Thank you very much to everyone who participated and followed yesterday’s AMA. For those who could not do it, below you can find the Q&A compilation.

(Original link: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfkey/comments/86aitb/selfkey_founder_edmund_lowell_ama_on_thursday/)

Is any effort being made to have KEY added to more exchanges or add more trading pairs to existing exchanges? I understand that product development is the main focus however it would make a big difference for the community if KEY would follow the general market trend rather then just keep slipping lower and lower. The people who have funded your ICO are now disadvantaged compared to people buying in cheap now or in future.

Hi 1983Lucky, thank you very much for your question. I understand your concern, but the final decision on whether exchanges will list the KEY token relies on them. However, we listen and understand our community demands and we are working to fulfill them.

We are aware of the current overall market downtrend and we are taking steps to boost brand awareness — we always take deliberate steps based on the long-term sustainability of the project, and not steps that may sacrifice long term success for immediate, but short-lived benefits.

This has just started and the SelfKey project has come to stay. We are not a project looking for short term hype.

Nonetheless, I can tell you that we are in talks with several exchanges to accept account sign up from the Identity Wallet. We won’t comment more specifically until if and when agreements are officially executed.

Thank you very much for your support and I invite you to be part of SelfKey for many years — where perhaps you might look back at this question and laugh a deep belly laugh! Remember that “cheap” is very relative!

There is a lot of buzz around regulations and KYC. But still, no one is talking about Selfkey. How do you plan to improve the awareness about Selfkey?

Hi yourpapa77, thank you for your question.

I agree that crypto regulations and KYC are a trending topic. However, I don’t agree that no one is talking about SelfKey. We are working intently on business development, we are getting inbound inquiries multiple times daily, and I think we are making meaningful progress.

However, from a PR standpoint we could have more presence, I agree. This is why our marketing team has hired a dedicated PR specialist to boost our public exposure and tell the world how we can help exchanges and other crypto companies on their compliance issues.

We are already a part of this narrative, but we will always work to further spread the word on our brand.

Thank you very much for your support!

Where can we get more information on SelfKey’s plans to recruit Certifiers and Relying Parties? In other words, is there a sales strategy in place to recruit exchanges, banks, lawyers, accountants, etc?

Hi tempestcut, I appreciate your question and you having taken the time to read our whitepaper and use the correct terminology! Thank you.

We have a dedicated business development team for each market vertical we are pursuing — and the requisite Relying Parties and Certifiers therein.

Part of this is market entry includes careful market research to enter the right markets at the right time. Finally, we have been cultivating partnerships with consulting firms that may be a source of referrals for relying parties. We are also attending blockchain and fintech events to do networking and secure more partnerships.

We are also creating a new comprehensive SEO-optimized website on our KYC services to give them more exposure.

As you can see, we are working on a lot of fronts! However, I can tell you that we are receiving incoming business requests on a daily basis and have made strides to make our KYC software more scalable to meet demand.

With regard to certifiers, we have secured agreements with notaries to verify identities within SelfKey. Another area we have made process is with translators, which we’ve publicly announced.

There is a lot of “behind the scenes” work, but I can tell you that business development is the area, after product development, to which we are allocating more resources. Recently we brought on former head of sales for a major financial tech company in SE Asia to lead our business development efforts and have already seen evidence this new hire will bear fruit!

Lots of progress being made on this front, and more to come.

Thank you very much for your support!

How is Selfkey better or worse than Civic and TheKey?

Hi yourpapa77,

Civic and TheKey are different projects, with different goals. I wouldn’t say that we are better or worse. Judgement should be done by our audience and not by us publicly. However, perhaps I can help you to judge for yourself by giving you some facts:

Our core team has been developing KYC and identity software since 2014. Since that time, we had a lot of clients for which we have powered their KYC. This includes deploying software capable of performing sanction screening, document scanning, OCR and Biometric Matching, company registry look up, automated processes based on risk scoring, audit trail through the blockchain, among other KYC tools. The software is capable of performing financial institution grade KYC — we worked with Standard Chartered Bank in its development (https://www.sc.com/en/navigate-the-future/my-fintech-story-from-blockchain-start-up-to-working-with-a-bank/)

Now we go a step further, and we are developing a consumer wallet so not only service providers can conduct a seamless KYC process to screen individuals and companies. Also, individuals and companies can securely build their reusable KYC profile, have it verified and go through financial services KYC processes with a few clicks. The KYC software was built to incorporate the services of relying parties and certifiers in a marketplace. I think this greatly adds value to an already incredible platform.

