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White Paper Draft 0.1
Our mission is to become the go-to platform for all existing cryptocurrency users and the main gateway for the new adopters. We believe that cryptocurrencies will eventually become mainstream currencies, and Coinyspace will be at the centre of the action!
Fiat money system .................................................................................... 10
Crypto System .......................................................................................... 14
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Coinyspace Platform
Enhancing the Technology vs. Expanding Community
There is no doubt that blockchain is the technology that can transform the world. It can be
as revolutionary as farming technologies which made gathering and hunting redundant and led
us to the dawn of the human civilization. Blockchain can lead us to its heyday. First time in
history, we have a real chance to forget about drudgery and survival and move to the world of
prosperity and economic freedom.
However, despite having the powerful technology behind it, the success of
cryptocurrencies has been limited by their lack of adoption and acceptance.
Coinyspace is the first platform that is focusing on the community building, as we believe
this is the foundation that will elevate the universal acceptance of bitcoin and other digital
currencies.
Coinyspace’s mission is enhancing acceptance, adoption, and use of digital currencies. The
platform is designed to be a place where ideas can be shared, developers, merchants, and
individuals can collaborate with one another, and lasting and productive connections can be
forged.
Our ultimate aim is to make cryptocurrencies universally accepted across the world.
Platform’s features and benefits
We launched the prototype of our platform in 2016 (named moBUinet) and have been
collecting user feedback to improve various aspects of the platform’s framework since then. We
are going to use funds raised through the token sale to implement the user suggestions by
removing redundant features while enhancing and expanding the requested functionality.
The platform offers a unique functionality that is specifically designed to facilitate further
adoption and usage of cryptocurrencies. In particular, Coinyspace users will be able to:
Utilize Basic Networking Functionality within the Cryptocurrency Community:
Create individual profiles,
Create pages for their projects, businesses and other organizations,
Publish updates and articles and send direct messages,
Connect to each other, manage subscriptions and newsfeeds.
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Use Specific Cryptocurrency Features, for example:
Indicate in the user profiles/pages which cryptocurrencies a person/business
uses/accepts,
Showcase goods and services merchants sell for accepted cryptocurrencies, announce
offers and discounts.
Search across different types of contents and pages for a relevant cryptocurrency (e.g.
all x-coin users in a location Y, or restaurants accepting x-coin in a location Z);
Publish community requests to find developers, merchants and other partners (for
instance a request to find a freelancer who will do a specific work in exchange for
cryptocurrencies or tokens). Partner requests are published like regular posts and can
be seen and shared by the community;
Initiate product or service requests, i.e. express willingness to buy goods or services
using a specific cryptocurrency;
Create and promote ICO campaigns, including running airdrop and bounty campaigns,
building and managing the community and expanding the ICO outreach;
etc.
Benefits of Coinyspace for different types of users are summarized in the following table:
Users
Benefits of Coinyspace
Founders and developers of cryptocurrency projects
Will be able to showcase their projects, by creating an authentic Coinyspace profile that highlights project’s strength, describes its competitive advantage, and builds trust in the team and their company;
Can launch and manage ICO campaigns, airdrops, bounties, publish updates and engage with the community using user-friendly functionality of the Platform;
Will be able to build and engage their online network—to attract more:
developers and contributors, airdrop and bounty campaign
participants, token purchasers, adopters and users, partners and service providers, miners, merchants, - and so on.
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Users
Benefits of Coinyspace
Merchants who already accept cryptocurrencies or are willing to start
accepting them
Can increase their turnover and reach by showcasing and promoting their goods/services to the cryptocurrency consumer base on Coinyspace
Can streamline their supply chain and reduce costs by finding more suppliers, contractors, freelancers and employees accepting cryptocurrencies,
Can expand their operations by utilizing the networking functionality, which will enable them to expand their operations by strategically connecting and partnering with other businesses
Cryptocurrency users
Can financially benefit by becoming early adopters, miners or investors of new promising crypto projects,
Can earn cryptocurrencies by showcasing or promoting their freelance practices, businesses, ideas or campaigns,
Will be able to find ways to spend digital currencies to buy goods and services they need,
New users will be able to learn quickly how digital currencies work and seamlessly immerse into the crypto world.
