Hi,

Here are the details about the decision on vesting: https://medium.com/sportyfi/sportyfi-founders-and-team-will-vest-their-tokens-6e3fcc8b59d3

SportyFi founders and team will vest their tokens

The commitment of the team to the long-term success of the SportyFi ecosystem was never in question. But to alleviate any doubts, our SPF tokens will be vested for a period of one year.

We’ve started the SportyFi project almost a year ago: first by developing the idea, then by checking its legal framework and in the last two months by working relentlessly on the Token Crowdsale, coming up on November 21. We do, however, know, that the real work does not end with a successful crowdsale — it’s when our work really begins.

There was always an agreement in the team that we will hold our tokens for an extended period of time, and when that time comes, we will re-invest them into the platform, not transfer them to an exchange and cash out. And while our verbal commitments were never doubted, we’ve decided to go one step further and put this in writing.

The founders and the team will therefore commit to holding their tokens for a period of at least a year after the successful completion of the Token Crowdsale. We believe in this project more than anyone and, come one year around, we will have set up a lively platform, that will make the life of prospective athletes easier and the sports industry more open to small investors.

No such limits will, of course, be placed on the participants in our Token Crowdsale. We’re working hard on setting up a trading ecosystem and are in talks with several prominent exchanges to list the SPF Token as soon as possible, and, of course, we’re also on track for a Q1 2018 launch of the SportyFi platform.

Marko, Simon and Tomaž, SportyFi Co-founders

Less than 5 days! Woop woop

I think there is a sport bigger than football (in percentage) for sure. For example look at how much money is in pro boxing and how many boxer are there (how much Mayweather gets after his fights) or golf etc.

Well, the article on our blog is not our research, but a summary of several research papers made by prominent institutions.

But to summarize: boxing has several high profile matches a year and that's all there is. On lower levels there's not much money. While football has several thousand pro events (i.e. matches) in Europe  alone every weekend.

Same for baseball - why is it so high? Expensive TV rights, but also... a lot of events. There are 162 games per season for each MLB team. A few high profile boxing events a year don't come close in turnover to a steady presence every couple of days, with full stadiums, billion dollar TV rights contracts and millions of players being professionals - as opposed to several 100 in pro boxing or golf.

We were actually a bit surprised that football (the European kind) is so much ahead in turnover compared to the second biggest sport (i mean, almost half of all money in sports is football). But when you go deeper, you see that it's actually surprising that i.e. golf is so high.

Its easy if your club is being funded by a very wealthy shake that has soo much money and buy the Football club. Of course you have that much money but look at what Woods or Mayweather did and how much money they earned ?  sooo..

And it doesn't matter that a few billionaires bought football clubs. What brings the most revenue is TV rights, attendance at events and marketing (merchandise, ads, etc). $200 million for Floyd is huge, compared to the rest of the boxing sport. $200 million for Neymar - peanuts, football is a $500 billion industry.

You have to looking at overall numbers... not just the one or few athletes, to get a whole picture.

But a great discussion, PatelKartel, and I hope an intro for others to pitch in and give their opinion.

Thank you for informations.

Okay maybe I went in the right sport... what about F1. A lot of money in there too ? I see you all are football fans