Hi everyone.
I am Miko from Evercoin and I'm happy to answer your questions.
The People Behind EverCoin
I'm happy to see people on this board looking at our service with suspicion, this is normal and the community needs to protect itself from scammers. We
do show our own faces and linkedin profiles
on the front page of our exchange. Yes, it is possible that people are just using the identities of others. We are obviously not so prominent or famous but I do have a number of fairly prominent people in crypto who could vouch for us or who have met us including general partners at Pantera Capital, Jackson Palmer, originator of Dogecoin, Robert CEO of ZenCash, Zooko from Zcash and many others. I know these aren't necessarily the gods of crypto like Vitalik Buterin, but I havent met him so he can't say if I'm a real person or not. I am one of the organizers of the SF Advanced Crypto Asset Trading group and Crypto Underground meetup, so 3500 people in that community know who I am at some level. Anyhow, I welcome the suspicion, I hate scammers as much as anyone and feel like everyone who asks you to "send bitcoin to this address" deserves to be checked out. I've been in Silicon Valley for 25 years working in tech.
Check out our Linkedin here
Miko (me)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikomatsumura/Talip's linkedin is here
https://www.linkedin.com/in/talipozturk/Yasin's
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasin-tamer/Ahmed's
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmet-alptekin/Ismael's
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismaelkose/Talip created the open source project Hazelcast.
https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast a github based Apache open source licensed project with over 24,000 commits and 143 committers.
Evercoin Domain NameLet me explain the domain name. We originally launched under the name "Hazelcoin" because the founder Talip Ozturk previously created the open source project Hazelcast. We decided that this was not a great name for us, so we did some searching for a good name.
We ended up liking the name "Evercoin" because we feel like there are too many people in this space thinking short-term. We would like to create a built-to-last company and service. So "Ever" is a nice feel, like forever feeling, and trustworthy, which we feel is important. The domain was for sale on Sedo.com and we purchased the domain through them. So the domain existed in the past, but it was for sale. We liked the fact that the domain ended in "coin".
Honestly, we are a BRAND NEW service, so there are very few reviews.
Here is us on Product Hunt
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/evercoinHere is our Blog
https://blog.evercoin.com/We need to get more reviews. it will take time to become a trusted and reliable member of this community, we get it. We will keep working hard to earn your trust.
If you want to see our offices, this is what it looks like:
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*5NMG03OXtNCUzXnKYjQr-g.jpeg for some reason this image isnt embedding... click if you want please.
Meet us better on this blog post
https://blog.evercoin.com/meet-evercoin-exchange-4506f8975459 Happy to answer any other questions you all may have.
How to start
As with any crypto service, start small. Just try a very small transaction to see how the system behaves. It's a fully functional system, so you'll immediately get the feeling of that. And yes, do your homework.