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Tokens
Overview
Coinyspace Token (“CNC”) is a voucher, that can be exchanged for advertising or other services
rendered by the Coinyspace Platform.
Token holders can use CNC to bid on keywords or ad rank and get higher positions for more
competitive bids.
CNC is a utility token; it does not entitle its holder to any financial return, voting rights,
discounts or any other privilege. The sole use case of CNC is being exchanged for the Platform’s
services. Used tokens will be destroyed.
Token Economics
Coinyspace is to issue 1bn tokens, which will be allocated in the following way:
If the total number of coins sold during the Token Sale is less than 0.6bn, unsold tokens will be
burned and the number of tokens reserved for User Acquisition and Marketing as well as for
the Team and Advisors will be proportionately reduced. Tokens reserved for the Team and
Advisors will be locked for at least 1 year.
Token Sale Parameters: Soft Cap: 50m tokens, Hard Cap: 600m tokens, Token Price: 0.000035 ETH per a token
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Use of Funds
Funds raised during the Token Sale will be used as following
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User Acquisition and Marketing
As noted above, 30% of Tokens and a considerable part of the project’s budget is allocated for
User Acquisition and Marketing.
Our marketing plan includes the following activities:
Initial Airdrop Campaign: 25m Tokens will be airdropped to attract the first token
holders and users of the Coinyspace Platform. This will help to increase awareness
about the project and gain initial market traction. All the user profiles created during the
airdrop will be activated into the earliest alpha release of the platform, creating the
initial set of users;
Initial Bounty Program: 25m Tokens will be used to provide compensation for a number
of tasks spread across marketing, content creation, bug reporting, and improving
aspects of the platform’s framework;
Sign Up Bonus Campaign: Once the functional platform is launched, we will incentivize
new sign-ups by offering new users a certain amount of tokens from the pool reserved
for user acquisition and marketing. Unlike Initial Airdrop, Sign Up Bonus Campaign will
require performing specific tasks on the Platform;
Referral Program: Early users of the Platform may receive an opportunity to earn
referral fees by inviting new users to Coinyspace;
Ongoing Bounty Program: A portion of tokens allocated for User Acquisition and
Marketing will be used to offer compensation for some marketing tasks on an ongoing
basis;
Social Media Campaign: A dedicated social media manager will be hired to create quality
content and engage with followers across all the popular social networks and
Coinyspace itself;
Cryptocurrency Partner Program: We will target high-quality crypto projects to present
all the benefits of Coinyspace to their founders and make them use the Platform as their
main community management tool;
Merchant Attraction Program: We will hire an account manager responsible for bringing
businesses, which adopt cryptocurrencies to Coinyspace. At an earlier stage, we will
create well-designed pages for the merchants, to show them benefits of Coinyspace and
facilitate their on-boarding on the Platform.
Merchant Crypto Awareness Program: We will target new businesses which do not
accept cryptocurrencies yet. We are aiming to partner with crypto merchant service
providers and offer turnkey solutions which will enhance cryptocurrency adoption
across the board.
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Content Production Program: We are going to produce “in-house” engaging pages and
articles, covering different facets of the crypto ecosystem. These pages/content will be
used to generate traffic and increase awareness about cryptocurrencies as well as
showcase the powerful functionality of Coinyspace,
Join the Crypto Revolution Campaign: We will develop a comprehensive onboarding
guide for people who are just joining the crypto world and will use different marketing
and advertising channels to attract these people to Coinyspace.
Platform’s Growth & Scalability
Our mission is to become the go-to platform for all existing cryptocurrency users and the main
gateway for the new adopters. We believe that cryptocurrencies will eventually become
mainstream currencies, and Coinyspace will be at the centre of the action!
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Appendix 1 - Our Vision
We believe that community is not just an add-on to a cryptocurrency, but rather it is an inherent part
of what makes the cryptocurrency money at first place.
This paper outlines why community building is the most important part of the crypto ecosystem.
Any modern currency is based upon three pillars:
1) Ledger,
2) Transaction system,
3) Community support.
