last few weeks for example. They have blockchain technology on their roadmap and are looking for initiatives to help out. With investing development funds, people / knowledge or even help out with technology. They now watch us closely (we need to have a working proof of concept for next phase) and we are in close contact with them on a weekly basis. We have also talked to startups and established international companies that want to use the I/O Digital blockchain and/or create their own token based on the I/O Digital blockchain technology. In January one of them will launch their beta app and we are still talking to them how we can help out. This looks very promising.
Next week i have an important conference call with a venture capitalist that is genuine interested in I/O Digital. They are known as one of the largest incubators / investors of Bitcoin / Blockchain related projects / companies. They contacted us. We have created an investment / business plan for them to consider and we are going to talk about that the next weeks.
So we have a lot going on. Technology development and business development.
We continue to work on the roadmap we have (
www.iodigital.io/roadmap ) and are confident that our goals will be met in 2016.
Again thanks for all of your continuous support. Take care.
Merry Christmas!
Richard
WOW !
MERRY CHRISTMAS and
HAPPY NEW YEAR this is a wonderful gift.
I honestly did not expect any updates for a while due to time of the year, so this is a great surprise. So much juicy info, its going to take me some time to take it all in.
For anyone who wants to know this is the Wiki page for KPMG >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMGTheir revenue for 2015 was
24.44 BILLION ! So very interesting to hear they are looking at I/O Coin / I/O Digital.
The meeting with the Venture Capitalists sounds very promising also. Take note of the fact it was "they" who contacted IOC Team, that speaks volumes about the hard work being done here. I check many alt coins and honestly do not see one that has a bright future that IOC clearly has.
Lots and lots of great information, information which can only be given, by serious developments, hard work and unrelenting commitment to creating a powerful and world wide respected blockchain "product".
So A BIG THANK YOU to all the IOC Team, you guys are the BEST!