The Bitcoin Cash Fund website is now live! Go check it out!
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 (
-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 r/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.