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DO GIFTCARDS MAKE CENTZ?


Do you have unspent gift cards? Are you still worried about the remaining balance in gift cards that cannot be used totally? Gift cards are the most popular form of a prepaid product sold in the USA. In 2016 alone, $160 billion dollars of gift cards in the United States, and $750 billion worldwide, have been sold, and up to 20% of them have never be redeemed. Centz, based in Denmark is the first company to leverage and apply blockchain technology to fundamentally change the gift card industry forever.
 
Centz’s creation of a universal gift card registry will be blockchain based and represent a chance to reimagine existing businesses, and create new business opportunities. This is where not only the identity of each gift card holder will be registered, but also where every gift card, reward and loyalty credit will be placed, onto the Centz mobile wallet.
 
However, the recent explosion in the use of gift cards has created a situation where millions of people have multiple unused gift cards with fractional balances that now sit abandoned and unused in homes all around the world.
 
According to a Blackhawk Network survey, 53% of shoppers receive cards and forget about them and 26% of shoppers receive cards for a retailer, restaurant or other merchant that they don’t frequent. 97% of those with unused gift cards had up to 10 unused gift card.
 
The surge in gift card purchases has proved hugely profitable for the retailers that issue them and the Credit CARD Act did not do much to address what happens when the less than the face value of a gift card is used and then the fractional balance sit in the junk drawer in perpetuity.
 
Jon Bricken, CEO of CENTZ, says, “What is interesting is that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allows companies to take unused gift-card money as income (breakage) once they can reasonably say the card won’t be redeemed, but there’s no set time limit. Many consumers do not use gift cards that they are given, resulting in unexercised customer rights, commonly known as breakage. We are giving the money back to the intended recipient.”
 
Bricken continued, “Retailers have recognized that it is increasingly to their benefit to sell more and more gift cards as up to 20% will never be redeemed and subsequently those unused funds can flow directly to the bottom line without having to deliver any goods or services.”
 
Ronny Boesing, CEO of OpenLedger agrees that Centz has found an ingenious solution to a genius system, stating, “Centz understands this as an opportunity to unlock or decouple these funds and turn them into universal forms of currency transfer and or payment worldwide. We believe this business model will give Centz the ability to unlock a large portion of this huge, multi billion-dollar market.”
 
The ITO for Centz will be announced shortly. Stay tuned.
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It just makes CENTZ!



Centz has designed a completely new business model by integrating unique patent pending features into our platform that solves the industry problems from end-to-end. This provides a positive and fun experience that focuses solely on our consumers. Centz’s business model bridges the gaps between consumer desire and the reality of gift card usage and redefines the gift card marketplace, making the gift card experience revolutionary, seamless, safe and easy.

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Centz Crowdsale Date has been changed to March 31st

As OpenLedger has managed to get a good amount of extra partners involved and to allow them all to benefit of the time to introduce US based Centz to their network, it has been decided to move the start date of the Centz token crowdsale to March 31st 2017. The partners will be announced step by step in coming weeks.

OpenLedger Investments ApS will be the inital beneficiary of all funds collected in this crowdsale and will make sure in co-operation with the designated escrow partners that funds released for Centz is happening according to set milestones.

OpenLedger Investments ApS as offical and lead investor into Centz will have equity in the company Centz and all investors having joined the Centz crowdsale will have an equivalent access to all as well as the revenues on the base of dividend so called token drop via the token CNTZ issued and distributed on OpenLedger and its BItShares network.  

OpenLedger Aps and its decentralized ecosystems will receive payment for the handling and operation of the ITO (Initial Token Offering) of which the asset holders ICOO will benefit receiving an approximate 3% of total amount crowdfunded as part of the revenue distribution. This future revenue will hopefully be the second significant indicator of the value of the future ICOO.

Since another estimated 1,5% will be used on OBITS and BTSR, Centz will be the second proof of value based on the incorporated crossmarketing features involving the entire OpenLedger DC.

Finally all Centz investors including OpenLedger Investments will receive an option to buy into OpenLedger revenues via the official token of the OpenLedger DC called OBITS in the form of a warrant. This warrant as well as the token CNTZ is to be distributed and possibly traded from second week of crowdsale.

I hope you will all enjoy and take part in these projects as part of building proof of work almost, of a Crowdfunding platform expected to launch finally last quarter of 2017, however, using the tools, solutions, network and partners to roll out one proof after the other in coming months allowing me to think we are about to present something special and unique not offered by anyone, anywhere in the world.

End goal here is to allow a Crowdfunding solution involving consumers, investors, developers and startups to enjoy great results on the base of digital leadership through a decentralized conglomerate of ecosystems.