These three pillars underpin the money system where ledgers are used to record transactions
initiated by the community and to display a confirmed output of these transactions at a given
point of time.
Up to this point, the crypto ecosystem has mainly focused on the ways in which the ledgers are
designed and transactions are processed. Our project aims to focus on the community building
and cryptocurrency adoption to prop up the revolutionary technology behind the crypto
ledgers and transactions.
In order to understand that the community of adopters is an inherent part of the money
system, we need to consider how the fiat system is designed and how bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies differ.
Fiat money system
Fiat currencies are predominantly maintained by banks’ ledgers, which are digital databases in the banks’ IT systems. These databases are double-entry accounting systems, that record transactions on currency accounts against equal and opposite transactions on different accounts. At any given point in time, the ledger consists of the banks’ liabilities (i.e. records of currency balances held in the bank) and the banks’ assets (i.e. by records of the property, which “back” the currency). This looks like this:
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Bank’s Ledger
Assets Liabilities
Currency notes – 50 Currency Account A - 100
Reserves in Central Bank – 250 Currency Account B - 200
Total – 300 Total – 300
Bank’s “liabilities” is just another term for the fiat currency. When you make any transaction
with your bank account with a check, debit card or a payment order, your bank makes a record
in its IT database decreasing your bank account balance against a corresponding increase on a
different bank account or against a transfer of its assets to a different bank. This looks like the
following:
Bank’s transaction when the recipient has a currency account in the same bank:
Reserves in Central Bank – 250 (-20) = 230 Currency Account B – 200
Total – 280 Total – 280
Digital records as above are predominantly what the modern money system is about. Like
cryptocurrencies, fiat money is just numbers on computers like cryptocurrencies. The
fundamental difference lies in an institutional framework of how these numbers are backed, i.e.
what makes them legitimate and widely accepted as money.
This is where the community support kicks in as an inherent part of the money system. In the
case of fiat currencies, the community is the entire population of a nation (for a national
currency) or a group of nations (for currencies like EURO). Institutions backed by these
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communities legitimize currencies and make them valuable. Let’s consider how it works for the
fiat currencies.
As you can see above, customer accounts in banks are “backed” by the Central Bank issued
currency notes and reserves. Essentially, what banks call an asset is nothing but a liability
recorded in a ledger of another entity - the Central Bank. This is known as the two-tier banking
system, where the Central Bank acts as an ultimate Bank for banks. The Central Bank runs
banks’ accounts in the same way that banks run their customers’ accounts in the banks’ own
ledgers. So let’s see how the Central Bank’s ledger looks like.
Central Bank’s Ledger:
Assets Liabilities
Treasury Notes - 200 Reserves of Bank A - 150
Reserves of Bank B - 10
Currency Notes - 40
Total – 200 Total – 200
Banks’ transactions are recorded in the Central Bank’s ledger similar to how it is processed in
banks’ ledgers.
When Bank A transfers money from its customer to a customer of Bank B, using a settlement
system utilized by the Central Bank, it looks like this:
Assets Liabilities
Treasury Notes - 200 Reserves of Bank A – 150 (-20) = 130
Reserves of Bank B – 10 (+20) = 30
Currency Notes - 40
Total – 200 Total – 200
The Central Bank’s ledger is an accounting system that allows eligible institutions to hold
reserves balances at the Bank and settle obligations to each other.
Even currency notes, which have physical form, have to be recorded in the Central Bank’s
ledger as its liabilities. Paper bills are essentially a technology used to run payments with
Central Bank’s money without banks acting as intermediaries.
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The Central Bank’s money (primarily the money held in reserves accounts at the Bank) is usually
perceived as the ultimate secure and liquid asset; however, as you can see above, the Central
Banks’ liabilities have to be backed too. In this case, liabilities are backed by Treasury Notes.
