FirstBlood

also referred to as: first blood

includes FirstBlood Token

14 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 16, 2017 by Joe Zhou · said 64 times in 6 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Sep 16, 2017
Disclosure
Zhou: FirstBlood Operated as 'Project Tron' on The DAO Before Hack
“Before the name first slide really came into life, we were operating under the project Tron in the DAO community, and we were one of the Most popular projects that are being supported. We're thinking about launching it, but then the whole bug happened.”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 7:49 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017
Disclosure
Zhou: FirstBlood Founders Were Allocated About 10% of Total Tokens
“The allocation, I think we had about 10% off the total.”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 22:27 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017
Disclosure
Zhou: FirstBlood Raised the Equivalent of $5 Million in Ether
“Because we raised we raised about five dollar, five million dollar equivalent ether.”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 24:12 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Zhou Admits FirstBlood's Crowdsale Token Pricing Ratio Was 'Very Arbitrary'
“That ratio is very arbitrary. We basically, you know, look at the previous projects, we did the token launch and then we came in with a number, and then we want to give early supporters the special perks, such as discounts to, you know, to join the crowdfundin…”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 17:51 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017
Assertion Supported
Zhou: FirstBlood Invented the Crypto 'Power Hour' Crowdfunding Concept
“And really the September 26th, we finished in the first hour, Because we were the inventor of the Power Hour concept for the whole crowdfunding thing.”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 9:05 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017
Assertion Contradicted
Zhou: FirstBlood's 2016 Token ICO Sold Out in Just Four Ethereum Blocks
“It was really fast. We finished within the first four blocks in the Ethereum time.”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 11:33 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017 positive
Opinion
Zhou: Why FirstBlood Needed a Custom Token for Witness Node Utility
“For that layer, both both digital currency can work. Yeah, and then you go a little bit further where there are function, functional specific utility that cannot be achieved by ether, such as this witness Witness program would be running these only decentraliz…”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 13:45 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Zhou: FirstBlood Pays Witness Node Operators From Game Winner Fees
“In first class term these people are getting paid because the winner of the game is paying a small percentage fees to the network. Part of that fees goes to the people who are running the witness.”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 16:05 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Zhou: FirstBlood Caps Witness Node Selection Impact at 1% Per Wallet
“All this selection process, ah, Has like a cap rate on on how likely you're getting selected to be participating in the network or helping the networks to be around which we did we did cap at the one percent as a maximum impact. So it doesn't matter how much y…”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 20:43 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017
Disclosure
Zhou: FirstBlood Monetizes Through Small Fees on Tournament Winnings
“First Blood is a platform that allows gamers to play games not only for fun, but also for money. The business model behind First Blood is really just, we're trying to open it up this venue for amateur gamers to compete against each other, demonstrate their ski…”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 3:01 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017 neutral
What-if
Latka: Liquidating ICO Ether Early Cost FirstBlood $69 Million in Upside
“If you had, that was in September, if you had waited just six months and liquidated all those shares at the 372,000 shares at the current price, which is almost 200 bucks, you would have basically had seventy four million dollars in cash in your bank.”
Nathan Latka Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 31:05 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Sep 16, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Zhou: FirstBlood Liquidated 80% of Its ICO Ether to Fund Operations
“We liquid about 80% of the ether post crowd sale. We remain about 20% ether in the smart contract for because we don't Yeah, we don't need them, the amount of cash in the bank.”
Joe Zhou Sep 16, 2017 ▶ 27:40 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth
Oct 2, 2017 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
FirstBlood Liquidated 80% of Its $5M ICO Immediately, Latka Reveals
“So First Blood, for example, they issued about 460,000 Ether, which came out to about five million dollars in total value. He told me they immediately liquidated 80%, so they put four million, basically, at the, at that time, Ether was valued at 11 bucks, righ…”
Nathan Latka Oct 2, 2017 ▶ 14:42 800: Crypto: He's Advisor Behind Worlds Top ICO's
Oct 2, 2017 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Crypto Hype, Not Project Vision, Drives Inflated ICO Valuations, Latka Argues
“Well, see, my thing is, is I think the reason on that all these ICOs are being valued so highly is because people are drinking the crypto hype, not the first blood vision hype. So people are just pouring money into crypto wherever they can, and it's driving al…”
Nathan Latka Oct 2, 2017 ▶ 16:58 800: Crypto: He's Advisor Behind Worlds Top ICO's
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