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9.  Original investors start selling SCAM.UIA because there was no initial pop and barely any buy orders on the books.
10.  All of a sudden the trading book for SCAM.UIA is loaded with sells with hardly any buy orders.
11.  This leads to steady sell pressure on SCAM.UIA.  Many of these investors who are selling SCAM.UIA have no interest of being in the BTS ecosystem, holding BTS, or using the DEX.
12.  What are these uninterested investors who just received BTS for their SCAM.UIA going to do??? That's right! SELL THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED BTS!
13.  What do they sell it for??? bitcoin, ethereum, or fiat.
14.  What does selling BTS for fiat do to the price of BTS?? Causes it to decline.
@lil_jay890 Thanks for the write up, having read it I think you have a point. I was critical because it seemed as if the ability in Bitshares to issue ICO tokens would always be negative for the BTS price. There is another side to it too though: If the UIA would be undervalued after the IPO, all after-IPO investors would need to buy BTS in order to buy the UIA which would be good for the BTS price.

Also there is the effect of a generally bearish or bullish BTS market. A bearish BTS market would make those that sold their ICO token for BTS, sell their BTS for Bitcoin like you said. If it's bullish though, holding BTS would be encouraged.

Overall I we can conclude:
(-) Creating downward pressure on BTS price: Overpriced ICO, General bearish BTS market.
(+) Creating upward pressure on BTS price: Underpriced ICO, General bullish BTS market.
(+ -) If there is one negative and one positive factor they cancel each other out.

If we could encourage trading in BTC or Open.BTC and leave BTS for fees, platform operations (issue account/ assets etc) and smart coin trading and issuance / collateral do you think the net result would be positive for the price of BTS.
I think that wouldn't help too much - as long as BTS (as opposed to open.btc) has the highest liquidity on external exchanges vs BTC -  since the ICO investor who wants to get back to BTC or fiat will sell BTS on external exchanges.

What would help is if ICOs would not have these ridiculous valuations which bring them close to being a scam. The only solution I see is to have ICOs that don't set valuations of their token market cap, but have a price discovery, there are two options I know of:
1) Either dividing all ICO tokens among all investors
2) Or the AGS model where 1/200th of the tokens sold are distributed among all investors who sent money on day 1 of 200 days. The same on day 2 and 3 etc...

So, there may actually be a conflict of interests since Openledger wants to maximize the token market cap/valuation of their customer's (Centz) ICO while it would be good for the BTS price to have the opposite.

So here's the rub... Have you ever seen an ICO undervalue itself?  I haven't.  Like you say most valuations are completely insane.

I agree that if BTS was in a bull market and UIA's were being issued undervalued, we would see general price appreciation in BTS.   Problem is 99% of ICO's are overvalued.  Until something is done to limit the UIA's creator ability to suck liquidity and value out of the system, the bearish circle will stay in place.  Hence every BTS price rise being sold.

agree, we have the best evidence in our portfolios, CENTZ is overpriced even so I think its a interesting concept I would wait after the ICO has settled

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I agree most of the ICOs are way overpriced but nobody is forcing anyone to buy in and everyone should do their own due dilligence.

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due diligence about something like this, lets see: e.g. CENTZ what can I find out about CENTZ, nothing they only have a plan, if you participate in e.g. FaceBook IPO you knew they had 1 billion user already, before going public
what is CENTZ , a paper company, its the same what happened with the .COM IPOs in years up to 2000 they had no revenue they only had a "I wish.com" name and willing investors with an imagination.
Hype was all over Wallsteet
from 100% IPOs, about 99% did not even made it past one year.


that said due diligence  is almost impossible because most offerings have nothing to compared to begin with..so whats left is imagination.

IMHO its up to the Issuer to make right decisions and investors have to rely on them, they can be wrong as they also dont have a crystal ball, but they at least are in close contact to the developer..so I hope OBITS makes the right assessments, more often than not
Its all about integrity, without it, you go down sooner or later..to much competition to take your place..

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If we could encourage trading in BTC or Open.BTC and leave BTS for fees, platform operations (issue account/ assets etc) and smart coin trading and issuance / collateral do you think the net result would be positive for the price of BTS.

Any ideas how we could accomplish something like this?

One of the great benefits of Bitshares is being able to start a project and allow trading instantly without any troubles of getting listed on a EX etc. Seems if we had less liquidity on the DEX for BTS this would actually be a good thing.

Do you think Projects like Bitgate and Bitkapital could help in this regard by means of their gateway service, converting users fiat into Bitcoin on the platform; providing higher amounts of wealth stored in BTC and increasing the number of new investors.

perhaps to the dislike of some, like "santaclause102" and perhaps others as well, I do have to agree a whole lot with >lil_jay890<, I also raised this issue myself, and as I am a investor in various different Tokens , I realized that each and every one is about 50% or more less than what I  paid for, this is not a complained but a recognition of realization. I for consider myself  an investor, not a trader in UIAs , with this said I was hoping to increase some in value and some not, thats what investors have to face, but with obvious mentioned reason I made the mistake to buy in ICOs , did not do due diligence so it my fault, but if this is being the case in the future , I doubt OBITS will become a  household name, because people not only become aware of this problem in this very forum, but the media will eventually catch up and as we know, can/ will have a devastating effect for the future of ICO's and therefor everything involved in it, I might be wrong, but I did business in my entire  live and the bad always trumps the good news..thats a fact..that said I for myself will not invest any good money in overvalued ICOs , but if I am interested I would wait until the sell of to grab my shares and this strategy looks more obvious to this day until I am proven wrong, I am not very savvy in crypto and understanding a lot about it, but I know trading and biz, and the basics will never change, still I will be in for the long hall and see whats going on, but the facts lil_jay890 mentioned are undeniable, one like it or not, numbers dont lie ( BTW: SANTA what you think when EURO shares are sold and USD shares bought instead , what would happen to the EURO, right the EURO would go down ..you agree with this??) that might be a reason why BTS is not rising like the sun, or BTC   just my two centz

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Our new article about Centz and Gift Card Market


Centz — Use all your giftcards like never before
One of Centz’s long term goals is to forge Gold Bucks into a stand-alone cryptocurrency that will be traded as an valuable asset itself while being utilized for all kinds of stored value transfers.

