This is a shitcoin extraordinaire.
I questioned the merits of making a currency for that region of the world- yes, combining all those countries as if you are making something like the euro but for that region- and having it for the merchants to use, over something like bitcoin or litecoin or dash. " the local merchants want to use something in their language " was my response. Now go to their website- see if you can find anything written in any other language apart from... english.
Do you follow their Facebook, Twitter or Youtube, I guess you missed this stuff in Thai:
https://www.blognone.com/node/93100https://twitter.com/BitAseanTeam/status/877561331548684293https://th-th.facebook.com/BitAsean/BTW: I'm pretty sure English is the 2nd official language of Thailand.
It may be that a certain percentage of the population speaks english, though it isn't great at all, but if you think all those merchants in the various regions it's trying to unify speak english and therefore can go on their website and see what they are all about then you are mistaken. Whatever, we all live in our own bubbles anyway. Your dollar to fritter as you like!
I believe the website is forward facing for the world. And the world's most common language is English. As for their work in Thailand I believe such business relationships would be done through other more personal channels.
I'm not saying that they should have english. Don't you think the lack of any other language is suspicious? It would be like the equavalent of making a latin america coin and only having it in english, not portuguese or brazlian.
I believe the website looks like a piece of turd and their whitepaper is a also just saying nothing at all, but hey, different folks different strokes. Let's see where we are in 6 months, I hope i'm wrong
Guys, if you know Asia well, English is everywhere except China. Most of the parts even more then their local language, majority countries have govt documentation and websites in English. So having website in English for ASEA is a common ground because ASEA have multiple countries which have different language, having common ground as English language. If you talk about whitepaper, all crypto coins have that in same way but they evolve with time. All I see here is a working team which means a lot to me.