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Sizhao Yang
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What's the name of your company? bitcoin
What market are you addressing? Central banks and currencies.
What problem are you solving? Central bank manipulation of fiat
Who are your competitors? USD and gold
How are you going to grow? Forums, mailing lists, twitter
How much are you looking for? 0
How big do you think this can be? 6 trillion dollars maybe more
What is your solution to this problem? Solving Byzantine general's problem, a theoretical problem and using difficulty adjustments to solve for inflation
Why now? 2008 crisis
What is your business model? We are a currency, no business model
What is your team and how long have you known each other? I'm an anonymous person and plan to stop working on the project after I release it.
Any traction? Just launched it on a mailing list, responding now
Do you have any domain expertise? I'm self taught.
How are you going to recruit world class talent? Through a 9 page whitepaper
What are key differentiated features of your product? Decentralization of issuance and decentralization of organization
What defensibility do you have? All the code is open source
What's your product roadmap? The community will provide it
How can I help? Repent your fiat ways and convert to the ways of Satoshi.
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