To reach that pivot point, Centz is constructing the most efficient gift card registration and trading platform in the world.
Registering all individual identities and gift card balances on the blockchain eliminates the biggest problems and restrictions for the safe and secure use of gift cards. Concurrently, Centz will disrupt the gift card market leveraging the blockchain to generate revenue in ways that have never been done before.
 
Blockchain technology allows Centz to deliver cutting edge security to totally eliminate fraud and money laundering. Similar to credit cards, the % of fraudulent activity is on the rise which ruins the shopping experience for all. Our proprietary blockchain solutions will be adopted by the retail industry once breakage is eliminated. Partnering with Centz is the only way that the industry can “make up” for the lost funds of breakage.
Currently the industry pays 4 ½% to both the issuer and seller of gift cards. Centz will provide both of these functions together more efficiently and at lower cost by issuing totally safe egift cards securely locked on to our blockchain.
 
As the shift to online, storage, sales and delivery of egift cards increases, the Centz wallet will become the only option which combines gift, reward, loyalty and coupon credits in one place, so they are always available for immediate use.
 
Centz’s vision is one where we see the true potential of gift cards by combining the use of the blockchain, which will enable Centz to revolutionize the payment industry in ways that are unimagined today by this sleepy and forgotten industry.

Read the full artcile here: https://medium.com/@openledger/centz-gift-cards-and-the-blockchain-2b96e7af94c3#.bn5db3s0a






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I agree most of the ICOs are way overpriced but nobody is forcing anyone to buy in and everyone should do their own due dilligence.

I think it would be better for the ICO to be done in OPEN.BTC for 2 reasons.
1.) ronny makes more money on OPEN.BTC trades (0.2%)
2.) BTC is a well understood liquid market

But at the end of the day its up to ronny to do whatever he likes.

We can't blame free market traders for BTS price not going up.

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I agree most of the ICOs are way overpriced but nobody is forcing anyone to buy in and everyone should do their own due dilligence.

I think it would be better for the ICO to be done in OPEN.BTC for 2 reasons.
1.) ronny makes more money on OPEN.BTC trades (0.2%)
2.) BTC is a well understood liquid market

But at the end of the day its up to ronny to do whatever he likes.

We can't blame free market traders for BTS price not going up.

This.

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Lets try this again...

These 14 steps have happened with the majority of the UIA's issued on the BTS platform.  Unless a UIA creator starts making a profit and buys back bts on the open market with his fiat profit, he has in essence taken energy out of the system.  The UIA creators, especially the big ones that raise a ton of money, put an incredible amount of stress on the tiny amount of traders who use the DEX.  If the UIA is going to stay profitable the DEX traders need to provide buy support.  Problem is there is not enough traders with excess capital to provide this support.     

Thank you for bringing this issue out of fog.
The problem with UIAa-s is that there is no actual collateral.
The initial investments, which is value given, totaly buypasses Bishares platform.
They dont bring value to the system, they only take the value out of system. This insight was vague for me.
In return investors only get tricky tokens created out of thin air. But investors assumption is that the tokens are somehow collaterized on Bitshares platform, which are clearly not.
Since everyone, with good story, could give in return out of thin air, the confidence in whole Bitshares system depens on REGULATION of UIAs.
We cant rely on assaption that everyone should do is own due diligance. It is big mistake, whole system is built on trust, not on due diligance. It MUST be done more then that.

One of simple solutions could be to remove BTS token out of equity. Introduce "new kind" of UIA that are backed by actual BTS collateral. Those only should be traded for BTS, all others should only be traded by other collateralize coins. Everyone who wants to take value out of system should bring the value first.

This "small change" would mean huge difference.

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9.  Original investors start selling SCAM.UIA because there was no initial pop and barely any buy orders on the books.
10.  All of a sudden the trading book for SCAM.UIA is loaded with sells with hardly any buy orders.
11.  This leads to steady sell pressure on SCAM.UIA.  Many of these investors who are selling SCAM.UIA have no interest of being in the BTS ecosystem, holding BTS, or using the DEX.
12.  What are these uninterested investors who just received BTS for their SCAM.UIA going to do??? That's right! SELL THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED BTS!
13.  What do they sell it for??? bitcoin, ethereum, or fiat.
14.  What does selling BTS for fiat do to the price of BTS?? Causes it to decline.
@lil_jay890 Thanks for the write up, having read it I think you have a point. I was critical because it seemed as if the ability in Bitshares to issue ICO tokens would always be negative for the BTS price. There is another side to it too though: If the UIA would be undervalued after the IPO, all after-IPO investors would need to buy BTS in order to buy the UIA which would be good for the BTS price.

