Quote from: bradpink on October 22, 2017, 08:30:11 PM

Quote from: whoeier on October 22, 2017, 06:35:22 PM

Interesting story, is the platform intended to go worldwide?

If laws and the risk of FBI etc seizing the data, why not locate the company to a more ok country, like for example the Netherlands? Who allow this kind of technology as long as it is proven to not support trafficing etc.

Eventually we will launch most major cities. For now, we are focusing on CA/IE/UK/US. We should have between over 10 cities online (conservative) by the end of 2018.

We do take advantage of jurisdictional friction to aid us. But we cannot count on these countries protecting us. We will be operating worldwide, and local laws such as NL has won't apply overseas. The US is known to play dirty. So while we could take advantage of our citizenships, only hire people with certain citizenship, live there and never travel ... it is playing a dangerous game. At best we would end up in a long legal fight. Even if we win, that is a waste of money and time.

true and untrue,

The law in the Netherlands is quite clear upon data-storage on who is the rightfull owner, as long as the company is registered in the Netherlands, it will be a hard and harsh fight for the US and other country's to lay down a claim upon data, especially when it is not again the local law of the Netherlands.

I'm aware that not everything is as "ok" as we sometimes believe, but keeping stuff liquid on RAM-drives means u'll have multiple servers hosted across the globe and perhaps an server nearby your location to collect a backup in case of.. well you know