IRVINE, Calif., April 04, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Future City Holding, Inc. (OTCQB:FTYC) (the “Company”), is pleased to announce that the initial issuance of GX-Coins and wallet funding begins on April 4, 2016 for Great Coin, Inc. (“Great Coin”). Great Coin is the licensor of blockchain based creation and trading technology for crypto currencies, such as GX Coin. GX Coin is wholly-owned by the officers and directors of the Company. Beginning April 4th, account holders of Great Coin can request funding for their accounts. Great Coin will credit the wallets for such account holders after their funding requests are processed. Once funded, the account holders’ purchasing power will enable them to acquire and trade GX-Coins on their own timeline. Account holders will begin to see the coins and dollar balances reflected in their accounts starting April 4th. Members of GX-Life Global, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, have already started converting their membership points into GX-Coins from March 31st, and such members can expect the GX-Coins to be deposited in their wallets by April 12th. The trading of GX-Coins is expected to commence late-April 2016.
Ning Liu, CEO and President of the Company stated, “We are all very excited about the imminent launch of the Great Coin trading platform and commencement of GX-Coin trading. With the introduction of GX-Coin as an additional incentive for our marketing program, we believe we are creating a unique compensation structure for our members, focusing upon the convergence of consumer product marketing, crypto-currency and online trading platforms. We believe that this will position our company to grow our sales of products, provide expanding support and exposure to our members and their marketing efforts, and give us a competitive advantage in reaching industry sales leaders.”
About Global Future City Holding Inc.
Global Future City Holding Inc. is a holding company focused on implementing an EB-5 immigrant investor program for foreign investors who are interested in acquiring lawful permanent residence in the United States, and the marketing and deployment of its loyalty-based membership program. The Company plans to focus its initial efforts on acquiring qualified investment projects that are aligned with its EB-5 Regional Center and launching the digital currency-based membership program. Additional information on the Company may be viewed at http://www.gf.city.
About GX-Life Global, Inc.
GX-Life Global is in the process of developing a robust, scalable platform to support its membership program throughout the world. GX-Life Global is supported by “GX-Coins” which is a digital currency that functions as a store of value and a medium of exchange. GX-Life Global plans to deploy the GX-Coins it acquires from Great Coin by distributing them to members of their membership program community as loyalty points for the members’ participation in the membership program. Members of GX-Life Global will be able to redeem their status points, reward points, and status reward points for GX-Coin at 100% of their points’ dollar value. Additionally, users of GX-Coin will be able to use their GX-Coins to purchase products offered by GX-Life Global.
About Great Coin, Inc.
Great Coin, Inc., a Nevada corporation, is a technology company in the process of developing “Great Coin” or “GX-Coin” which is a digital currency that functions as a store of value and a medium of exchange. Great Coin intends for the GX-Coins to be freely transferable on an online trading platform, and the price of a GX-Coin once on the trading platform will be determined by market forces through trading activity. As a digital currency, GX-Coin’s ownership and transfer will be recorded on an encrypted, secured distributed ledger system using technology similar to the distributed ledger technology used for trading digital currencies.
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