This sounds cool. Would your company be involved/ licensed for regulatory purposes(ie money transmitter, AML,KYC) or would that fall on the customer/atm owner?

We consult in this regard, and can depending on location help with KYC/AML. But yes, it's mainly up to the operators how to handle it. But we will give them the tools to be able to comply. In most places, as long you keep tx per customer per day below 1k you have nothing to worry about.

Wow. This sounds amazing. All I was able to think of with this topic was this http://www.new-nations.net/

yeah. i thought so after I posted my comment. I'll asked my only two Russian friends. In think one of them will actually be interested in bts!

Okey. Solved. I clicked on the link of the picture, which leads to old/false information. The image itself has the correct address.

@fuzzy yes! From me no news for now. Got a horrible flu after a 22h flight from San Diego to Munich. But I will attend the first Munich Bitshares Meetup this Sunday, if anyone is interested to join there aswell.

Quote from: bitcoin42 on April 18, 2015, 11:58:03 pm

Dear Bitsharestalk members,

Before this thread turn into a witch hunting flame throwing dragon spamming ulgstamonsta, let me chip in some words here to backup the stuff "tsaishen" is slapping around your heads the past days.

My name is Alec Hahn, CEO and founder of Bitcoin42 (www.bitcoin42.com) and the freshly titled CEO of Gemspace. Please everybody understand that this is indeed a very ambitious project, and we are working very hard to be first hitters. The email communication issue was indeed a bit dumb, since a email forwarder was not set correctly to get notified about the domain registration information update.

I will soon make a more elaborated post. So please practice some patience and enjoy the ride in the meanwhile.

Best regards,
Alec

Hello Alec, I would suggest you give an emergency interview through Mumble. Fuzzy can help you introduce yourself to the community in a professional manner and give you an opportunity to expose your company and answer questions.

If you're not ready to do this then please don't be surprised by skepticism. Many people in the Bitcoin community have been burned by scams in the past.

If the Bitshares community determines Gemspace are legit then your company will receive a lot of support.

Hi luckybit,

We have talked with Fuzzy in PM, and I think Tuesday should be doable for that chat. Friday is a nice idea too, since Bytemaster can chip in, but as I said, I m traveling that day and will likely not be available.
Stay tuned.


(EDIT: Addressing the wrong person... haha. Gets confusing with so many people using avatars). Btw, someone (favdesu)  ask what positions are open. We need somebody to take care of community work, since this can get quite absorbing. There are more positions of course. You'll find that on the website soon.)

Dear fellow sailors of the digital oceans,

(Thanks for welcoming me aboard @clayop

Akado:

It indeed seems you have a location and contact info. It just needs to be checked on.

We (Bitcoin42) have been all over the news in Mexico (and other outlets) last year with our ATMs, so it should not be difficult to verify that.

Akado:

I really hope this is the real deal.

I really hope so too, since otherwise my reputation, but even more important, my skill of judgment really should be questioned if this is not for real! Right now it is not for real, but we are REALLY building it all together as I write. Many pieces are already complete and it's about making it all stick and fall into place. Some of the team members are extraordinary skill full in their areas, which is one of the reasons for me to be part of this.

Just to give you a little insight into my "Cryptocoinhistory".
Since an early age I understood that systems which are in place today are not only obsolete, but life threating outrageously dangerous, brutal and unforgivingly nasty:
Bitcoin got my attention in late 2010, meanwhile I was researching everything I could find about open source software and hardware, and decentralization. Why would I do that? Well, as a videographer and media designer I was annoyed by the limits of closed soft and hardware. And meanwhile interviewing (for the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany) over 90 scholars (mainly environmental historians) from around the world, I could hear out a common tenor in those interviews, which was that centrally planed operations made things go from bad to really bad. At this point I just love to quote Aldous Huxley, since his work resonates with me quite strongly:

Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism...

So long story shot. I personally mined for a couple of years (2011-2014), then got frustrated with the scams and stupidity of meaningless hashing, and thought about decentralized exchanges(2013), but was incapable of pulling it of myself, so I got into the CryptocoinATM business instead (now www.bitcoin42.com) with the few coins I had left from my modest mining time. In the meantime i made a bunch of contacts and found skill full talents and friends working in the same directions as I am. Mining alternatives got soon my attention from fascinating ideas such as protein folding algorithms to actual implementations of Primecoin, Peercoin, Blackcoin and eventually to Bitshares. (Bitshares got especially my interest, since I'm also very interested in the liquid democracy idea, which is being tried out by the popular Pirate Party. I think this are experiments worth while trying). Besides of Bitshares I am also a strong supporter of the work of David Zimbeck, and his decentralized markets aka BitHalo (www.bithalo.org).  So here we are now.

Akado:

Eager to know more about this project

I am pretty sure we will have the landing page ready by tomorrow, which will summarize the essentials. But to hit that goal, I really need to stay of Bitsharestalk for the next 24h at least!

All the best and stay tuned,
Alec


EDIT: Ps. I have been raised in Germany, so please forgive my grammar and spelling. Thanks