So our next question will naturally be how are these Treasury notes are backed in turn? Let’s
have a look at the Treasury’s ledger:
Treasury’s Ledger:
Assets Liabilities
Due From General Funds - 1000 Treasury Notes – 1000
Total – 1000 Total – 1000
Treasury Notes are backed by a vague asset, called “Due From General Funds.” The US Treasury explains what this stands for in the following way:
General Fund liabilities, primarily federal debt, are obligations of the U.S. Government that have
accumulated since the U.S. Government’s inception. These Department-managed liabilities are
separately reported on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, with a corresponding amount reported
as Due from the General Fund. Due from the General Fund represents a receivable, or future
funds required of the General Fund to repay borrowings from the public and other federal
agencies.
In other words, “Due from The General Fund” is nothing but a word used to describe that the
money system is backed by the people, by the community of people that accept the money. It is
not a financial asset in the normal meaning of that word, because there is no debt or equity
instrument called the “receivable, or future funds required of the General Fund.” It is not
definitely not a commodity either. It is just an accounting representation of the community
support. This is the only source of backing for a currency.
Now, if you aggregate all the components of the money system into a consolidated ledger, eliminating all the interim steps, it looks much simpler:
1) Banks back their customers’ currency accounts with the Central Bank’s money
Assets Liabilities
Reserves in Central Bank Currency Accounts
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2) The Central Bank, in turn, backs its money with Treasury Notes (which means that
the Central Bank’s reserves are just an intermediary and the Currency Accounts are
indeed backed by the Treasury Notes, once the interim step is eliminated).
Assets Liabilities
Treasury Notes Reserves in Central Bank
3) And finally, Treasury Notes are backed by the community of the people.
Assets Liabilities
Due From General Funds Treasury Notes
Once you take all the interim steps out, you can clearly see that the currency accounts
maintained by banks are eventually backed by us, the people. Our acceptance of the system
turns the numbers on the computers into money.
Assets Liabilities
Due From General Funds Currency Accounts
Banks, the Central Bank or governments are just intermediaries that exist to run the
system. Blockchain is the very technology that was created to make these intermediaries
redundant.
Crypto System
One of the fundamental reasons why we have intermediaries running our money system is
the necessity to rely on the institutions to maintain the ledgers and process transactions. Only
someone reliable and trusted can be responsible for keeping the ledger in the right order to
prevent mismanagement and fraud. However, while trusting these institutions to run the
system, we also give them the privilege to create money in a way which is not always the most
transparent and beneficial for the community. The technological dependence, a necessity to
have a trusted third party, entails a socio-economic dependence.
Satoshi Nakamoto described this issue in the following way:
The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work.
The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is
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full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it
electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve.
We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts.
Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible.
and offered his solution:
I've developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust.
The revolutionary idea offered by Satoshi Nakamoto was to create a ledger capable of
keeping records and processing transactions without a reliance on a trusted third party. The
blockchain is a shared public ledger on which the entire Bitcoin network relies. All confirmed
transactions are included in the blockchain. This way, Bitcoin wallets can calculate their
spendable balance and new transactions can be verified to ensure bitcoins that are being spent
are actually owned by the spender. The integrity and the chronological order of the blockchain
are enforced with cryptography.
As we demonstrated above, the fiat system’s ledger without intermediaries would look like
this:
Assets Liabilities
Due From General Funds Currency Accounts
Where “Due from General Funds” means nothing but a community support for a given currency.
Bitcoin ledger does not involve double entry accounting because it does not require recording claims between different intermediaries like banks. The community support is simply implied – if people use bitcoin, it means they accept its legitimacy.
Bank of England honestly and clearly described this phenomenon in their research paper:
Digital currencies have meaning only to the extent that participants agree that they have
meaning. That agreement takes the form of a public ledger and a process for how changes to it
are made, including the creation of new currency. Not being an IOU or liability of the central
bank (or the state) does not prevent digital currencies from being used as money…
In theory, digital currencies could serve as money for anybody with an internet-enabled
computer or device. At present, however, digital currencies fulfil the roles of money only to some
extent and only for a small number of people. They are likely at present to regularly serve all
three purposes [i.e. story of value, medium of exchange and unit of account] for perhaps only a
few thousand people worldwide, and even then only in parallel with users’ traditional
currencies.
In summary, the only way to make Bitcoin (or other cryptocurrencies) serve as real money is to make the community of adopters as big as possible and have merchants accepting crypto in all corners of the world.