THELOGICALINDIAN - Saifu is attractive to arch the gap amid authorization and agenda currencies and accompany admission to banking casework to the added than 2 actor unbanked and underbanked bodies about the apple Bitcoinist afresh sat bottomward with Zach Murray business administrator of the Czechbased startup to altercate the claim of the belvedere their accessible ICO and their accord in the afresh completed Asian Tour 2024 roadshow
Bitcoinist: For our readers who may not be accustomed with Saifu, can you accord us a quick overview of what the belvedere is?
ZM: Saifu is a simple, secure, and adapted belvedere that integrates authorization and cryptocurrencies into one account. On the Saifu app or web portal, users can buy or advertise cryptocurrencies, barter amid authorization currencies (Euros to USD, for example), or accelerate any of these to alfresco accounts and wallets. Saifu users can additionally acquire a Mastercard that they can use anywhere Mastercard is accepted, and their purchases can be seamlessly adjourned from their Saifu accounts. We additionally action barter and acquittal processing casework for businesses who appetite to acquire or accomplish payments with cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoinist: One of the better barriers to boilerplate acceptance of cryptocurrencies has been abridgement of accessibility for the boilerplate consumer. How does Saifu advice lower that barrier?
ZM: Our primary ambition is to abolish that barrier to boilerplate crypto acceptance in a safe and adapted way. Saifu will accomplish buying, selling, and application cryptocurrencies aloof as accessible as application a acceptable online coffer account, with the aforementioned akin of aegis and regulation. With Saifu it’s as accessible topping up your coffer account, and aloof as secure.
Bitcoinist: Cryptocurrency detractors adulation to point out that cryptocurrencies aren’t calmly chip into circadian transactions. What are your thoughts on that and how does Saifu fit into that equation?
ZM: There’s some accuracy to that statement. Some above online retailers acquire Bitcoin and a few added cryptos, and there are a few casework that accommodate prepaid cards adjourned with cryptocurrency. But overall, it’s still absolutely difficult to absorb cryptocurrency like fiat.
We’re activity to change that by authoritative cryptocurrency affairs as accessible and safe as application your acclaim or debit card. Want to buy some Bitcoin? Open up the Saifu app and access the bulk you’d like to buy – we’ll get you the best amount from the above exchanges and you can pay with your acclaim agenda or coffer account. Want to advertise some Ether? It’s aloof as easy, and the funds can go into your Saifu annual or you can accelerate them to your bank. Want to pay for groceries? Aloof use your Saifu Mastercard – we’ll catechumen your cryptocurrency to authorization seamlessly – and at the best ante available. And if you’re a business buyer that wants to be allotment of the crypto revolution, our business accounts acquiesce you to acquire and barter cryptocurrencies with ease.
Bitcoinist: There are added platforms that affirmation to “bridge the gap” amid authorization and agenda currencies. What makes Saifu different?
ZM: We accept some ample advantages over our competitors. First and foremost, we’re the best defended and are absolutely adapted beneath our own license. All our customers’ keys are created and stored in accouterments aegis modules developed with our partner, Thales, the all-around baton in cyberbanking cybersecurity. Cryptocurrency affairs canyon through our operational and Saifu Crypto Vault that crave two concrete keycards to access. And our cybersecurity is overseen by the above arch of DDoS aegis at Kaspersky.
We’ve additionally called to be regulated. We’re accountant by the Czech National Bank, so we’re accountable to accustomed audits, and all aspects of our business charge be accustomed by the regulator. And we’ve aloof partnered with accountancy behemoth Deloitte to analysis our business and circadian operations. We’re additionally in the action of applying for some added licenses in added jurisdictions.
In accession to those key advantages, we additionally action added appearance than our competitors. For example, some casework acquiesce you to buy and advertise cryptocurrency in your account, but it can’t be transferred out or spent anon – they don’t accomplish cryptocurrency accessible like Saifu does. Other competitors action prepaid cards that you can armamentarium with authorization currency, but they accept to be preloaded, and a lot of those firms were application cards issued by WaveCrest, whose cards were all canceled by Visa. Finally, some competitors affirmation they will action a abounding ambit of casework but are blurred on dates and details. Their affairs change with every Q&A session, and they’ve been about to absolution appearance “soon” for the six months. Saifu already has a anatomic belvedere in bankrupt beta, with our accessible beta appointed to be accessible in the aboriginal division of 2024.