In my opinion our application is robust and utilitarian in ways that some competitors do not rise to the level of, and here is why: we are developing an app with which users are capable to either request document e-notarization/certification (traditional means, but fully digital and usable with current laws) and request blockchain signed verified claims standard (what we will use in the future, but not yet applicable with current laws — we first need to prove to authorities that this is a more reliable and secure way to verify identities).

What does this mean?

This means we can ‘cross the chasm’ between what’s currently legally acceptable, and what technology is fully capable of accomplishing!

This means that our application can potentially be used to verify identities and onboard onto any financial service that requires KYC, in the real world — today. This also means that our app scope is broader, is likely more attractive to service providers and certifiers, and is therefore ready for a broad scope of adoption. And, it means that we can survive into the future as laws and regulations change the way identity is managed.

In the broad view, at this point I do not see Civic as a direct competitor. As a CEO of a blockchain identity startup once said to me: “We are both mosquitos at a nudist colony.” We are at the beginning of the adoption of decentralized identity systems globally — and this market will materialize because of numerous companies creating solutions that are interoperable — not because of more silos. Civic and SelfKey are both members of DIF, and we welcome any collaboration.

With regard to TheKey, they have a totally different purpose, product and approach. The SelfKey Foundation was formed with the purpose of developing a decentralized self-sovereign identity system to enhance individual freedoms related to digital identity.

Although there doesn’t seem to be many public details on their proposition, TheKey seems to be developing a system that matches identity data provided by an individual with identity data stored in silo’d government databases (we are unsure how a Singapore-based project can secure long term agreements for use of tokens with Chinese governmental authorities that have publicly banned ICOs and tokens?). In my mind, this data silo approach is not a decentralized solution, and arguably does not need a blockchain or token. I think this is totally different from what we are building.

People usually compare us to them because they launched shortly after us, chose a similar name, chose a similar color scheme, and claimed to be in the blockchain identity space. I personally don’t think we have much in common.

Hope you have found this helpful, Thank you very much for your continued support.

What are the benefits of holding KEY?

Hello again yourpapa77.

KEY will be a powerful and necessary tool to perform actions within the SelfKey Network. It will be used to enable trust and reputation and to incentivize good practices. KEY will be used as a mechanism for quick and hassle-free onboarding onto any of the services in the SelfKey marketplace, such as financial and immigration services.

These services will require KEY to be staked in order to access. I suggest reading an article we have written a while ago which explains it more comprehensively: https://blog.selfkey.org/the-key-token-economy-7b1a50a850db

It will also be a requirement for any relying party, certifier to have staked KEY to use the system.

Thank you again for your question.

In order to sign user’s identity claims, Selfkey has to make a lot of partnerships with banks, utility companies, immigration authorities, hospitals, etc in many countries. This sounds like a lot of work. How are you planning to approach this task? Thanks

Hi Genadworth,

Question: How does one eat an elephant?

Answer: One bite at a time!

:-)

We will go step by step, and be realistic to ensure that we concentrate our efforts on what is feasible according to the project phase and not waste time and resources. We must prioritize for speed, so going after markets which are ready to adopt our services is crucial.

The first Certifiers of the SelfKey network are notaries and translators — we have partnerships in place. Relying parties are also signed, and our app is built and being tested!

As an example, immigration services is a priority for us as is shown in our marketplace demo (alpha.selfkey.org/marketplace)

These residency by investment and citizenship by investment programs have applications which are required to be processed by government authorized immigration agents.

We have partnered with some of the most well-known immigration by investment agents, such as NTL Immigration, Global Advisory Group and Vanuatu information center (VIC). We already have everything in place for these services and will be rolling them out over the coming months.

Thank you very much for your question and support.

Hi “ICO_Investigator” here from the telegram. Binance possibly will get issued with a warning by Japan for not identifying it’s customers according to their rules. This is an opportunity for Selfkey. However, the problem I see is that Selfkey’s decentralised wallet means their organisations don’t store the identity data of their customers and nor does Selfkey. Governments and regulatory bodies may request access to the identity documents of large numbers of clients e.g. all Japanese. How can Selfkey operate to ensure they help organisations like Binance supply this information to governments?