Also there is the effect of a generally bearish or bullish BTS market. A bearish BTS market would make those that sold their ICO token for BTS, sell their BTS for Bitcoin like you said. If it's bullish though, holding BTS would be encouraged.

Overall I we can conclude:
(-) Creating downward pressure on BTS price: Overpriced ICO, General bearish BTS market.
(+) Creating upward pressure on BTS price: Underpriced ICO, General bullish BTS market.
(+ -) If there is one negative and one positive factor they cancel each other out.

If we could encourage trading in BTC or Open.BTC and leave BTS for fees, platform operations (issue account/ assets etc) and smart coin trading and issuance / collateral do you think the net result would be positive for the price of BTS.
I think that wouldn't help too much - as long as BTS (as opposed to open.btc) has the highest liquidity on external exchanges vs BTC -  since the ICO investor who wants to get back to BTC or fiat will sell BTS on external exchanges.

What would help is if ICOs would not have these ridiculous valuations which bring them close to being a scam. The only solution I see is to have ICOs that don't set valuations of their token market cap, but have a price discovery, there are two options I know of:
1) Either dividing all ICO tokens among all investors
2) Or the AGS model where 1/200th of the tokens sold are distributed among all investors who sent money on day 1 of 200 days. The same on day 2 and 3 etc...

So, there may actually be a conflict of interests since Openledger wants to maximize the token market cap/valuation of their customer's (Centz) ICO while it would be good for the BTS price to have the opposite.

So here's the rub... Have you ever seen an ICO undervalue itself?  I haven't.  Like you say most valuations are completely insane.

I agree that if BTS was in a bull market and UIA's were being issued undervalued, we would see general price appreciation in BTS.   Problem is 99% of ICO's are overvalued.  Until something is done to limit the UIA's creator ability to suck liquidity and value out of the system, the bearish circle will stay in place.  Hence every BTS price rise being sold.

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I agree most of the ICOs are way overpriced but nobody is forcing anyone to buy in and everyone should do their own due dilligence.

I think it would be better for the ICO to be done in OPEN.BTC for 2 reasons.
1.) ronny makes more money on OPEN.BTC trades (0.2%)
2.) BTC is a well understood liquid market

But at the end of the day its up to ronny to do whatever he likes.

We can't blame free market traders for BTS price not going up.
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9.  Original investors start selling SCAM.UIA because there was no initial pop and barely any buy orders on the books.
10.  All of a sudden the trading book for SCAM.UIA is loaded with sells with hardly any buy orders.
11.  This leads to steady sell pressure on SCAM.UIA.  Many of these investors who are selling SCAM.UIA have no interest of being in the BTS ecosystem, holding BTS, or using the DEX.
12.  What are these uninterested investors who just received BTS for their SCAM.UIA going to do??? That's right! SELL THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED BTS!
13.  What do they sell it for??? bitcoin, ethereum, or fiat.
14.  What does selling BTS for fiat do to the price of BTS?? Causes it to decline.
@lil_jay890 Thanks for the write up, having read it I think you have a point. I was critical because it seemed as if the ability in Bitshares to issue ICO tokens would always be negative for the BTS price. There is another side to it too though: If the UIA would be undervalued after the IPO, all after-IPO investors would need to buy BTS in order to buy the UIA which would be good for the BTS price.

Also there is the effect of a generally bearish or bullish BTS market. A bearish BTS market would make those that sold their ICO token for BTS, sell their BTS for Bitcoin like you said. If it's bullish though, holding BTS would be encouraged.

Overall I we can conclude:
(-) Creating downward pressure on BTS price: Overpriced ICO, General bearish BTS market.
(+) Creating upward pressure on BTS price: Underpriced ICO, General bullish BTS market.
(+ -) If there is one negative and one positive factor they cancel each other out.

If we could encourage trading in BTC or Open.BTC and leave BTS for fees, platform operations (issue account/ assets etc) and smart coin trading and issuance / collateral do you think the net result would be positive for the price of BTS.
I think that wouldn't help too much - as long as BTS (as opposed to open.btc) has the highest liquidity on external exchanges vs BTC -  since the ICO investor who wants to get back to BTC or fiat will sell BTS on external exchanges.

What would help is if ICOs would not have these ridiculous valuations which bring them close to being a scam. The only solution I see is to have ICOs that don't set valuations of their token market cap, but have a price discovery, there are two options I know of:
1) Either dividing all ICO tokens among all investors
2) Or the AGS model where 1/200th of the tokens sold are distributed among all investors who sent money on day 1 of 200 days. The same on day 2 and 3 etc...

So, there may actually be a conflict of interests since Openledger wants to maximize the token market cap/valuation of their customer's (Centz) ICO while it would be good for the BTS price to have the opposite.
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If we could encourage trading in BTC or Open.BTC and leave BTS for fees, platform operations (issue account/ assets etc) and smart coin trading and issuance / collateral do you think the net result would be positive for the price of BTS.

