The specific interview content is as follows:
HackCrypto: How did you come into contact with digital currency? What's your professional background?
Min Kim: I have worked in the field of science and technology for 15 years. I worked in an investment bank first, and I am very familiar with the traditional financial field, mainly in the field of science and technology investment. My clients are Yahoo, Nokia, etc. , the industry ranges from mobile phone manufacturers to semiconductor manufacturers. Therefore, I am familiar with the working methods of technology companies, and I also know the operation mode of the capital market, especially in the field of equity investment. When I was in Silicon Valley, I wanted to start my own company, so I started several start-ups in 2009, covering different industries such as e-commerce, terminal market and social media. Fortunately, working in the financial district of Silicon Valley, I have many opportunities to cooperate with Super Brain in the fields of technology and finance. Then, in 20 15, I had the opportunity to join and build one of the largest technology and finance holding companies-Dali Financial Group. This financial technology company has 25 companies, one of which is Coinone, a small digital asset trading platform. Later, I began to study Bitcoin, the operation mode of digital currency Stock Exchange and the blockchain technology behind it. Like others, the stories of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, Ethereum and so on deeply attracted me. So, although there are not many blogs about bitcoin and blockchain in 20 15, I began to read a lot of literature. Fortunately, there were forums related to Bitcoin at that time, so I got a lot of fragmented information. I integrated them and became a reference for reading at that time. At the same time, members of the Bitcoin community are constantly sharing information. In Korea, we also have our own bitcoin exchange group, and we will discuss the future development of blockchain together. Therefore, I firmly believe that this is what I want to do in the future. Blockchain is an absolutely wonderful industry, and I want to be a part of it. For these reasons, I hatched a project in Dali Financial Group called Theloop, and then we renamed it ICON Loop. Then, we were thinking about how to apply blockchain technology to more scenarios, so we began to cooperate with enterprises and began to think about how to make different things and how to make the world a better place. To make a long story short, my background is from finance to the whole financial technology, and finally I focus on the blockchain field. ICON project is a project that I have been paying attention to for the past few years.
Hackcrypto: What is the idea of the ICON project? Why is there such a slogan?
Min Kim: There are 200 countries in the world, and different countries will have their own governments, communities and citizens. But how can these different individuals work together? We find similar problems in the digital currency world. Now, there are many blockchain infrastructures in the market, but how do we make them connect and cooperate with each other? ICON will be such a solution that it will be able to interact with other public chains across chains. Therefore, we will apply the technology of ICON to the partners of enterprises and improve the application of ICON as much as possible. The ultimate goal is to make these components aggregate and interact, so we have the slogan "hyper connect the world", which is of great significance to us.
Hackcrypto: What is the significance of the P-REP election to I CON?
Min Kim: At present, the icon ecology is still in its early stage, and founders like me still have great influence. However, our main goal is only to determine the initial stage of the icon project, which is why we will publish the icon constitution, which is also the initial version of the icon project development process. However, through ICONSENSUS, we actually gave up our influence and let the community and partners really govern the whole network. Therefore, Icon Foundation will be a part of the whole ecological governance and one of the representatives of these P-REPs. Now it is a very exciting moment for us, because the real governance mechanism of * * * will be born soon, and we look forward to seeing the community-driven development of Icon Network.
HackCrypto: What can users expect from the P -Rep election?
Min Kim: First of all, we need to ensure the safety of the icon network, so we will have incentives to make the icon network run smoothly in September through incentives based on general economics. After the end of September, our team will focus on optimizing and upgrading the necessary components of the icon network, such as proposing an application part that allows community members to make suggestions and other members to vote, and finally form autonomy in the chain. I believe that ICON is a project worth looking forward to, because we are truly community-driven, and the blockchain based on ICON will have many functions. Therefore, this means that decision-making can be independent of centralized institutions, such as icon foundation, which is very special for icon ecosystem. I know many people will compare ICON with other projects. We respect such projects very much and learn a lot from them, but I think ICON is very special because we have one of the strongest online governance mechanisms.
HackCrypto: Besides P -Rep, what is the c itizen node of I CON?
Min Kim: Citizen nodes of icon refer to nodes other than P-Rep/C-Rep, but citizen nodes have no right to vote on the verification transaction and the governance of ICONRepublic, only the right to question the transaction. However, citizen nodes can give anyone who wants to contribute to the icon network an opportunity to participate without the corresponding node election.
At the end of the interview, Min Kim, co-founder of ICON, said that there will be heavy news later, but we can't say it yet. Let's wait and see!
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