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THE BITCOIN CASH FUND

Firstly, we need to say a big thank you to you all for getting us this far. There is so much energy in the community right now. You guys are seriously awesome! You are by far the biggest asset to Bitcoin Cash, and this is what we need to leverage to take it mainstream.

You can find the website at www.thebitcoincash.fund

Go and check it out! Sign up to our subscriber list to get updates on the projects that we are funding. The projects we are funding always need volunteers to help them expand their reach.

We would like to announce our board, advisors and generous sponsors.
BOARD

Paul Wasensteiner (aka Singularity).
I have been a Bitcoiner (now Casher) since mid-2011 when I discovered Bitcoin shortly after the first $30 price bubble. Since then, I have been highly active in the community, although it wasn't until this year that I dove into Bitcoin full time. I started the BTCforks initiative last year with Freetrader, which was a precursor to the Bitcoin Cash initiative. Until recently, I spent my time in the community trying to correct misinformation and educate newcomers. After Bitcoin Cash successfully launched, I decided to make a positive change and instead put my energy into pushing Bitcoin Cash forward. I have a wide range of experience and expertise, and have had two businesses of my own in the past. I am working towards changing the world for the better, and I feel Bitcoin Cash is one way of achieving this. I launched the Bitcoin Cash Fund initiative on 14th, November 2017 to expand Bitcoin Cash adoption.

Ian Descôteaux (aka checksum0/FractalGlitch).
Ian found out about bitcoin on January 3rd, 2010 after reading a piece on it. He spent time CPU and GPU mining, both solo and with Mining Team Reddit and Slush. After a break from Bitcoin, he reinvested in mining when the Bitmain S1 was released, and has kept this endeavor going ever since. It was at this time that fees started to increase and he realised that this may become an issue in the future. Today he owns and operates a private 4 MW mining facility in North America. Bitcoin Cash is the plan he signed up for when he first got into the bitcoin space.

Haipo Yang
Haipo is the CEO and founder of ViaBTC. He graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University of China in 2012, majored in mathematics. After graduation he worked as a developer at Tencent Weibo (China’s Twitter) and then FUTU, a Tencent-invested Hong Kong stock exchange. YANG is one of the earliest adopters and investors of Bitcoin and has in-depth understanding in blockchain technology. YANG began to be involved in Bitcoin in 2013. Between 2014 and 2015, YANG started his career in cryptocurrency industry and led the R&D team at ZeusMiner, the former TOP3 Scrypt miner in the world. In April 2016, YANG committed himself to the development of ViaBTC Bitcoin pool and released the initial version after two months of extensive coding effort.

ADVISORS

Roger Ver
Roger was an early investor in bitcoin related startups. He has been a prominent supporter of bitcoin adoption and saw bitcoin as a means to promote economic freedom. He now promotes Bitcoin Cash, a different cryptocurrency. He identifies as a libertarian, an anarcho-capitalist, peace advocate and advocates for individualism and voluntaryism.

Jack Liu
Jack C. Liu formerly served as Chief Strategy Officer of OKCoin Group, leading the company's international unit, and co-founding its latest products including OKEx and OKLink.

Peter Rizun
Dr. Peter Rizun is a physicist and entrepreneur. Chief Scientist for Bitcoin Unlimited, an organization which provides software that powers the backbone of the Bitcoin network. His research focuses on understanding and overcoming the bottlenecks preventing Bitcoin from scaling to a global peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

Mike Komaransky
Mike has been an investor and advocate of Bitcoin since 2010. Mike was a partner at the trading firm DRW, and was Head of Trading at Cumberland Mining from 2014 until June 2017.

SPONSORS
Bitcoin.com
Bitcoin.com is a premier source for everything Bitcoin related. They can help you buy bitcoins, choose a bitcoin wallet. You can also read the latest news, or engage with the community on their Bitcoin Forum.

ViaBTC
ViaBTC was founded in May 2016 as an innovation-intensive startup dedicated to cryptocurrency. They’ve developed the world’s top Bitcoin mining pool with the most advanced deployment technology. They’ve also released mining pools for competing coins and cloud mining products.

Yours
The mission at Yours is to improve the quality of content on the internet by getting people paid for creating and discovering good content. They're making everyone in the world an entrepreneur on their smartphone. They believe peer-to-peer payments are the missing piece in social media

PROJECTS
There are already a number of projects underway.

A short animated video explaining Bitcoin Cash.
A short live-action video explaining how a user uses BCH and, how a business uses/accepts BCH.
Project to travel around Seatac in the US with POS systems, information packs, and stickers to onboard new businesses.
Create a BCH logo animation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOS-4PxZi2o&lc=z23qwpqa4u2mxncqf04t1aokg0yj24dloirdqqxpeo1kbk0h00410) (Sound design still in progress).
Create payment sound branding to be applied as an industry standard for maximum impact.
Hand out well designed, fun Bitcoin Cash stickers for students to stick on their laptops and lockers etc.
Put up Bitcoin Cash flyers on all message boards at MIT.
Giving out free stickers on Twitter for tweets about Bitcoin Cash.

We need far far more though! Get in contact with us (Contact form on our website) and submit a proposal. Start organising! Put ideas out into the community and find people with the skills you need to execute! We are here to help you do this! Join our slack. Subscribe to bitcoincashmarketing and start developing projects.

