andrewstellar

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This App Makes Scheduling Shifts Better for Wage Workers(buzzfeed.com)
4 points by andrewstellar 11y ago|0 comments
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Stripe Meetup: Customer Service and Beyond(meetup.com)
1 points by andrewstellar 11y ago|0 comments
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Valet: A Better Place to Put Your Keys(corner.squareup.com)
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Aardvark from Square: Your Logs Slurped, Your Bugs Licked(corner.squareup.com)
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by andrewstellar 11y ago
Great article on the global correspondent banking system. For anyone interested in how US domestic payment systems work (checks, ACH, Visa/Mastercard) check out Payment Systems in the US by Carol Benson. It is the bible.
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by andrewstellar 11y ago
Maginot Line attack, I like that. And yep, that's basically the point I've been trying to make in my posts. IMO Bitcoin isn't "trustless" - you need to implicitly trust those with hashing power aren't colluding
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by andrewstellar 11y ago
Why wouldn't this be plausible? Let's say one day China had enough of Bitcoin, and used their essentially limitless resources to gain enough hashing power at will, to block transactions or rewrite them or what have you. Entirely p
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by andrewstellar 11y ago
Here's an overview that attempts to explain it in a less CS/math way and a more general and approachable way: https://medium.com/a-stellar-journey/on-worldwide-consensus-...
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by andrewstellar 11y ago
Let's say there's 3 big "tier 1" operators, which everyone trusts. This means that if 2/3 colluded to defraud the system, they could. Then, a smaller non-profit or more "trustworthy" node comes online and
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by andrewstellar 12y ago
Great, thank you!
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by andrewstellar 12y ago
I loved this article. It was very clear: the reasoning the high level step by steps were very helpful. +1 suggestions to follow up in 3/6/12 months. Also, I'd love to see a more detailed explanation, chef scripts, etc.
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Greg from Stripe and Stellar at Future of Money(youtube.com)
3 points by andrewstellar 12y ago|0 comments
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by andrewstellar 12y ago
Thanks! Please contact hello@stellar or one of the admins directly on freenode channel #stellar-dev.
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by andrewstellar 12y ago
Hi Peter, we are aware of this issue affecting a minority of users and are actively working to provide a fix. If you signed up with your email, we will also contact you soon with instructions on how to retrieve your account. Thank you for y
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by andrewstellar 12y ago
We recommend you only trust one gateway per currency for that exact reason. You can only paid in currency issued from accounts you trust. Lets say your friend holds Euro credits from a gateway in London, and you live in San Francisco and th
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by andrewstellar 12y ago
> Another solution would be to allow gateways to declare that their coins are only redeemable by a limited set of accounts. Yep, that's baked into the protocol :) https://www.stellar.org/api/#api-accountset - r
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by andrewstellar 12y ago
Hi karl, Andrew from Stellar here. We're aware of the problem that's causing some users not to receive their 5000 Stellar reward. We're working on a fix - you'll have your Stellars in your wallet soon :)
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by andrewstellar 12y ago
Hello, we check various properties of your Facebook account to determine that this was not a spam account created simply to exploit the giveaway. This is our first day out, and we apologize that legitimate users like yourself aren't ab
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by andrewstellar 12y ago
Hello, Andrew from Stellar here. We're using Facebook as our identity verification mechanism for our giveaway, and we've added additional spam prevention checks to ensure lots of Facebook accounts aren't created just to claim