Cloud Currencies do not depend on encryption but on redundancy along with a patent pending distributed authenticity protocol. CloudCoin® is the first and only of its kind yet.

Yes, they are easier to buy, sell and trade. They cannot be mined, counterfeited or double spent. They are more private, more secure and more fun.

The RAIDA was created in October 2016 and passed all checks on March 15th 2017. The RAIDA has never gone down and the most RAIDA that have ever been offline at the same time is four.

The secret to CloudCoins are the CloudCoins themselves. The 25 authentication clouds are located in 22 different countries and managed by independent operators. Governments would have to shut down all 25 clouds in order to stop CloudCoins from authenticating. If one RAIDA cloud is brought down, others pop to replace it. As time goes by and the value of CloudCoin grows, the number of servers will grow to 6,000.

The Cloud Currency Consortium tries to improve the value of CloudCoins. The RAIDA (Highly Independent Dispersed RAIDed Authentication) cloud is not owned or controlled by anyone or any entity. It is in the best interest of all these people that their part of the RAIDA cloud is independent and available.

In order to hack CloudCoin the hackers would need to take control of a majority of the RAIDA servers. It is highly unlikely that this would happen because RAIDA servers under attack could simply be shut down and repaired if damaged.

We are developing a classified system to allow for searchable public registry of those who will accept CloudCoins to help you spend them.

We will have a public registry of sites that sell CloudCoins in exchange for currency. You can expect to be able to purchase them with what ever currency you have.

You can sell you CloudCoins online assuming you have a PayPal account or other bank. You may also accept electronic checks. You may also request cash, check or coin be mailed to you and send CloudCoin upon receipt. CloudCoin was designed to allow for easy escrow service so this is another option for riskier purchases. Each CloudCoin has a Escrow password that you can use to identify yourself as the owner. This is necessary for an escrow account but is not necessary for regular transactions.

You will ask your customer to send you their CloudCoins in the amount you require. You will receive these in the form of a JPEG via email, Skype, Facebook, USB drive, etc. You will go to an authentication server webpage. You will load the JPEG into your browser. The webpage will check the currency for authenticity. If it is good send the product. If it is counterfeit tell the customer that the CloudCoin is no good.

There will be hundreds of websites you can go to. You can load your JPEGs into your browser and they can be checked for authenticity. You can also download Apps for you PC, MAC and phone that does this.

Find someone who takes CloudCoin. Check that your CloudCoin is authentic by going to a website and authenticating. Then send the CloudCoin to the merchant. Wait for them to take ownership. If they say they can't take ownership then immediately re-authenticate your CloudCoins. If it fails then they have taken ownership and are lying. Otherwise expect them to give you the merchandise.