Any ideas how we could accomplish something like this?

One of the great benefits of Bitshares is being able to start a project and allow trading instantly without any troubles of getting listed on a EX etc. Seems if we had less liquidity on the DEX for BTS this would actually be a good thing.

Do you think Projects like Bitgate and Bitkapital could help in this regard by means of their gateway service, converting users fiat into Bitcoin on the platform; providing higher amounts of wealth stored in BTC and increasing the number of new investors.
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It is exactly correct what btswolf said.


Very roughly: 1000 usd = 1 BTC = 1000 centz tokens.  And 1 centz token gives you 1 A share of the centz company --> Since there are 100 million A shares in total the centz company would be valued at 100 million USD - pre-product and without any users.

Everyone should judge these numbers by themselves but it is very rare for a seed investment valuation to exceed 10 million, see for example https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/19/what-reset-both-seed-and-late-stage-valuations-just-hit-record-levels-says-new-report/

b) dividends in the form of token drop from revenues of Centz operations
The pdf btswolf quoted states that the dividend is 10% of the revenue of the centz business until the equity is dropped onto centz token holders when the threshold is reached, yet all centz token holders hold 16% of the whole centz business....

It wouldn't be a Crypto ICO if it didn't value itself at some obscene 8-9 figure valuation...

Most of the ICO's done on the bitshares platform have done this as well, leading to the constant downward pressure on nearly every UIA.  Basically anyone who bought into any UIA has lost money in both BTS terms and Dollar terms.  This is a huge reason, among several others, that the BTS token gets sold off hard on every single pump to lower highs.
Why would that effect the BTS token?
btw, it's always hard to call a valley, but I think it's time to take of your BTS depression glasses;)

And put on the rose colored ones that have caused so many here to lose tons of cash?  Maybe when this dog stops getting sold on every pump I'll think about it.  Maybe when almost every single UIA doesn't look like a downward ski slope.

Reason why it pushes the BTS price down.  UIA's are distributed to all these people... many of who just want to sell on the first pump.  Because of this, the pump is small but they still want out.  The try to dump the tokens for bts, then try to dump the BTS of btc.  Because there is a lack of new blood in BTS, and because most of the supporters here have nothing left to invest, there is no buy liquidity.  It can be seen in nearly every order book.
Sorry, but your explanation lacks an independent first reason that is not the same reason BTS would go down without the UIA tokens as well.

Lets try this again...

1. A third party creates a UIA in the BTS Ecosystem.... Lets call it SCAM.UIA
2. Third party promotes SCAM.UIA, saying it the key to decentralized, deregulated, liberty for all, fortunes
3. In order to get in on this wonderful investment, you need to send DOLLLARS or BITCOIN to this third party
4. The third party then sends you a whole bunch of shiny new SCAM.UIA tokens

So lets review what has happened so far.  The scammer has created a token out of thin air and sold it to you for real currency or bitcoin.  You are hoping that he will take that money and create something wonderfully profitable and then distribute the money back to you via buy back or dividends.

Unfortunately....

5.  Once the SCAM.UIA tokens are distributed, all the investors are locked into the BTS ecosystem.
6.  All these investors have lots of initial "paper" wealth. But SCAM.UIA's trading book is extremely thin.
7.  Some of the original SCAM.UIA buyers wanted to sell on the first pop, but the books are too thin
8.  The books are too thin because there is not enough BTS holders, who were not involved in SCAM.UIA's ICO, willing to buy SCAM.UIA on the open market
9.  Original investors start selling SCAM.UIA because there was no initial pop and barely any buy orders on the books.
10.  All of a sudden the trading book for SCAM.UIA is loaded with sells with hardly any buy orders.
11.  This leads to steady sell pressure on SCAM.UIA.  Many of these investors who are selling SCAM.UIA have no interest of being in the BTS ecosystem, holding BTS, or using the DEX.
12.  What are these uninterested investors who just received BTS for their SCAM.UIA going to do??? That's right! SELL THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED BTS!
13.  What do they sell it for??? bitcoin, ethereum, or fiat.
14.  What does selling BTS for fiat do to the price of BTS?? Causes it to decline.

These 14 steps have happened with the majority of the UIA's issued on the BTS platform.  Unless a UIA creator starts making a profit and buys back bts on the open market with his fiat profit, he has in essence taken energy out of the system.  The UIA creators, especially the big ones that raise a ton of money, put an incredible amount of stress on the tiny amount of traders who use the DEX.  If the UIA is going to stay profitable the DEX traders need to provide buy support.  Problem is there is not enough traders with excess capital to provide this support.     

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It is exactly correct what btswolf said.


Very roughly: 1000 usd = 1 BTC = 1000 centz tokens.  And 1 centz token gives you 1 A share of the centz company --> Since there are 100 million A shares in total the centz company would be valued at 100 million USD - pre-product and without any users.

Everyone should judge these numbers by themselves but it is very rare for a seed investment valuation to exceed 10 million, see for example https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/19/what-reset-both-seed-and-late-stage-valuations-just-hit-record-levels-says-new-report/

b) dividends in the form of token drop from revenues of Centz operations
The pdf btswolf quoted states that the dividend is 10% of the revenue of the centz business until the equity is dropped onto centz token holders when the threshold is reached, yet all centz token holders hold 16% of the whole centz business....

