Thanks I will check it now!

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I'm not planning to leave my partners, as I said i'm the person who developed the idea and the platform, I did most of the work.
So in case I will join another company everybody involved will be part of the deal.
This is not the best solution but i'm afraid that if I wait 1 year somebody else will come with the same business and i would have waste 2 years of my life for nothing.

I'm thinking about to join another business that already has a license and maybe give him some percentages of the profits.
This until i don't get my own license of course.

Hopefully those information can be useful to other people too, so this is what i found out so far:

- Malta requires a VPA license (1 year)
- Estonia requires a license (1 year) it requires 50k as company capital and the actual process cost around 100k
- Netherlands it doesn't require a crypto license, but the lawyer told me that they still want you to get a license related to fiat even if you don't use them(it depends on the business model)
- Honk kong (not clear) I managed to speak with somebody, this guy was calling cryptocurrency "crystal currency" all the time so i'm not sure if he is really quilified (he adviced me to contact their office in Liechtenstein)
- Liechtenstein I called them and I will receive a call back from them, not sure when.
- Saudi Arabia according to internet is now illegal to start trading crypto company there, so I haven't reached nobody
- Japan I haven't called no one, but it looks it is the most difficul place where you can start a crypto trading business
- Russia, it looks like you need some license there too, but I will investigate a little more

Does anyone have more suggestions? thanks 

Thanks I will make some research, i found out that maybe Netherlands could be a solution too.

Yes that's what I have been doing, i spoke to an Estonia lawyer and to a Malta lawyer, they both told me that in their country i must get the license in order to get started with the business, I'm looking for a country that can be a better fit for my company.

Yes I think that's the point, on top of that  I guess it's important not to provide the service to people who come from regulated countries.
I guess I need to look for a country that has no regulation about bitcoin and establish there, it's just not easy to find the right place.

It's nor hard but it's expensive and it takes a lot of time.
For instance in Estonia you need at least 50k as company capital plus the actual process to get the license cost up to 100k, on top of that it takes about a year.
So my plan is to get started without a license and apply for it asap.
It looks like starting a crypto business is not for everyone. At least not anymore.
I'm looking for legal solutions of course.

Thanks Cindy for your reply, it looks like most of the business that managed to get a license they did while running an ICO, I didn't ask anybody directly but that is what seems to be like the pattern, while raising funds from the ICO use the first funds received to acquire the license.

Anyways it's hard to talk to somebody involved with a similar company because they see you like a competitor, so of course it's not in their interest to help you.

I had an idea about running an ICO, but my token would be considered as security token, and according to the lawyer I asked informations to set up the ICO would have costed me something like 400k (without counting the money required for marketing).

I think I might be able to get investors, but having the platform ready and not being able to launch it because a license it kind of hurts 

I know there are 100's of websites that do provide trading services without being regulated or without having any license, i don't know how to do that without getting in trouble and what would be the best way to do that.

Meanwhile of course I will apply to get a license, because I want to provide to my users a service that is regulated.

Thanks! your answer was very useful, I'm from Italy and I did some research, Estonia and Malta are the best options for eu based companies, however both require a license, it may take up to 1 year to get it.
I did some research as well on ICO and to set up an ICO is very expensive, plus I don't need millions of dollars to be fair to run this project so I decided not to go with it.
I really want to be regulated but I don't really want to wait a year, that's the main issue.
My business model is not exactly based on an exchange it's more like a real trading platform (think it like forex), so I need something different according to the lawyer I have been speaking to.
They told me I need a license called VFA (malta).
It's very interesting the fact that if I register the company here in Italy I don't need a license, I didn't know that, so I will look for it.
Thank you again.

Hi everybody, I spent the last year building a cryptocurrency based trading platform different from anything else available in the market.
I'm now in the phase where I need to register the company and get started with the licenses process.
I know that until sometime ago most of the exchanges and trading platform didn't had any license, is there a way to get started without a license (legally) and apply for it later on?
I wonder how most of cryptocurrency projects can afford to go live if they have low budget like myself.
I hope somebody can help me to figure out 

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That's the issue, what if a conversion goes bad and a user gets in his balance 1000's of bitcoin?
is that what you mean?
https://play.golang.org/p/rJncvBvqyEP

Hey everybody, I was wondering what would be the best data type to use for bitcoin.
Both float32 and float64 are not recommended to use for money representation, what can be a valid solution?

It's not about not having any idea, I was just looking for some reference to improve.

You have just described a copy writer

I can confirm it's not easy at all