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Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
Coinworks
Monday March 23rd, 2015
What is Bitcoin?
You don’t need to understand
how it works!
Nobody understands …
how the internet works
how email works
how a car works
how money works.
They still use them.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin with a capital B
Bitcoin with a small b
The Hype Cycle
(source Gartner)
The Hype Cycle
(source Gartner)
The Nasdaq 1998 - 2007
Money transfer
• $550bn transferred globally in 2013
• Generating $49bn of fees
• With Bitcoin at 1% those fees fall to $5.5bn
• Saving = $43 bn / 90%
Source – Goldman Sachs
Electronic payments in retail
• 2013 transaction fees were $260bn on $10trn
of sales.
• Bitcoin would be $104bn, saving = $150 bn
• ‘small merchants will benefit most … reducing
payment processing fees by half’.
• Great for low-margin businesses
Source – Goldman Sachs
Who we are
• UK based Investment team
• Experience in fund management and corporate finance
• Leading figures in the crypto currency space
• Pre-IPO offering at 5p raising a minimum of £150,000
• Planned IPO on AIM to raise minimum of £3m
• Target additional raise once funds have been deployed
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What we do
• Identify trends and companies with the innovation, leadership
and drive to build commercial and scalable companies
• Support these companies with the investment, mentoring,
facilities and the commercial framework to succeed
• Building the digital currency and block chain technology space
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Fintech and disruption
Established monopolies being disrupted: Fintech is to
established finance sector what e-commerce was to retailing
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Payments and clearing (Stripe)
Remittances (Transferwise)
FX (The Currency Cloud)
Lending (Zopa)
Securities issuance/crowdfunding (Crowdcube)
Digital currency / block chain – our growth space
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UK government support
• Treasury announcement (March 18) supportive of digital
currency innovation
• Digital currency exchanges to be recognised and regulated
• FCA regulatory sandbox to encourage start ups
• BSI to lead standards initiative
• UK government funding for research into digital currency
opportunities
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The next stage of the internet
Block chain technology is the second phase of the Internet –
the distributed trust network for transferring value that the
Internet has always needed
Block chain
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Digital currency - metrics
Source: Coindesk, State of Bitcoin 2015 – figures as of 31 December 2014
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Digital currency - VC Funding
1Q2015 $200m
2015 Projected: $800m
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Funding the Internet 2.0
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2014 fundraising
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2015 completed fundraises
• Coinbase (bitcoin wallet and regulated US exchange)
– US$75m on a valuation of US$400m
– Backed by New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Spanish bank
BBVA and Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo.
• 21 Inc (mass consumer implementation)
– US$116m (largest raise to date)
– Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Qualcomm, eBay founder
Peter Thiel and Dropbox CEO Drew Houston
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Returns and upside potential
2012
2014
Raised
US$30.5m
Valuation
US$153m
200x return
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Additional blockchain use cases
• Internet of things
• Asset issuance and exchange
• Proof of existence / time-stamping
• Smart contracts
• Data storage
• Distributed crowdfunding / exchange /custody
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Investment Focus
4 Pillars:
- Block chain infrastructure
- Security and certification
- Exchanges
- Payments and remittances
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Investment criteria
• Criteria
– Must be commercial
– Developed business plan
– Cash generation potential
– Management: tech skills + business development
– Significant market opportunity
• Board position/significant influence day-to-day
• Minimum investment of £50k
• Generally no less than 10% of a company (except pre-IPO/IPO)
We will not be investing into bitcoin or any digital currencies or tokens
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Potential investments (1)
• Buying vouchers with digital
currencies – founded Feb 2014
• From zero to £600k in
revenue/£40k in profit in 12
months
• Gyft in US - comparison
– founded June 2012 – first
external fundraising round
US$1.25m
– Sold to First Data for ~US$50m
in July 2014
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Potential investments (2)
• Digital assets exchange – founded August 2014
• Aim to become industry clearinghouse for digital equities,
crypto-futures and smart contracts
• 0.2% - 2% spread per transaction
• From zero to volume of US$350,000 a month in 6 months
• Valuation $4.6m – target first year revenue of US$1.8m
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Summary
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Strong UK centred team
Disciplined investment approach
Pipeline of potential opportunities identified
Dramatic opportunities from the disruptive potential of block
chain technology
• Listed vehicle providing regulated monitored framework
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Appendix
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Board of directors
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Adam Cleary; Director
Adam Cleary is the Founder of Bullion Bitcoin Limited which operates bullionbitcoin.com - a bitcoin to gold bullion exchange
platform. He is also the Chief Executive of Coin Capital Limited, a regulated investment management firm investing in digital
currency businesses and a Director and Founder Member of the UK Digital Currency Association, the trade association that
promotes digital currencies in the UK. Adam is a leading figure in the UK digital currency sector. Prior to becoming involved
in financial technology and digital currency Adam worked as an investment manager and research analyst at a number of
investment banks in London and Hong Kong. Adam’s role will be to source and assess potential investments, and work with
investee companies to monitor the digital currency technology proposition and the business as a whole.
Christian West; Director
Christian has worked in the capital markets as both a fund manager and broker since 1998. He is and has been a director of a
number of financial mining and natural resources companies, both private and public. He is a Director of RDP Limited, a
venture capital group specializing in natural resource investments. Christian’s role will be to assess potential investments and
work with investee companies to develop their brand and promote business development and commercialisation.
David Hutchins; Non-Executive Chairman
David (“Sam”) Hutchins has over 30 years of investment experience in Australia and the UK and is currently a partner in RDP
Fund Management LLP, the investment manager for London listed Global Resources Investment Trust plc. He has been a
director of numerous public and private companies, including “start-up” companies, such as www.minesite.com, a resource
industry specific news related website and conference business. David is Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities &
Investments and a Member of the FTSE Gold Mines Index Committee.
Dominic Frisby: Non-Executive Director
Dominic is the author of two books - Life After The State ("fascinating, alarming, contentious" James Harding) and Bitcoin;
the Future of Money? ("Read it and glimpse into he future", Sir Richard Branson).He writes a weekly column for MoneyWeek
magazine, as well as various other publications, and is MoneyWeek's commentator on gold, cryptocurrencies and
commodities. As an investor, he has a long history investing in small caps, particularly junior resource companies and tech.
He is the presenter and producer of Frisby's Bulls & Bears - an internet radio show in which he discusses financial and
economic matters with leading lights of the sector.
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Advisors
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Brokers
Smaller Company Capital Limited
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Lawyers
DMH Stallards
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NOMAD
Cairn Financial
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Reporting Accountant
TBC
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Company secretary
Geoffrey Cole & Co
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Disclaimer
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All forward looking statements, performance and risk targets contained herein are subject to change without notice. There can be no
assurance that the Company will achieve any targets or that there will be any return on capital. Historical returns are not predictive of
future results. The Company is involved in the cryptocurrency sector and uses bitcoin - investments in this sector carry much greater risks
than traditional investments and may be considered high risk and volatile. There is a risk of total loss of the amount invested – please refer
to the definitive Offering Document for a full list of risks.
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