It wouldn't be a Crypto ICO if it didn't value itself at some obscene 8-9 figure valuation...

Most of the ICO's done on the bitshares platform have done this as well, leading to the constant downward pressure on nearly every UIA.  Basically anyone who bought into any UIA has lost money in both BTS terms and Dollar terms.  This is a huge reason, among several others, that the BTS token gets sold off hard on every single pump to lower highs.
Why would that effect the BTS token?
btw, it's always hard to call a valley, but I think it's time to take of your BTS depression glasses;)

And put on the rose colored ones that have caused so many here to lose tons of cash?  Maybe when this dog stops getting sold on every pump I'll think about it.  Maybe when almost every single UIA doesn't look like a downward ski slope.

Reason why it pushes the BTS price down.  UIA's are distributed to all these people... many of who just want to sell on the first pump.  Because of this, the pump is small but they still want out.  The try to dump the tokens for bts, then try to dump the BTS of btc.  Because there is a lack of new blood in BTS, and because most of the supporters here have nothing left to invest, there is no buy liquidity.  It can be seen in nearly every order book.
Sorry, but your explanation lacks an independent first reason that is not the same reason BTS would go down without the UIA tokens as well.

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It is exactly correct what btswolf said.


Very roughly: 1000 usd = 1 BTC = 1000 centz tokens.  And 1 centz token gives you 1 A share of the centz company --> Since there are 100 million A shares in total the centz company would be valued at 100 million USD - pre-product and without any users.

Everyone should judge these numbers by themselves but it is very rare for a seed investment valuation to exceed 10 million, see for example https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/19/what-reset-both-seed-and-late-stage-valuations-just-hit-record-levels-says-new-report/

b) dividends in the form of token drop from revenues of Centz operations
The pdf btswolf quoted states that the dividend is 10% of the revenue of the centz business until the equity is dropped onto centz token holders when the threshold is reached, yet all centz token holders hold 16% of the whole centz business....

It wouldn't be a Crypto ICO if it didn't value itself at some obscene 8-9 figure valuation...

Most of the ICO's done on the bitshares platform have done this as well, leading to the constant downward pressure on nearly every UIA.  Basically anyone who bought into any UIA has lost money in both BTS terms and Dollar terms.  This is a huge reason, among several others, that the BTS token gets sold off hard on every single pump to lower highs.
Why would that effect the BTS token?
btw, it's always hard to call a valley, but I think it's time to take of your BTS depression glasses;)

And put on the rose colored ones that have caused so many here to lose tons of cash?  Maybe when this dog stops getting sold on every pump I'll think about it.  Maybe when almost every single UIA doesn't look like a downward ski slope.

Reason why it pushes the BTS price down.  UIA's are distributed to all these people... many of who just want to sell on the first pump.  Because of this, the pump is small but they still want out.  The try to dump the tokens for bts, then try to dump the BTS of btc.  Because there is a lack of new blood in BTS, and because most of the supporters here have nothing left to invest, there is no buy liquidity.  It can be seen in nearly every order book.

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It is exactly correct what btswolf said.


Very roughly: 1000 usd = 1 BTC = 1000 centz tokens.  And 1 centz token gives you 1 A share of the centz company --> Since there are 100 million A shares in total the centz company would be valued at 100 million USD - pre-product and without any users.

Everyone should judge these numbers by themselves but it is very rare for a seed investment valuation to exceed 10 million, see for example https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/19/what-reset-both-seed-and-late-stage-valuations-just-hit-record-levels-says-new-report/

b) dividends in the form of token drop from revenues of Centz operations
The pdf btswolf quoted states that the dividend is 10% of the revenue of the centz business until the equity is dropped onto centz token holders when the threshold is reached, yet all centz token holders hold 16% of the whole centz business....

It wouldn't be a Crypto ICO if it didn't value itself at some obscene 8-9 figure valuation...

Most of the ICO's done on the bitshares platform have done this as well, leading to the constant downward pressure on nearly every UIA.  Basically anyone who bought into any UIA has lost money in both BTS terms and Dollar terms.  This is a huge reason, among several others, that the BTS token gets sold off hard on every single pump to lower highs.
Why would that effect the BTS token?
btw, it's always hard to call a valley, but I think it's time to take of your BTS depression glasses;)

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It is exactly correct what btswolf said.


Very roughly: 1000 usd = 1 BTC = 1000 centz tokens.  And 1 centz token gives you 1 A share of the centz company --> Since there are 100 million A shares in total the centz company would be valued at 100 million USD - pre-product and without any users.

Everyone should judge these numbers by themselves but it is very rare for a seed investment valuation to exceed 10 million, see for example https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/19/what-reset-both-seed-and-late-stage-valuations-just-hit-record-levels-says-new-report/

b) dividends in the form of token drop from revenues of Centz operations
The pdf btswolf quoted states that the dividend is 10% of the revenue of the centz business until the equity is dropped onto centz token holders when the threshold is reached, yet all centz token holders hold 16% of the whole centz business....

