Et encore un projet de #cryptomonnaie dans le transport…
Commodities Shipper Seeks $150 Million to Start Digital Coin - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-20/commodities-shipper-seeks-150-million-to-start-cryptocurrency
The shipping agency that struck the first freight deal settled in #Bitcoin is now seeking $150 million to launch its own cryptocurrency.
#Prime_Shipping_Foundation, a partnership between Gibraltar-based Quorum Capital Ltd. and ship broker Interchart LLC, is looking to raise the funds by midyear in a so-called initial coin offering. Using its own cryptocurrency would ease conversions into and out of traditional currencies, speeding settlement, according to Chief Executive Officer Ivan Vikulov.
The company was the first to execute a freight deal in Bitcoin, shipping 3,000 tons of Russian wheat to Turkey at the end of last year. While the freight charges were billed in the cryptocurrency, using digital coins to pay for the actual commodities has proven to be difficult. That’s because their lack of liquidity makes it harder to convert higher-value deals quickly into fiat currencies, he said.
“The conversion in and out of Bitcoin can sometimes take one or two days, and that’s not fast enough,” Vikulov said. “Ours will take a few seconds.”