Ladies and gentlemen. Regarding my startup plans and currently stalling finances, I feel compelled to make an announcement that I accept roles in other people's ICO's and blockchain projects for the time being. I may take either advisory roles or developer roles depending on your needs and what I can bring on the table.
I am:
-A Solidity & cryptocurrency app developer
-An energy tech startup owner
-A digital nomad & geek
I supplement my startup projects by studying a new degree in solar energy technology.
I'm looking for:
-Projects where my skill are of good use
-Teammates for my cryptocurrency project(s)
-Possibly, funding or ICO partner(s)
Short introduction and my crypto CV
I've been involved with Bitcoin since late 2012, when I lived in Kenya. My primary interest in Bitcoin then was remittance, international development, nonprofits and sales of art and design.
Between 2013 and 2015 I had a startup company called Mundobitcoin with my teammates, based in Costa Rica. The company developed a network of Bitcoin ATM machines and a retail and remittance service. The project flopped due to regulatory uncertainty in Costa Rica at the time, but we did have a minimum viable product.
From 2015 until date I've worked on a distributed energy company built on the Ethereum blockchain based on private solar powerplant kits.
Given the rapid expansion of blockchain technology space during mid to late 2017, I seek to expand my proposal by opening a blockchain foundry in when such venture becomes possible.
Locations for my startup projects are still open as I'm writing this, but I would like to be present in Nairobi, Kenya for personal and family relations. Within the EU, I like Finland, Estonia and France.
My programming skills
Web:
JavaScript, Python, Java
Desktop:
C, C++
Embedded:
Assembly, Hex, Verilog, SystemC. Anything between an FPGA and an Arduino. I know signal processing too.
And of course, Solidity.
My admin skills
I'm a small-scale private cloud admin specialized in deployments of secure full stacks into the hands of industry through Turvamies.fi. I can do Openstack and Salt pretty well. I've got my hands on KVM a couple times too.
Actually I'm kind of starting to offer formal cloud products pretty soon too, as I get my funding in shape.
My terms and conditions
I always agree to demonstrate my and my team's knowledge required by your project prior to signing a contract.
For corporates and ICO's:
Non-refundable 4 BTC pre-payment for large corporations or a big ICO and if you're a startup 1 BTC will do & flights to and living costs of 50-100€ for hotel per day or 500€ per month in a flat within the city where you require me to be, plus 3 annual flights to Nairobi, Kenya return economy with at least 45 kg luggage, on top of whatever salary you offer.
I'll bring in myself AND a team of professionals with a varied skillset tailored to your specific needs.
I assume the contract is one-year renewable.
For individuals:
Are you skilled or connected? Let's work together.
Corporate NCNDA
Basically I draw my limit in making my own hands tied regarding my own projects.
I agree not to work for your industry competitors and I agree not to compete against you during my contract myself. All this within a reasonable time period.
I agree not to spill out your secrets within a reasonable time period, and this same contract shall be signed by every teammember that I hire in your project.
I do NOT agree to stop working on any of my existing blockchain -related projects to please you, UNLESS you specifically wish to buy a certain project out. We CAN discuss on investment into my startup or any of the projects I or my startup are working on.
Offering co-foundership in my own cryptocurrency project?
I'm pretty much open to talk with anyone who has skills, connections or money to get me started. My current focus is in solar kits that are supposed to form a decentralized power company. The kits are owned either by the company or by the customer depending on the type of contract they wish to sign.
I intend to launch services in solar power kits connected to a blockchain that manages electricity credits and revenue shares, and makes it possible to share the power produced by the kit commercially.
I have:
-Source for the equipment, including draft distributor contract for 11 MW minimum in the first two years.
-Draft blockchain platform.
I need:
-A mobile app and live implementation of the service, preferrably in Nairobi, Kenya
-Licenses to operate as an energy company and as a financial institution
-Staff & money
I'm writing this from my bedroom from my PC, so you can imagine the project basically is just a few solar installations all under construction and a few VPS at the moment.
The solar kits are supposed to run on my own cryptocurrency platform.
My own cryptocurrency project
Tribes Platform
Tribes Platform is a clone of the mineable Ethereum blockchain (before Casper) running a public blockchain. This blockchain is intended to be traded on exchanges such as Bittrex or HitBTC.
The platform and it's applications are deliberately made decentralized in order to maintain the decentralized nature of value in blockchain economy.
Alternative names
Capt. Redbeard
Hypergrid
Valuenet
m-Fi
Now, because Ethereum in it's present form can only validate a limited amount of transactions, high capacity applications such as bus tickets would need to run on a private proof of stake platform that supports ERC-20 tokens. Most contracts however can run on the public blockchain. I suppose at this point that Tendermint is the most suitable technology for accomplishing this kind of functionality.