It wouldn't be a Crypto ICO if it didn't value itself at some obscene 8-9 figure valuation...

Most of the ICO's done on the bitshares platform have done this as well, leading to the constant downward pressure on nearly every UIA.  Basically anyone who bought into any UIA has lost money in both BTS terms and Dollar terms.  This is a huge reason, among several others, that the BTS token gets sold off hard on every single pump to lower highs.

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It is exactly correct what btswolf said.


Very roughly: 1000 usd = 1 BTC = 1000 centz tokens.  And 1 centz token gives you 1 A share of the centz company --> Since there are 100 million A shares in total the centz company would be valued at 100 million USD - pre-product and without any users.

Everyone should judge these numbers by themselves but it is very rare for a seed investment valuation to exceed 10 million, see for example https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/19/what-reset-both-seed-and-late-stage-valuations-just-hit-record-levels-says-new-report/

b) dividends in the form of token drop from revenues of Centz operations
The pdf btswolf quoted states that the dividend is 10% of the revenue of the centz business until the equity is dropped onto centz token holders when the threshold is reached, yet all centz token holders hold 16% of the whole centz business....


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It is exactly correct what btswolf said.
Furthermore 10% of the crowdfunding revenue is used to buy OBITS.WARRANT which will then be distributed to all investors on a first come first served basis, since only 4 million OBITS made available for this action, and both apptrade, centz and getgame investors all three projects have this special added value included.

It means that:

a) apart from equity in Centz,
b) dividends in the form of token drop from revenues of Centz operations
c) exit option at tier 1 rate being able to trade, when tier 2 level has been reached,
d) exit option from 2 CNTZ tokens to 1 GoldBuck to be used to buy giftcards,

you have additionally an option to buy a part of OpenLedger with the buying of OBITS at the price of 0,16 USD anytime in 2017 no matter the price at the time of execution. If you bought 1000 Centz you would receive as well 100 OBITS.WARRANT valid to be used in 2017 only.

I have put an amount of 500 000 OBITS.WARRANT up for sale at 0,10 as well, so that deseription is available on cryptofresh.com (this is for the ones not interested in buy into either of the above mentioned three projects.

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How many class A shares will there be in total? Without that info there is no way to evaluate the offer.

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https://ico.centz.net/assets/files/The%20Offer.pdf

16,000,000 Centz token represent 16% of total outstanding Class A shares
= 100,000,000 total Class A shares
I read that too. But since it wasn't part of the OP I didn't want to make that assumption. So can ronny confirm?

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How many class A shares will there be in total? Without that info there is no way to evaluate the offer.

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https://ico.centz.net/assets/files/The%20Offer.pdf

16,000,000 Centz token represent 16% of total outstanding Class A shares
= 100,000,000 total Class A shares

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How many class A shares will there be in total? Without that info there is no way to evaluate the offer.

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START Mar 31, 2017 at 08.00UTC; END May 30, 2017 20.UTC

Welcome to the Centz crowdsale powered by OpenLedger and its suite of crowdfunding solutions.

OpenLedger & Ronny Boesing presents Centz, a first of its kind crowdfunding offer that we are bringing to you through our platform CCEDK. We are revolutionizing the investment world through the crowdfunding method of the future. Centz is the first of many offerings that we have identified as being revolutionary and disruptive.

OpenLedger is helping not only the startup to reach its goals, but at the same time making sure all sponsors and investors are given the real-time updates allowing an ever growing belief in the project. This happens throughout the life of the project. OpenLedger is the lead investor, making sure that protocol and payments are done in strict according with published milestones.

WHAT IS OpenLedger
OpenLedger started out as a decentralized exchange. It has now become a  decentralized conglomerate and has developed many businesses supported by recently revamped cryptocurrency exchange CCEDK. OpenLedger is a startup crowdfunding service provider, information exchange and ISO access point open to the public so anyone can participate in “deals of the future”. For the first time crypto investors of the world have the ability to get in front of the all the “professional”, “smart” money and reap the rewards that are usually reserved for a privileged few.

TRILLION DOLLAR GIFT CARD INDUSTRY ON THE BLOCKCHAIN

CENTZ - What we do



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CENTZ - PREVENTING GIFT CARD FRAUD



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Centz - Use all your giftcards like never before



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LINKS
WHITEPAPER
ISO WEBSITE
MORE INFO DETAILS
PATENT FILING RECEIPTS

CENTZ AND THE BLOCKCHAIN
Centz will put every registered gift card identity and gift card balance on the universal gift card registery, which will be on the blockchain, providing total security and safety.

  • First universal gift card register placed on the blockchain
  • First time gift card identities are on the blockchain
  • First time gift card fraud is eliminated

WHAT CENTZ DOES
Centz is a revolutionary fintech company that is going to first disrupt the worldwide $1 trillion USD dollar gift card market, and then change it in ways that have never been imagined.

WHY SHOULD INVESTOR CONSIDER CENTZ COINS AS AN INVESTMENT
Centz coins represent an opportunity for any individual to participate in a ground floor opportunity of a next generation of financial technology company.

