anders94

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   by anders94 8y ago

   Circle works with a wide variety of regulatory agencies around the world. I'm not aware of anything the SEC has said publicly about USDC. We work with a number of banking partners around the world but generally don't publicize thi
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   by anders94 8y ago

   Anders Brownworth from Circle here - I just wanted to point out that https://etherscan.io/address/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb... is the proxy contract. (an address that won't change but who's source code
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   by anders94 8y ago

   We considered a wide range of platforms before making a decision. At this point, however, Ethereum is really the only viable option particularly from a security and wallet support perspective. That said, we have been developing the technolo
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   by anders94 8y ago

   It isn't limited like that. As you can imagine, Circle maintains fairly sophisticated minting operations able to execute around the clock. All that is necessary for coins to be minted is for Circle to broadcast a properly signed transa
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   by anders94 8y ago

   Circle holds one dollar for every dollar minted, we do not run a fractional reserve. The CENTRE Consortium holds minters (of which Circle is one) to strict auditing requirements. While this information is regularly published, you can see al
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   by anders94 8y ago

   Hi, I'm Anders Brownworth, Chief Evangelist at Circle. I'm happy to answer any questions on USD Coin, CENTRE or Circle. We're also hiring! See https://circle.careers/
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   by anders94 10y ago

   Thanks for the comment - I am still with Circle, and indeed we still use the bitcoin blockchain behind the scenes. We're also working on a smart contract platform called Spark. More to come on that in a bit.
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   by anders94 14y ago

   Thanks, much appreciated. So it is essentially a node.js VM with hooks that let you alter calls that already exist inside the big carrier networks. My humble suggestion would be to get rid of all the marketing-speak on your website and lead
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   by anders94 14y ago

   I'm still a little lost on exactly what this is. The only two things I found under the technology link were node.js and SmartOS. Do you spin up SmartOS/node instances and somehow hook SIP to them? Can you give us a technical explanation?