Garrett Camp, Uber cofounder, has returned from a "soul seeking" period in Africa by announcing publicly his intention to start a new Cryptocurrency, the Eco. The test net should be by EOY.
One to watch out for, if only because of the influence/power of those involved. A few key features:
* Will rely upon a "verified network of global universities and reputable organizations" to verify each node;
* Aims to address usability issues seen thus far in crypto (and even fiat) by having a simple UI - their standard is to be as intuitively usable as mPesa in Kenya;
* Large token supply, to keep the value of each token attractively low;
* Aims to be more power-efficient than Bitcoin, by reducing the need for ever-more-complex problem solving by miners;
*Aims to distribute the value generated by the system back to the users, in an equitable fashion.
Eco plans to distribute 50% of the token supply to the first 1 billion unique,
verified human users on the platform (with equitable demographic and geographic
representation) to allocate value created to a large community of users.
You can sign up here to reserve a username and receive said tokens:
https://eco.com/join?locale=en
Reference articles
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/01/uber-c...ocurrency/
https://medium.com/@eco/introducing-eco-a-global-currency-protocol-b99c74f7c0f7
Whitepaper: https://eco.com/eco-design-proposal-v1.pdf
I have signed up and will be keeping this one on the radar.
Disclosure: I have no relationship to these guys whatsoever.
One to watch out for, if only because of the influence/power of those involved. A few key features:
* Will rely upon a "verified network of global universities and reputable organizations" to verify each node;
* Aims to address usability issues seen thus far in crypto (and even fiat) by having a simple UI - their standard is to be as intuitively usable as mPesa in Kenya;
* Large token supply, to keep the value of each token attractively low;
* Aims to be more power-efficient than Bitcoin, by reducing the need for ever-more-complex problem solving by miners;
*Aims to distribute the value generated by the system back to the users, in an equitable fashion.
Eco plans to distribute 50% of the token supply to the first 1 billion unique,
verified human users on the platform (with equitable demographic and geographic
representation) to allocate value created to a large community of users.
You can sign up here to reserve a username and receive said tokens:
https://eco.com/join?locale=en
Reference articles
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/01/uber-c...ocurrency/
https://medium.com/@eco/introducing-eco-a-global-currency-protocol-b99c74f7c0f7
Whitepaper: https://eco.com/eco-design-proposal-v1.pdf
I have signed up and will be keeping this one on the radar.
Disclosure: I have no relationship to these guys whatsoever.