  • Participating in the Centz ISO allows you to invest in early rounds of funding, which up until now, has been the exclusive territory of the super rich
  • Participating in the Centz ISO provides you with the largest outsized risk-adjusted returns compared to any investment
  • Participating in the Centz ISO gives you access to institutional-quality equity offering online and in real time, truly the wave of the future
  • Participating in the Centz ISO eliminates the historical minimum investment requirements for private equity deals
  • Participating in the Centz ISO lets you become a venture capitalist

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Centz has filed two patents that are groundbreaking and revolutionary that protect our business model and creates unique blockchain encryption security to prevent gift card fraud and money laundering. Centz is poised to file three additional patents that will secure additional IP that surrounds and extends our core technology.

ISO TIER PRICING AND BONUS SCHEDULE
TO BE ANNOUNCED


CENTZ TARGETS LARGEST EMERGING DEMOGRAPHIC MARKET
By 2020, millennials will represent over 75 percent of total income growth globally. In addition, millennials will be approximately 30 percent of the population in the US, Europe, and China. And they will have 40 percent of income, making them a critical segment to capture for retail brands.

  • Centz solutions capture the largest segment of this dynamic market with our mobile wallet
  • Centz delivers relentless customer service second to none
  • Centz utilized both implicit and explicit data to tailor the entire web and mobile user experience
  • Centz is building a energized customer base that will engage in recurring transactions
  • Centz provides outsourced fraud management so retailers can focus on growing their business

WHAT IS A CENTZ COIN & WHAT ARE IT’S SPECIAL RIGHTS
Centz coins are an asset backed by the class A common shares of CENTZ common stock and will have a yearly dividend payment.

DISBURSEMENT OF PARTICIPATING REVENUE
All revenue payments will be made by OpenLedger thru their platform CCEDK and will be to registered owners of CENTZ tokens on the anniversary date of the closing of the ISO.

MINIMUM THRESHOLD: $2 MILLION USD
Should the crowdfunding campaign fail to reach its minimum capital goal of $2 million USD, then all funds will be returned.

DISPERSEMENT OF FUNDS - ESCROW
All funds will be dispersed according to the milestone timeline and be administered by OpenLedger using a multi signature wallet administered by three people. Ronny Boesing, CEO OpenLedger, Ronald Kramer, Chairman Bitshares Foundation and one more minimum coming up to be disclosed prior to start of crowdsale

ISO FUNDS REFUND
If the minimum amount of $2 million USD is not raised, then all funds will be returned.

FOUNDERS LIQUIDITY
The founders of CENTZ will hold no tokens and thus have no ability to profit from the ISO in any way. The founders are committed to building the next mega sized business, such as Facebook, Uber & Airbnb.

CENTZ IN THE MEDIA:

How to invest in the ‘Centz Gold Bucks’ Token Crowd Sale

Blockchain Startup Centz Goes After Billions in Breakage

Making Centz of this Crypto Crowdsale @GetCentz

This start up is about to revolutionize how billions in retail dollars are spent

Disruptive 'Crypto' Startup Centz Eyes $160Bn Gift Cards Market

Centz Vows to Give You Control of Your Gift Card Money Via OpenLedger ICO at Money 2020

Centz Gift Card Service to Host ICO on OpenLedger


GIFT CARDS IN THE NEWS:

The Idiot's Guide To Laundering $9 Million

Gift Card Fraud: Part of a Growing Trillion-Dollar Global Epidemic

Blockchain 'Crypto' Crowdfunding Phenomenon Primed For Industry Disruption & Beyond

Giant Food Sees Giant Card Fraud Spike

Gift card exchange site draws scrutiny as bad cards trip up consumers


BOUNTIES
A % of the ISO is reserved for or early-stage marketing and bounty campaigns which will be distributed to everyone who contributes to the CENTZ ISO before and during the ISO . We offer bounties for:
translations and forum moderation,
Bitcointalk signatures: information coming soon


SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
Centz Facebook
Centz Twitter


CENTZ  TIMELINE
https://ico.centz.net/assets/files/Centz%20Timeline.pdf


CENTZ COIN TOKEN ADDITIONAL CONVERSION RIGHTS
An additional conversion right of the Centz coin is the ability to convert into Centz Gold Bucks, which can be used to buy gift cards listed on the Centz platform. The conversion of Centz coin into Centz Gold Bucks will be at a ratio of 2 (two) Centz coin for 1 (one) Centz Gold Buck.

TRADABILITY OF THE CENTZ COIN
All Centz coins will be tradeable the first day after the ISO concludes. The 16 million Centz coins will convert into 16,000,000 shares of Centz Class A common stock.

CORE TEAM & ADVISORS
Jon Bricken, CEO
Swen Swenson, President
Ronny Boesing, OpenLedger ICO Team
Annemieke Dirkes, OpenLedger ICO Team


DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Greg Belken, CTO
Mark R. Smelcer, CPO


TRANSLATIONS
Coming soon


Before the start of Centz's crowdsale get more info about  "Early Bird" offer here:
Centz "Early Bird" special offer
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