Discussion about Bitcoin and related topics

Bitcoin meetup - meet the local bitcoiners, network, present your projects and ideas or just hang out!

PITCHES:

19:20-20:00 GEMS

GEMS

http://vimeo.com/106725097

Coindesk (http://www.coindesk.com/gems-bitcoin-app-lets-users-earn-money-social-messaging/)

BCT (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=758004.0)

Introduction

The beauty of recent developments based on the innovative Bitcoin technology is that they allow the public to claim control over previously centralized endeavours. By creating automated, trustless interactions over the network, we can now build systems that do not require concentrated power to maintain order in. Rather, the power is spread throughout the network and is left in our hands, the active participants in it.
The Bitcoin revolution has brought us control over our money. In this position of control, we are its owners and we decide what to do with it, uninhibited by the interests of those in positions of great influence. Here at Gems, we are attempting to do the same, only with the basic communication method of the Information Age - text messaging.
Current IM applications, such as Skype or WhatsApp, use the information you provide to them for their own benefit. They maintain huge databases characterizing you and your behavior in an attempt to profit from it. From the networks that you create with your friends and family.In this unique point in time, we are able to take this power from them, and keep the value we create in our networks to ourselves.
By disconnecting the application from its current axiom of generating revenue for its corporate owner, we can move development in the direction of supporting the network and its users. It becomes an ever-evolving social product, shaped to facilitate our need and desire to communicate.

About

The primary goal of Gems is to make it easy for millions of people to adopt bitcoin and own the networks we build. Read more (http://getgems.org/) about how Gems is going to reclaime social networks from the control of traditional establishments. Gems is a new 2nd generation cryptocurrency powered by Counterparty.

The platform is built on top of Bitcoin.

Gems is The First Social Currency Network.

Gems is a social messaging app bringing crypto-currency to the masses.

Gems is designed from the ground up with this goal in mind.

Gems relies on a Public Sell for initial distribution of the supply.

The total amount of Gems in existence is 100'000'000 (100M).

Topics include everything that remotely touches Bitcoin.