Company

Summary

Eventually, we'll likely want to set up a legal entity in a country of our choosing, in order to be able to conduct business in the plain old business environent/bureaucracy set up by the world's nation states.

Both the general (shareholding etc.) concepts for founding this company, as well as their specific implementation are undecided at the moment, and need some research first. Please add your notes, whenever you find yourself doing a little bit of that research or stumbling upon any facts that might be useful here!

Shareholding

Needs

Notes from discussions so far:

• Everybody has different levels of time to invest and continuous commitment they can offer. Shareholding should be flexible to accommodate that, both in the beginning as well as continuously.
• If possible, it'd be nice to be able to give (esp. early) outside contributors a part of the potential success as well. Possibly through crypto tokens, redeemable as stock options e.g.
• Whatever we come up with should be rather simple and understandable by everyone. If it's not possible for everyone to understand the agreement itself or its technical implementation (concept), then that must be considered a failure.

Jurisdiction

There are many nations in the world, but we'll have to choose at least one initially. Let's collect some notes on options.

Countries

Country	TLD	Corp tax	Currency	Notes
Isle of Man	.im	0%	IMP/GBP	Favorable to crypto currency businesses, although local banks seem to have cut ties to Bitcoin startups Home to many online gambling sites Crown dependency, tied to the UK Regarded as UK in terms of VAT (applicable in EU, 20%)

Notes and random links

• Ease of doing business index