Hi ICO_Investigator, thank you for your question.

Organizations can indeed access the identities of their clients if they are needed. While we’d like to move to a completely document-less approach, this isn’t a short term practical reality. We believe that Binance could absolutely use SelfKey to meet their KYC requirements set by regulators.

That being said, our application is designed according to self-sovereign identity — SelfKey as an organization has a zero knowledge policy, and we do not store, nor have access to any information of identity owners. For more on this, the white paper explains with graphics, in detail (https://selfkey.org/whitepaper).

We are enabling a new identity transaction standard; we are NOT like Equifax. If you don’t store any data, you cannot lose an data! It is true that currently most regulations require relying parties to store identity data, and this is not under our control.

In the future, instead of relying parties storing identity data and documents in databases, we (and other companies and organizations) are building the bridge to a new identity transaction standard: verified claims.

Verified claims, are identity attributes that only contain a specific aspect of your identity which is verified, signed by a qualified certifier, and optionally cryptographically hashed and anchored on the blockchain. Sharing this claim, you can prove different identity attributes without requiring to share the actual ID document. In addition, no centralized database will store your ID data or document — SelfKey is enabling it in parallel with the traditional approach mentioned before, building a foundation for its regulatory acceptance.

We are confident that this will happen in the long run, and we believe it’s a much safer, more efficient method of sharing data. Some markets will move quicker than others on this — for instance, in Europe, which we are in the process of expanding to — new GDPR rules that come online soon will create a huge penalty for institutions which lose or mis-use customer data (up to 4% of global revenue!)

Banks are facing a high burden and high costs storing and protecting user data, as well as performing KYC checks on people who have been screened several times. This is highly inefficient across business or country lines — we see this as a good use case for us as well.

There is no shortage of opportunity in identity/KYC space! We see lots of areas we could work on, but we need focus which leads to adoption and traction — and will prioritize for that.

Thank you very much for your support!

What’s the marketing plan of the team to raise visibility and awareness of Selfkey? Any events in the near future that Selfkey will attend?

Hi doforza. Hope the following answers your question.

We have made strategic marketing decisions to better position our brand across this sea of blockchain projects and better explain the purpose of our project. As you probably already know, we have tried to be very active in our communications and blogs.

We are also enhancing our public relations, organically building a network with emerging and prominent players in the sector, editors, journalists and opinion leaders.

We are increasingly allocating more human and economic resources to boost our social media presence. We are also working in a schedule of events in both Asia and Europe that I will personally attend and speak. We will give more details about it shortly.

We are actively seeking promotion opportunities that are cost-effective, as we want to spend our funds wisely. We are not a short term hype project, so we have designed and are executing a long-term sustainable promotion strategy that allows us to allocate the proper resources to the product and business relationship development.

Thank you very much for your support!

The Selfkey product is highly dependent on certifiers for adoption. Does this mean that your commercial team needs to focus both on attracting KYC end users and identity certifiers to your marketplace. One cannot exist without the other I assume. I have seen your announcements of partnerships with ICO’s for their KYC. How can this work without active certifiers and adoption by the ICO buyers? I would need to have my identity certified by a notary who is registered as a certifier, if I want to participate in such ICO. As far as I know there is no list of certifiers available yet. I don’t understand how your current KYC partnerships work. Can you elaborate on this please?

Hi 1983Lucky,

We are concentrating our efforts on recruiting relying parties, identity owners and certifiers — but we do not necessarily need very many in each category to launch.

This is a huge project! We must attack it in stages, and with a prudent, well thought approach to scaling.

For instance, for logistical and quality reasons it may actually function better to have a single translation agency, rather than 100 different small translators.

Furthermore, not every KYC process requires a certifier. Therefore, we think identity owners and relying parties are more important to recruit short term.

With regards to certifiers, we have secured agreements with notaries and other qualified persons to verify identities within SelfKey. These partnerships are important for us, as they are an essential piece of the ecosystem, we want to take care of them.

There is little upside on announcing certifiers publicly — but we do have them onboard already. We prefer having a conservative approach with certain members of the network.

Thank you for your support.

