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Stellar: 0 to 1M signups in 37 days(medium.com)
9 points by joyce 12y ago|2 comments
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by joyce 12y ago
I may never need postmates again.
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by joyce 12y ago
Joyce from Stellar here. Prof. David Mazieres is creating a new provably-correct version of the consensus system and will be publishing a white paper that will be in line with his normal, rigorous academic standards. In addition, Graydon Ho
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by joyce 12y ago
He will be on the Core team which focuses on stellard. We will be publishing a roadmap shortly. Thanks!
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Graydon Hoare joins Stellar.org(stellar.org)
18 points by joyce 12y ago|2 comments
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What Does It Really Mean to Be (an Open Source) Non-Profit?(john.onolan.org)
2 points by joyce 12y ago|0 comments
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by joyce 12y ago
Joyce from Stellar here. We have not changed any content from our launch post since it was published for launch. Please feel free to read over our post here. Also adding Stripe's if anyone missed both announcements a month ago. (Side
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by joyce 12y ago
Use one of the exchanges like justcoin.com or https://bx.in.th/BTC/STR/
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by joyce 12y ago
I am the executive director of Stellar. Wanted to share my reply to the MTurk stuff: http://forum.stellar.org/t/stellar-updates/1026
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by joyce 12y ago
Hi Owen - I'll go help you out. Let me know if you have any questions. joyce@stellar
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by joyce 12y ago
Great - shoot me an email (joyce@stellar) and happy to help!
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by joyce 12y ago
Hi from Stellar. I know FB isn't the ideal login method. But our goals were to provide easy access to people and to have a method to detect spam accounts. Today is our first day out. We will be releasing other ways to claim soon so I h
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by joyce 12y ago
I work at Stellar. re: the distribution method: mining obviously has many benefits, but it's still limited to people who are highly technical and/or who have money to spend. That eliminates most people in the world. We wanted to p
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by joyce 12y ago
Ha! Thanks for sticking with it and we will keep working on smoothing things out.
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by joyce 12y ago
Great question - here are the two key items: - Stellar is a nonprofit. No one owns it. The board and advisors represent a diverse group of people in tech, finance, nonprofit and academia to encourage cross-pollination of ideas. The board is
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by joyce 12y ago
Sorry, our web client is currently down under the load. We're on it.
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by joyce 12y ago
We want to give them away as fairly and to as many people as possible. Stellar doesn't require mining and so there's no need to give them away to the people with the most CPU cycles. Anyone can participate regardless of technical
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by joyce 12y ago
I work at Stellar. We wanted a method by which we could fund people once (to prevent someone from spinning up a lot of fake accounts to claim) hence the decision to move forward with Facebook. I know it isn't perfect, but we are doing
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by joyce 12y ago
Hi, I work at Stellar. The FB auth is the first of several methods to receive stellars so we will add more methods soon. Also, mining obviously has many benefits, but it's still limited to people who are highly technical and/or wh
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by joyce 12y ago
I am one of the folks working at Stellar. Yes, FB isn't a login method that will work for everyone. Today is just day 1; we plan on adding more methods soon. Also, anyone can create an account/wallet without even registering your
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by joyce 12y ago
I am one of the folks working at Stellar. Yes, FB isn't a login method that will work for everyone. But today is our first day saying hello to the world; we do plan on adding more methods soon. Thanks.
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Original Mt. Gox Founder Clears Name, Says He Never Met Mark Karpeles in Person(newsbtc.com)
6 points by joyce 12y ago|0 comments
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by joyce 12y ago
I worked at The Innocence Project for 2 years. When I was working there, our exoneration rate for cases that made it to DNA testing was 50%. Imagine that - 50%. This kind of failure rate is unacceptable. This is a compounded by the fact th
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Dissecting Delight – Stripe Checkout(mattduvall.com)
1 points by joyce 12y ago|0 comments
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SimpleHoney acquired to make digital currencies like Bitcoin go mainstream(blog.simplehoney.com)
20 points by joyce 13y ago|3 comments
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by joyce 14y ago
Honolulu is a big city which has a constant flow of Silicon Valley folks so not as isolating as where you were.
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by joyce 14y ago
We didn't and still don't have "tons of VC cash" to burn - only our own savings accounts at that time, so no 5-star hotels or high class restaurants for us. Also, I would not say we had a holiday mood at all during our time there. We starte
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How To Build A Startup From A Beach(blog.simplehoney.com)
173 points by joyce 14y ago|77 comments
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by joyce 14y ago
These are all good tips to follow for any new team trying to get to MVP, regardless of if you are in a startup weekend, and test out the idea and the team.
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by joyce 14y ago
Not giving legal advice but here are my two-cents: 1) Possible tax savings: Signing bonuses are taxed as income. If you held your stock long enough, you may qualify for long-term capital gains tax treatment. 2) Silicon Valley is a repeat p

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