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only one go, most of which don't clear, right? we're talking about tons of transactions that never, actually, clear.
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or we're paying with their regular user wallet and didn't know how to change the transaction fees.
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this is only known by when you look through the website of some of these token sales and.
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token sales, too. we're looking at being able to support.
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there's a whole bunch of onerous questions there around.
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there's a whole bunch of work here that [inaudible 00:00:52] simplifies for the platform.
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delivery. how do they deal with making sure that everyone gives them public keys to be able to send to and all that kind of madness?
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and coupled with that, there's some cases where there's outright projects that just won't work.
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but the representations that a project is making are just not correct.
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or is actually going to be able to succeed in its endeavor.
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which of the projects have the most compelling technology and.
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invention and behind them, which of them are being built by people with extensive knowledge and effort and grit that are actually going to carry them to their success.
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and which are not, right? and which are built by groups that are less strong or whatever.
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and so that's something that we see as a major hold right now, in this space.
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one of the best strategies you can have is to actually invest in a fund that's very focused on the space.
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technology is a great example of one that, if people are excited about the space but don't have themselves the technical capabilities to really diligence something, very strongly.
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the potential investment. and so we think that there's an opening right now for, potentially, being able to source some of that important review material and so on.
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significant role in creating an environment where some of that signal can shine.
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of course, ultimately, with any investment platform like angellist, and so on.
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that's something that i think is really critical in this space right now.
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to the space and this influx of capital is, oftentimes, not very well versed.
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into a whole bunch of projects that, perhaps, are not going to be able to succeed in their goals. so.
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then ryan, your part of, probably, the most well known investment fund of the space.
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our understanding is that there is an incredible amount of institutional capital still on the sidelines pushing into the space over the next little while, so.
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coinlist to try to help whitelist certain projects that they can participate in.
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we're really excited to work closely with the team at coinlist, getting.
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checklist available, items to check off and different things that you should be looking for when you're researching whether or not to deploy capital into a project and.
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and this platform is really the best in class way to start down that road.
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there's a veiled problem, here, that we're not really covering and.
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yeah, so great point to bring up and there's a couple things to dive in there, but.
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the first off is just a general bar of quality.
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right? projects on coinlist we expect will be very high quality, in general.
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largely, these projects are known to be of a very high quality, and provide very high value.
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you can, we feel, with doing diligence, with presenting the diligence to the end user, to the end investor.
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call out, obviously, blatant things who likely won't even make it on the platform.
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but then there are some other things with these technologies that there needs to be invention.
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there needs to be experimentation in the future. and we really hope that, through basic auditing, you can sus out things that just don't. right now, some of the.
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reading through every line and understanding exactly where their money's going to and how it's going to be distributed.
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and so, you can eliminate just this broad swath of outright scams, and then really let the investor focus on the uncertainty.
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from a place which is much, much easier to understand and so.
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it will help make things a lot more clear and protect people who are not nearly as educated.
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i want to add, the ether returns were so phenomenally great that it created a lot of capital in the space that, suddenly, could get invested into other projects.
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but also attracted a ton of new capital.
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something that would not be seen, at all, in the venture capital landscapes.
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a number of projects that are straight up, outright just trying to divert funds from one group and give it to another.
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first and foremost, it's extremely important that all investors who are thinking of deploying capital in this space do very serious technical diligence here.
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also, diligence into the people. who are the people building this?
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do they have some history of scam behavior? that kind of review, alone, can highlight several potential problems. and then, from there.
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the vast majority of startup investments always fail.
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but it's important that, at the very beginning, you're not even just dealing with an outright scammer
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by projects that are, objectively, just not worth the money that's being thrown at them.
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his is an incredible utility service that has been provided by the team at protocol labs.
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and far too humble to mention that the fact that they don't, actually, get.
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move their own project forward by putting this out there, their project already has tremendous interest. and so this is really, again, a utility service for the whole ecosystem.
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so we're not off doing these wild west icos trying to exclude us investors to avoid us regulation. and.
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and again, it's just a fantastic effort by this team.
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investment purely because part of the problem is this onerous culture of regulation in the us that is preventing projects from raising money in the states, but at the same time.
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but are projects being prevented from raising money from us investors? i.
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i think one important thing to mention, there, is we're going through a period of time where everyone is in really great highs.
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because the entire ecosystem is booming, and that's [inaudible 00:07:07] ways.
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but what they're not seeing is that there is a very significant fraction of people that do not have those abilities to tell between projects and.
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in some cases, i highly encourage everyone who is thinking about investing in projects or just be occurring a project or is active in the space in general.
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and the majority of them have no clue at all how cryptocurrency works.
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damned. this is why the regulations are in place.
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it's not clear, at all, that the form of the regulation is correct and.
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may not be able to participate at all because they don't have that level of wealth. so agreed.
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the law, there, doesn't quite match some set of cases.
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those are clear examples of things that did happen where a lot of people lost a lot of money.
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oh, it's generally, i think, the influx of capital for the space has created a lot of excitement.
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but then, also, at the same time, has some potential downsides, too.
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yeah, well, and i think one of the big bottlenecks that we're finding ourselves dealing with, with a lot of.
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is often quoted as saying that the things that we're most excited about are the projects and innovations that haven't even been dreamed up of, yet.
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incentivizing them to come into the space, and then, also, developing young technical talent to grow and contribute to this space.
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a lot of the developers that contributed to the early days of ethereum have done extremely well for themselves and.
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and so there's early examples, and hopefully, that.
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will create enough of an incentive to bring new, young developers into the ecosystem.
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participants were pet ryan, pamela morgan.
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i've been working, exclusively, in bitcoin and blockchain technology since early 2014.
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aside from helping people in my law practice.
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we help organizations and individuals learn how to hold keys securely, and learn how to keep the cryptocurrencies that they've earned or worked for.
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i'm interested in blockchain. it's everything, blockchain, and i've only been doing it just over year, so i'm a newbie.
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changed all my research, and at the moment, my research is on the regulation of cryptocurrencies in new zealand and australia, and that's a project funded by the law foundation.
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promote adoption in business in new zealand and, hopefully, abroad. and aside from that, i work.
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is this new fad of crowd sales, token launches-
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when we take looking at a kind of traditional legal framework.
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let's say ipo the public, and in order to do that, it...
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and of course, the rules and regulations as well as just the rights attaching to that share.
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but it might be. it's not necessarily being issued by an individual.
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really good, hannah. and i really love the fact that you went through everything so clearly in relation to these questions that are going to give us problems.
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who's issuing, who's not. i think one of the problems we've got with icos, just to do some classification.
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the way that we talk about securities is it's done so that the person who's investing, who's parting with their money to receive that product.
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you know what you are participating in.
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we have a company that mines gold.
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and that all goes into the disclosure and you are 100%.
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it's an advertisement that's put out suggesting that people may want to invest in this.
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get around it, and the language of crowdfunding has become really popular.
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but i think what is important is that a crowdfunding suggests the donation of money.
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traditionally, crowdfunding, which has been around since the internet, has been something that we've thought of as a donation to somebody or a cause in need.
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can i just jump in there about terminology? and this is a thing of dealing with different jurisdictions in new zealand.
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and so, it's the language matters.
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