Could you elaborate about SelfKey compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (www.eugdpr.org)? Some important questions are: 1) How the user controls who acess his/her personal data? 2) How the user erases his/her personal data? 3) Any user data is transfered to other parties? 4) Because of points 2 and 3 above, no user data should be stored on blockchain because it is immutable. What is the SelfKey approach on that? Thank you.

Hi MarcBer, I am happy to answer your questions.

Firstly, we love GDPR for our business model — and think the EU regulators are at the forefront of the world in developing legislation that protects the identity owner (referred to as data subject in GDPR)

Data subjects have full control at all times. And she might decide to share her identity with relying parties, by allowing access to specific identity data or documents and giving her direct informed consent to do so. The identity data is stored on her machine, therefore by removing the wallet and its associated files, identity data is removed as well. However, in the wallet there is an option to delete data without uninstalling the wallet. Her data is shared with relying parties with informed user consent. Personally identifying information is never stored in the blockchain, as even if it is encrypted and pseudonymous it would break data protection laws of many jurisdictions (not only GDPR).

What may be stored in the blockchain is what’s sometimes called trust anchor, which can be an anonymous piece of data. This is optionally given with informed consent, and can later help given identity attribute is true and that it was verified by a qualified certifier at a given time.

We are privledged to have some of the leading minds in the world as lawyers leading us through the tough thinking about this, and a significant portion of the whitepaper is dedicated to compliance with personal data privacy laws including GDPR (https://selfkey.org/whitepaper).

Thank you very much for your support and questions.

Selfkey is ERC20 token, do you still believe the Ethereum blockchain is the best choice? Would Selfkey not thrive better in the ecosystem NEO and Ontology are building? Do you see cross blockchain possibilities for Selfkey in the future.

Hi 1983Lucky,

We are confident in the potential of the Ethereum blockchain on enhancing its scalability and improving its technology.

We maintain close contact with them through our advisor Virgil Griffith and are proud to be an Ethereum project.

That being said — we are open to collaboration, and we remain open to support other blockchains in the future.

Thank you for your question and support.

What are you short term goal (say for 2018): to become a KYC provider or provide a service like opening a bank account, incorporate a company, etc?

Hi ivysukume, thank you for your question. We are already a KYC software provider, we have successfully powered KYC for token sales such as Gatcoin, Aditus, HoToKen, among many others.

We’ve already signed MOUs and announced agreements with companies for services such as to open bank accounts and to set up companies.

These services are coming soon! Bear in mind that the SelfKey Foundation itself will never provide bank account or incorporation services. These services are provided by relying parties within the marketplace. SelfKey builds and enables the technology to allow identity owners to quickly and painlessly go through KYC processes and for relying parties to screen these applications with the highest compliance standards.

Our main goal for 2018 is having the ID Wallet, including the marketplace, and multiple verticals within the marketplace fully functioning and being used by a significant amount of users.

Thank you very much for your support!

Can you confirm that Selfkey will release the alpha identity wallet in this quarter according to the roadmap? Anything that you want to share about the development progress, achievements or difficulties that the team have been facing?

Hi doforza, thank you for your question.

The alpha identity wallet is being distributed in a phased and controlled manner among our community. Although it has been tested internally and audited externally, as it is our first product release, we deem that it is wise to test it with actual users to avoid risks. This will also help us to track community feedback more accurately and to improve the product.

Once the product is tested fully, we will make it available to the public. Regarding your second question, although we are developing a complex and totally new product, without precedent, we think the development is going quite smoothly. We are very satisfied with the progress our team has made. Everyday I’m amazed and humbled by the skill and grace of our growing team, and feel honored to work alongside such amazing people.

Thank you very much, and by the way we are hiring!

Please elaborate on your involvement with the Decentralized Identity Foundation. What is your role in this organization? How do you expect to contribute? How can it benefit KYC Chain and especially SelfKey?

Great question!

We see the DIF as a collaborative approach to enable the interoperability of blockchain-based identities. We’ve been developing our own DID spec and hope to contribute this. We see it benefiting our organization by collaborating, learning and being interoperable with other companies. As I mentioned before, we will not achieve victory in this space through isolation — but rather the opposite, competitive co-operation. Although we are on different time zones and we can’t make every meeting (our team is mostly in Europe and Asia time zones) we see participation in DIF as important.