There are so many talented people in the Bitcoin Cash community. You are our biggest asset BY FAR! This is why the Bitcoin Cash Fund is going to be so powerful at driving Bitcoin Cash adoption, because every BCH we push into the community, we know we will get 10 BCH of value, because you guys are amazing!

Our mission is to help Bitcoin Cash serve 1 billion users within 5 years, and we know you are going to help us achieve this.

Thank you again to you all.
The Bitcoin Cash Fund.

(Yours.org Post)[https://www.yours.org/content/the-bitcoin-cash-fund-website-is-now-live--go-check-it-out--ec40ae6792fd]

Also a big thank you to:

Cameron McEwan for designing and building the site from scratch with such a tight deadline.
Josh Ellithorpe (zquestz) for getting the site hosted and secured).
George Siosi Samuels for handling some of the social media accounts for us.
Kheri for handling some of the social media accounts for us.

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Why You Shouldn’t Fear the Blockchain Regulators

Kevin Werbach is a Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of “The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust,” from which this article is adapted.
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In 2015, New York became one of the first jurisdictions in the world to adopt a regulatory regime for cryptocurrencies. The Department of Financial Services began requiring virtual currency businesses to obtain a “BitLicense” in order to operate or serve customers in the state.
“We want to promote and support companies that use new, emerging technologies to build better financial companies,” said then-New York Superintendent of Financial Services Ben Lawsky, when announcing the rules. He continued:

“Regulators are not always going to get the balance precisely right…. But we need to begin somewhere.”

Perhaps. Yet Lawsky picked the wrong somewhere. And he moved fast to formalize rules governing what was still, in 2015, a small-scale and fluid cryptocurrency community.
Bitcoin entrepreneurs and technologists argued that the threat of overbroad regulation, and the costs of compliance, would chill startup activity. More than 4,000 comments were filed on the draft rule, most of them critical.
And when the regulations went into effect, a substantial number of Bitcoin-related startups left New York, including the exchanges Kraken, Shapeshift, Bitfinex, and Poloniex. “The ‘Great Bitcoin Exodus’ has totally changed New York’s Bitcoin ecosystem,” declared the New York Business Journal.
Three years after the Great Bitcoin Exodus, the crypto-native exchanges have not rejoined the New York startup scene. But other firms have.
R3, the financial industry distributed ledger consortium with over $100 million in funding, is headquartered in New York. As one might expect, so are a number of finance-focused blockchain startups such as Digital Asset Holdings, Symbiont, and Axoni. Pillars of Wall Street such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange are getting into the action.
And the activity is not limited to financial services. Consensys, a venture development studio building around Ethereum technology, grew from 100 to over 400 employees during 2017 alone in its Brooklyn headquarters, and is working on dozens of innovative projects around the world (though it recently announced significant layoffs). Blockstack, a high-profile startup hoping to build “a new internet for decentralized apps” on blockchain foundations, is located in New York as well. The New York bitcoin and ethereum meetup groups each have over five thousand members.
The BitLicense, for all its flaws, did not kill off cryptocurrency activity in New York. Neither did it create the model for regulatory innovation its creators intended. Subsequent jurisdictions developing cryptocurrency regulatory frameworks explicitly distinguished their policies from the overly restrictive elements of the BitLicense.

for more story...https://www.coindesk.com/why-you-shouldnt-fear-the-blockchain-regulators

Fortress and Pantera invest in new bitcoin fund

From Dan Primack at Fortune:
Bitcoinana: In September we discussed how SecondMarket had launched the first U.S.-based investment vehicle dedicated exclusively to Bitcoin, called The Bitcoin Investment Trust (beating out the Winklevii, who remain stuck in regulatory limbo). Now comes word that Fortress Investment Group is prepping its own Bitcoin fund, which likely will be much larger than the SecondMarket offering.
Details remain scarce, although there are some rumors that some info could be revealed tonight at the Bitcoin New Year’s Eve Bash down on Broad Street (yes, this is an actual thing). But it is worth noting that Fortress earlier this year acquired Koru Ventures, a provider of patent-backed loans to tech companies, in order to launch an IP finance group. Among Koru’s principals (and new Fortress employees) was Steven Waterhouse (ex-CTO of RPX Corp.), whose LinkedIn profile yesterday said that he had just become a partner on an unnamed Bitcoin fund. After I sent Waterhouse an email requesting more info – and also placing a call with Fortress – the Bitcoin mention disappeared from his LinkedIn page (replaced only with “TBD”).
My understanding, however, is that the Fortress effort will be something like a currency ETF (similar to Bitcoin Investment Trust), but that Fortress also may raise a separate vehicle to back Bitcoin-related startups. And there likely is some relationship to a new Bitcoin-related fund raised by Pantera Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund whose clients are known to include several Fortress executives. Pantera founder Dan Moorehead declined to discuss his Bitcoin efforts or relationship to Fortress – including if his effort and the Fortress fund were one in the same – but an SEC filing indicates that he already has raised around $150 million, and Pantera recently participated in a VC round for crypto-currency payment network Ripple Labs. Moreover, calls to Pantera’s main number are now met with a voicemail that only identifies the firm as “Pantera Bitcoin.”
UPDATE: Official link: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/31/fortress-is-forming-a-bitcoin-fund/

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