What I do with Tribes Platform?
Wallet:
I intend to make a blockchain wallet that contains an ID and runs digital contracts in the app. The wallet owner owns the ID and the wallet owner can attach any documents to it ranging from a government ID to residency to credit history to professional certificates to medical records. The user can then choose to share these records at will. If the wallet is owned by a company, any kinds of acccounts and records can be attached to the wallet. A wallet app can contain one or more wallet accounts, which can be single-sig or multi-sig. The wallet may be used for signing digital contracts, such as deliveries, or work. The wallet may sign and send requests of signing a digital contract.
The wallet should provide access to both public and private blockchains developed by me and teammembers who would like to join hands with me in this common enterprise.
I intend to host a dAppstore where one can subscribe to digital contracts hosted on the platform directly from the wallet.
I host apps of specific types:
Types:
-Accounting, apps that appear in the wallet that read the blockchain and analyze it
-MultiSig, apps that employ arbitration, escrow or joint account services
-Proof of existence, apps that identify X
-Data signature, apps that unlock a digital contract with a state machine
-Token contracts, or transferable digital assets
-Credit-bearing contracts, such as loans, salary or welfare
I host tokens:
Solar kits & microgrids
-Own shares in the company
-Own shares in the capacity of total installed solar powerplants owned by the company and this way invest in solar parks
-Finance production of first year's solar kits and earn revenue from sales
-Transfer electricity among peers where the regulator approves of such ventures
-Buy and sell the solar kits as bearer assets
Sharing economy apps:
-Electric car
-Electric car charger
-Rent a solar kit's capacity out
-Rent a room out
-Delivery/courier/taxi service
-Tickets of all types
-Sell a skill in an open marketplace
Mobile money and Internet service delivery as tokens.
-In the future run your own ISP access point in 5G mesh network
-Satellite data access
Art as a token, especially fine art because turning each painting into a bearer asset makes them practically unforgeable. The same way, a 3D print design or a piece of designer clothing can be protected. You know which one is from a genuine source. I'm aware that Mediachain (bought up by Spotify) can already handle this, but I think that Mediachain is a good example for people like myself to follow.
A single gemstone or diamond or a lot of gemstone or diamond as a token
-Perhaps shares in mineral claims can be sold as tokens
Rental token
Land and real estate sold as bearer assets accompanying documentation
-If a real estate developer has documentation and the local regulator allows an experiment in selling futures, perhaps securities in real estate developments or industrial output can be sold in the blockchain.
Skilltokens replacing salary based on degrees. A digital certificate allows running a specific kind of work contract.
Tokens for identified, trackable commodities and goods registered through a registry service. These can be any specific goods from a carton of milk to contents of a warehouse to a container of goods to organic seeds. The registry can be done in an ATM or on a counter.
Dividend-bearing tokens, such as social security or corporate shares
Robot credits that make a machine work and make a product.
Perhaps the hottest possible topic today in blockchain technology is renting out computing services in a decentralized way, but I think that much of this talk is hype. In reality, blockchain is built to control access to resources. One still needs a framework built separately in order to control the computing power. In electrical grids, you still need the physical grid. The same way, a computing network still needs it's own infrastructure for laying out the foundation to run the service. In my view, access to fog computing, distributed AI, storage or Internet access run pretty much the same way - there are token holders and there are resource owners. Resources generate tokens by availability and capacity and token holders rent these resources out by purchasing tokens and spending them. There still needs to be the infrastructure for running the service itself. It's just my opinion but I'd run such services like sharing economy until infrastructure for network subscription is in place.
Probably the most lucrative area in digital contracts in my perspective could be financing mining services for proof of work blockchains such as Bitcoin. Data from these services is secured by the network, therefore a digital contract sending Bitcoins for investors to a mining token could prove itself profitable way to fund production of miners or a mining pool. Of course, such a contract could prove lucrative for mining the public network of this very platform.
I think that the most difference in the near future regarding blockchain technology will be made through intelligent frameworks and design platforms that streamline the digital contract design process. I'd be happy to contribute, test-drive and implement such applications in real-world processes.
Mundobitcoin used to work with BTC Point Bitcoin ATM's. I have some experience from ATM's and retail technology through this startup. I would be excited to implement ERC -20 (and perhaps ERC -725 identities) in terminal devices.
Find my contact below:
Tuomas Santakallio
tom at starwalker dot tech
tom dot starwalker at gmail dot com
Skype tuomas.santakallio