When staking SelfKeys, would their amount be determined based on the dollar price at that moment, or would it be a fixed amount no matter the price? In the latter case, wouldn’t it be necessary to have a market maker to keep the price stable enough? Or at least, not let it fall too much — otherwise, staking something less valuable might increase the risk of abuse and fraud. Just imagine Selfkey price falling so low that it becomes affordable to cheat for not-so-honest certifiers, who could for example resell the validated KYC data on the black market for a better price, or massively validate fraudulent identities for a bribe. The point being that the cheating should remain economically prohibitive with the staking approach.

Hey hayvon — good question!

We are flexible in the staking mechanisms and have several tests planned, including a fixed price and a market-driven approach.

The ‘not-so-honest’ certifier is actually something I’ve pondered — and believe I’ve come up with a solution called the ‘bonded-notary’. It functions similarly to a surety bond, which is a well proven mechanism in the traditional notary space. I’ve got a lot of internal writing on this I haven’t published yet, it still needs to bake a bit longer :-)

All this being said — one thing will always be true: KEY tokens are the critical mechanism and fuel that provides utility in our application and network — and we will take an iterative approach to test what works best.

Also — adding to this point…

At early stages, these certifiers have been selected and are long-term relationships we have built — we will absolutely design mechanisms that make it economically prohibitive to cheat the system. This is expected to be a major utility of KEY tokens.

As an additional failsafe, those who are notaries public, also have posted a bond to the government. If they misuse or sell identity data, they are in risk to lose this bond (in addition to KEY), could be prohibited to perform their job and would likely face legal issues.

To answer your question, yes, stakes will be modified according to their value to make sure that they are fulfilling their purpose.

Thank you very much for your support.

Sharing an ID is not KYC. It means nothing and does not open an account. How do you address the cross border transfer of personal data and access ? A total disregard for the law (even if you have the personal consent) brings you to a Uber and Facebook moment. Exciting times ahead for a valueless ambition.

Hi COBAKYC,

We address all of this in our whitepaper, which it seems you have not read.

Cross border transfer of information happens only with user consent and we’ve taken many steps ensure SelfKey is compliant with various government data protection ordinances and regulations.

Selfkey does not maintain a centralized database of customer information — so can’t be like Uber in this way.

SelfKey does not sell customer data to 3rd parties (we can’t — literally impossible to sell something you don’t have) — we can’t be like Facebook in this way.

Our team has had many years of experience doing KYC to a financial standard. It’s not only sharing ID but also the relevant sanctions screening, identity verification, and other elements of a KYC process that our software helps provide. Our software has long had the ability to enable the opening of accounts.

The KYC / regtech market market is estimated at B$100. Source: https://gomedici.com/a-report-on-global-regtech-a-100-billion-opportunity-market-overview-analysis-of-incumbents-and-startups/ Perhaps not valueless!

Finally, on a morality level, I personally believe digital identity is one of the most important issues of our time — and we think self sovereign identity is the best way to approach this. Hopefully through hard work, perseverance and utility solving real problems, we’ll change your attitude in the long run.

Explain the strategy for SelfKey to make a profit in revenue off this technology?

Hi imani17.

To answer your question, first I differentiate the two parts of our proposition

Consumer– Identity Wallet Service provider — KYC software

The SelfKey Identity Wallet is developed and owned and operated by a not-for-profit foundation. The identity product is free and we won’t monetize it by charging a fee to its users.

It is a tokenized ecosystem model. This is a similar model of other successful projects such as the Ethereum Foundation, whereby a token provides utility in the network — but doesn’t charge any fees per se.

That being said, there are other possible sources of revenue in the future to cover maintenance cost and further developments, for instance charge a fee to relying parties to offer their services in the marketplace, or affiliate payouts for sigups of financial services.

We have several monetization options on the table and we have already a plan considering different scenarios. But, if you look at massively successful consumer tech companies, the product is totally free for the end user. We endeavor to do the same!

The KYC software which is a B2B product to screen KYC applications is not free and it has a cost. However, it is not a requirement for participating in the SelfKey Network. Some relying parties will use our B2B KYC software but won’t be listed in the SelfKey marketplace. Some companies won’t use our B2B software but will be listed in the marketplace, and still others will use the software and will also be listed in the marketplace!

Thank you!

