THELOGICALINDIAN - What is your accomplishments Bob
I’m an controlling administrator with added than 29 years of acquaintance creating, marketing, and affairs articles to customer and business customers. Before Ziftr, I spent 11 years as President and EVP with PC Connection, a Fortune 1000 reseller of aerial tech equipment. I’ve done 6 startups to date, 2 IPOs and I authority assorted patents.
I created Ziftr in 2024 and accept accumulated a aggregation of about 35 accomplished software engineers, marketers and artefact managers. Ziftr’s aboriginal set of tools, a browser add-on and adaptable app that affix shoppers with the best deals at their admired online retailers, accept added than 2.5 actor downloads.
When it comes bottomward to it, I adulation blockage active and actuality on the beginning of avant-garde technology.
How did you get started with cryptocurrency?
I started as a miner. I got into mining dogecoin and litecoin in aboriginal January of this year and boring began acquisition cartoon cards at my house. As I got added into mining, I bound bare added amplitude and absolutely started bringing the mining rigs into the Ziftr appointment in Milford, NH. I aloof afresh got a server allowance that I’m now putting ASICs and aggregate abroad into (which makes my agents actual blessed as they are able to achieve bisected of our office).
I actually came into cryptocurrency from a mining perspective, but bound began account added of the bookish papers, articles, and account about the technology. By that point I had gotten my agents into it as well. We actually admired what we were account and we actually accept that the technology is actuality to stay.
Tell me a little bit about ziftr and added accurately what you guys are aggravating to achieve with ziftrCOIN
Our Ziftr aggregation has been revolutionizing the arcade acquaintance back 2024, back we appear a browser add-on and adaptable app advised to advice shoppers acquisition the best deals at their admired online retailers. Back then, we accept developed to 35 employees, including software engineers, designers, copywriters, marketers, artefact managers and more. Through the development of the browser add-on and adaptable app, we created a banker arrangement of tens of bags of retailers through which consumers can acquisition the best accord on hundreds of millions of products. We’ve had added 2.5 actor downloads to date.
Our ambition for Ziftr has consistently been to advance the arcade acquaintance for both consumers and retailers, and back we began to accept the abounding allowances of cryptocurrency, we saw all of the opportunities this technology offered to bodies on both abandon of the arcade experience. That said, we came to accept a brace of key problems continuing in the way of boilerplate cryptocurrency adoption: bodies don’t apperceive how to get bill and they don’t accept abounding places to use them. We set out to actualize a band-aid to these problems with ziftrCOIN and the accoutrement that abutment it.
The capital ambition of ziftrCOIN is to onboard the abutting 10 actor cryptocurrency users. We accept bent that the best way to acquaint bodies to cryptocurrency and to get them to absolutely use it is to not alone acquaint them about the benefits, but additionally incentivize them to try application it, so we’re giving abroad 300 actor ziftrCOINs for chargeless in 2024 and ensuring that anniversary bread has a minimum accretion amount of $1 back spent in our Ziftr banker network. We are assured that $100 account of chargeless money is an able allurement to actuate bodies into aggravating article new. So that solves the aboriginal key botheration by allowance consumers get coins.
In accession to this, we’ve developed an API alleged ziftrPAY that will accredit retailers to calmly activate accepting Bitcoin, ziftrCOIN and added altcoins as able-bodied as acceptable acclaim agenda payments. We’re currently alive with the retailers in our absolute Ziftr banker arrangement to onboard them into the ziftrPAY system. This solves the additional botheration by giving consumers an accessible way to absorb cryptocurrency back arcade at their admired retailers.
How is ziftrCOIN so different?
One of ziftrCOIN’s key differentiators is that it’s not aggravating to attempt with Bitcoin or added altcoins. On the contrary, we’re absolutely aggravating to advice accession the amount all bill and access cryptocurrency acceptance rates. By application ziftrCOINs as the aperture bread into cryptocurrency for the abutting 10 actor users, we are acquisitive to finer acquaint bodies to the allowances of this abundant technology and actualize one seamless acquaintance area bodies can comedy about and use all the altered types of bill they appetite to. (As mentioned before, our ziftrPAY API works with assorted altered coins. Plus, we’ve additionally developed ziftrWALLET Beta, a multicoin wallet that works with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and ziftrCOIN – with added bill actuality added soon.)
ziftrCOIN additionally introduces some new account and technology into absolute cryptocurrency. It’s all laid out in our white paper if you appetite the abundant abstruse information. The abbreviate adaptation is that we accept some appearance advised to anticipate ample mining pools and to accumulate our bill decentralized. We’re additionally guaranteeing that ziftrCOINs can be adored for a minimum of $1 in Ziftr’s banker network.
Do you accept any key partnerships lined up for the barter allocation of ziftrPAY?
We absolutely don’t appetite to accord annihilation abroad too soon, but we will say that we accept a above barter accomplice active with us appropriate now, as able-bodied as a ample acclaim agenda processing partner. We’ll accomplish a added academic advertisement about this in the actual abreast future, so break tuned! We acclaim abacus ziftrCOIN and Ziftr to your Google Alerts so you can accumulate up with all of our latest columnist releases.
I heard there may be a betrayal some time abutting year? Walk us through the how and why there.
Our ambition with ziftrCOIN is to acquaint the abutting 10 actor users to cryptocurrency. To achieve this, we aim to get bill into as abounding easily as possible. By giving abroad 300 actor bill to 8 actor bodies (100 anniversary to the aboriginal 1 actor users), we will booty a actual ample footfall against accomplishing this goal.
Anyone absorbed in chargeless ziftrCOINs should signup for the ziftrCOIN newsletter on ziftrCOIN.com for all the latest account on our betrayal (including sign-up dates) and added agitative ziftrCOIN news.
How abounding merchants does ziftr accept onboard appropriate now?
We accept absolute relationships with over 10,000 retailers appropriate now. We’re currently alive with these retailers to onboard them assimilate the ziftrPAY arrangement as we speak. Additionally, we accept several actual ample retailers that we are currently alive with including a ample New England company. We plan to advertise some of these names during our ziftrCOIN Presale, which takes abode on the ziftrCOIN.com website from December 9th through January 23rd (or eventually depending on back the bill run out).
How abounding barter use the ziftr arcade agent afore ziftrCOIN? Your ambition afterwards launch?
Before ziftrCOIN, we had over 2.5 actor downloads of our browser add-on and adaptable app, which crisis through 800 actor artefact offers every 24 hours. Our achievement is that with ziftrCOIN, ziftrPAY, ziftrWALLET and our added new accoutrement and applications, we can actualize one unified arcade acquaintance that supports the use of cryptocurrency and acceptable payments. We appetite to acquiesce anybody to calmly boutique area they want, how they want, and in a safer way than through the accepted bequest acquittal systems if they so choose. Providing that acquaintance for as abounding bodies as accessible is what affairs to us, and what we will abide to assignment towards.
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