In this interview, I speak with Matthias Klees the grand leader of Europecoin and their latest project the Federated Blockchain Finance Cloud API device. That was a mouthful. Essentially an Alexa for the blockchain.
Europecoin was created in May 2014 and died within one month of its creation. Then after being inactive for six months, Matthias Klees, like some modern Dr. Cryptostein, zapped the bloated corpse of Europecoin and resurrected it ready for the bull run of 2017. During the bull run, it went from it’s lowest price of a fraction of a cent to $1.30 possibly making Matthias very rich but Europecoin is not doing so well now. It can’t be found on any mainstream exchanges and from the look of it the trade volume has bottomed out at literally $0 a day. You may ask why on earth would you pay for a stand at a blockchain summit when no-one can even buy your coin? Well, Matthias Klees has brought Europecoin back from the dead once before maybe he can do it a second time?
So what did Matthias tell us about the future of Europecoin and their product the Federated Blockchain Finance Cloud API device, is this the craziest project in crypto history and more importantly will they give it a shorter easier name to remember and say? To find out let’s take a look.
One thing I noticed during my interview with Klees is how eccentric the guy is. Very energetic and friendly even when you get to know the guy you begin to like him and then before you know it your a member of the Europecoin cult, or at least that’s what it looks like when you check out the project’s website.
For a crypto that’s been around since 2014, you would have expected the website to show a bit of polish but it doesn’t. In fact, it’s so lacking in a decent user interface and design that you end up browsing through the site just to see if they got anything done by an actual web developer. It’s then that you come across Europecoin’s mission statement to be a universal currency, with many goals, features, and use cases, but to remain dedicated, to build up a force of “grassroots lobbyism” against corporate political influence and for decentralization of powers in Europe.
If this all sounds a bit too much like activism then you’ll not be surprised by the videos on the site, while this one looks like the beginning of a beheading video it’s actually a promo for the coin. At points, I did think they were signaling for rescue but an internet search has found they are all alive and safe.
The thing to remember here though is that Klees really does believe in his project. He brought Europecoin from nothing to $1.30 and even though it would be challenging there’s nothing to say that he can’t do it again. It’s usually the eccentric people that get things started and Klees has eccentricity and character in abundance.
The coin may be out of the game for now but the Federated Blockchain Finance Cloud API device’s production is set to begin soon and there’s no ICO or additional funding required so if they pull it off then we could be looking at the second coming of Europecoin and a device that makes trading crypto and ordering pizza a hands free experience. The only question is whether anyone will want to buy one?
In theory, I can see it being used for swing trades if you perhaps can’t be sat at the desk all day or it could be used to give you price alerts. The NFC payment feature is also quite interesting but we will have to wait for a working prototype to see just how effective it is.
Can you see any uses for a crypto Alexa? Would it be useful to have audible alerts for price movements and then to be able to act on those with voice commands? What do you see the potential uses being for something like this? Let us know in the comments below.
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