As far as I know, the user identity data will not be stored on the blockchain but stored on the user’s local devices like desktop or mobile so that users can control their data. But what happens if these devices are broken or lost, will the identity data be lost too? Does Selfkey wallet have any data backup mechanisms to prevent these cases?

Hi again doforza,

We have enabled enable a backup file (to be stored in a secure offline device) to restore the identity wallet data. As of now, the data can be entirely backed up and information restored.

We are also researching and working on a key recovery mechanism via a smart contract so that verified claims and DID’s can be restored. We will give more details if and when this mechanism is implemented.

Thank you very much

Ethereum has lower transactions per second. Does it influence the industrial applications of Selfkey?

Hi yourpapa77,

We don’t see identity as needing as many transactions as say for instance, micropayments. It’s a ‘lower throughput’ use case. That being said, scalability issues affect all blockchain projects.

We are confident that will be solved in a relatively short period of time! However, in the future, we may switch to other blockchain or DLT projects if this benefits SelfKey.

Thank you for your question.

Hi, I understand that the data in the blockchain is encrypted but what about my data stored on the device, is it encrypted? What are the ways to protect it in case my device is lost/stolen? Is there something like a remote wipe or similar?

Hi Patssel, We understand your concerns and are working hard on security on a daily basis. We have a dedicated person internally to think about these issues, and also regularly perform external audits from professional security firms.

One of the things that will ship in our alpha version is a password which encrypts the private key, so if you lose your wallet and have backed it up, your keystore file should still be protected. (just use a strong password!)

The ID wallet will encrypt your data so it can only be read by authorized parties. Also, consider that devices often have security mechanisms such as biometrics and passwords at the device level.

SelfKey cannot as an organization reset your password or recover your data. Self-sovereign identity means that you own and control your data, therefore you are also in charge to secure that data. You should also take steps to must make sure that your device is properly protected, backed up and that you can deactivate your device remotely in case of theft or lost — for instance, Apple iPhones have this functionality in the ‘find my iphone’ app.

Thank you for your question and support.

How easy will it be for a company/corporate entity to deploy Selfkey solution in-house? Will an entity need a license from Selfkey or sign a contract with Selfkey to do it?

Hi NantyHopes, thank you for your question.

We’ve been working hard on the company use case. The company/legal corporate may need to stake comparatively more KEY in order to use it, when compared to a retail use case.

Thank you very much for your support

Can you please elaborate more on ID Microservices: what sort of services are going to be available? When? How will it work?

Our Identity microservices may allow relying parties to build applications without having to worry about KYC!

These services (mostly accessible via SDK or API) can help easily validate identity and perform KYC:

We’ve enabled some nicknames for these microservices which we are building internally, which I’ll share below.

-The Collector : Collect KYC from anyone, in any country, any time

-The Identifier : Identify a person by comparing a selfie to a document, and performing a biometric score against the two

-The eNotary: Notarize the document with a real notary. Legally binding & valid.

-The eSigner: Sign a document with blockchain keys

-The Hash Function: Timestamp data or documents in the ethereum public chain

-The Remediator: Check against major sanctions lists to avoid onboarding terrorists, drug dealers, human traffickers or politicians,

-Company Registry: Check to see if a company exists in a government registry.

-Company Laws: Trust, Tax and legal information organized for over 80 countries

-KYC Laws: KYC laws in over 80 jurisdictions

-OCR: extracts information from the identity document to input into a form

We hope that the modular nature of our services allows other blockchain projects to use part or all of the microservices we are building. Thank you for your support!

On page 25 of the whitepaper, first it is said that work is being done on P2P messaging protocols and later it is said that data does not move through the blockchain. Can you please confirm that once the wallet will be release, all the data will be moved off-chain? Can you also elaborate what sort of encryption are you using for this?

Hi BikesBrewsBoobs, thank you for your question, and awesome username.

Confirmed!

Confirmed that data is shared off-chain and we do NOT store personal identifying information on the blockchain.

Storing sensitive identity data on-chain is not a good idea, and is in contravention of many data privacy laws. However, the blockchain is useful for distribution of keys, payment, anchoring of identity claims, storage of hashes, and many other use cases.

We have used different encryption methods, but strive to always encrypt data, both at rest and in flight. For instance, with the relying parties, we’ve implemented AES256 encryption methodology — and force SSL.

Thank you for your support, and awesome name!