Bitcoinist: What are the key appearance of the belvedere that users will acquisition to be the best useful?
ZM: For our alone users, the Saifu app, which lets you calmly administer your crypto and authorization currencies in one account, and the affiliated Saifu prepaid Mastercard, which you can use anywhere Mastercard is accepted. For our business users, the adeptness to acquire and accomplish payments in cryptocurrencies, buy or advertise them as needed, and the adeptness to pay your advisers in cryptocurrency (this aftermost affection is still aboriginal in development).
Bitcoinist: I apprehend that an estimated 2 billion adults common are unbanked or underbanked – that is, they don’t accept admission to alike basal banking services. How can Saifu advice them?
ZM: Our ambition is to accompany Saifu to every bend of the globe. If you accept admission to a smartphone and can complete the simple KYC action by uploading a government-issued ID and annual bill, you can accessible a Saifu account. Because Saifu accounts accept IBAN numbers, you can wire in funds via SEPA/SWIFT to get started. Saifu additionally allows you to accelerate crypto or authorization to added Saifu users; this could acutely abate the amount of sending remittances home, compared to application casework like Western Union or MoneyGram.
Bitcoinist: Saifu has partnered with Thales Group. What amount do they add to the Saifu platform?
ZM: Thales is a aegis giant, and they accompany decades of acquaintance attention aggregate from airports, to analytical infrastructure, to all-embracing banks. What we’ve done, is booty that aegis and acclimate it to cryptocurrencies. This was a complicated action and took us over a year to develop. We use Thales nShield Hardware Aegis Modules for this solution. The keys are created in the modules and can alone be accessed by two trusted techs on-site with admission cards. Because the keys can never leave the bore and accept this bifold aegis system, alike if we’re hacked, our customers’ keys are still safe.
Bitcoinist: Is Saifu regulated? How does it affect/benefit your users?
ZM: Very abundant so. We’re accountant by the Czech National Bank as a acquittal institution. The CNB requires us to accede with accurate rules and regulations. Even our authoritative anatomy charge be approved. We’re additionally appropriate to be consistently audited, and we’ve aloof appear a affiliation with Deloitte for that purpose. This gives our users article invaluable – accord of mind.
Bitcoinist: The Saifu ICO ends on April 30. What is the accepted barter amount per SAIFU token? Are there bonuses actuality offered? Which crypto and authorization currencies do you accept?
ZM: The Saifu badge (SFU) is currently for auction at a amount of 0.0001 BTC. ICO participants can pay with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ether, Dogecoin, or wire transfers (with some restrictions). Right now all SFU buyers accept a barometer link, and if addition signs up with their barometer articulation and buys SFU, they’ll accept SFU according to 5% of their purchase. We additionally accept benefit structures for beyond contributions that we’re blessed to altercate with anybody interested.
Bitcoinist: I accept that Saifu afresh took allotment in the Asian Tour 2024 roadshow. Where did you appointment and what was the purpose of the roadshow?
ZM: Yes, we went to Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Beijing, and Shanghai. The capital purpose of the cruise was to allotment account about Saifu, attending for bounded partners, and analyze business opportunities in those regions.
Bitcoinist: What was your consequence of the roadshow experience? Would you acclaim it to added startups attractive to accession awareness?
ZM: It was absolutely fun accepting out and talking to bodies in the blockchain association from added countries. Giving presentations with active interpretations was absolutely a new experience. It’s absolutely easier than accustomed presentations…but you accept to bethink what’s on all of your slides.
Bitcoinist: What was your better takeaway from the roadshow?
ZM: Taipei is a big new centermost for blockchain. They’re alive on self-regulation and accept a head in abode for approaching development. We’re actively because ambience up an appointment there to booty part.
Bitcoinist: Is there annihilation abroad you would like our readers to apperceive about Saifu?
ZM: We’re absolutely aflame about our project, and the bazaar for our casework is growing every day. What we’re alms now is about a presale of our services, with accomplished adherence allowances for those who authority and use our tokens. Barter get a aggregate of tokens aback and discounts for application and captivation tokens in cogent volumes. Getting in on our badge at this akin helps barter to get best aegis and use appearance for crypto and authorization services.
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