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by muneeb 7y ago
This is a very good (and interesting!) question. Regulation A+ is technically an exemption from registration requirements. Although in practice it works closer to a fully registered offering. Just pointing it out because the Stacks tokens a
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by muneeb 7y ago
Yep, the filing is already public and available through the SEC Edgar website. See also https://stackstoken.com/circular Our hope is that the work we've done (and the $1.8M legal and accounting fees that we've pai
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by muneeb 7y ago
Mujhay bhee Pakistani logon sey mil kar achaa lagta haay (That's Urdu in case anyone is wondering.) Appreciate your support! Crypto is generally a wild west and we're trying to help mature this industry.
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by muneeb 7y ago
I think that the industry needs to move from infrastructure phase, to developer traction phase, to user traction phase. Not in discrete steps but in general. By the 2017 "crypto mania" the infrastructure was barely there. Imagine
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by muneeb 7y ago
I didn't get into Clarity in my summary above but really into the decidable smart contract language design. The reason I didn't mention Clarity is because most programs on Blockstack are not smart contracts. We think that smar
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by muneeb 7y ago
There is no cap on the total no. of Stacks. There is a set inflation rate per year (described in the forum post). Yep, you're right, volatility reduction is certainly one of our goals. Making yearly supply linked to network growth (eve
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by muneeb 7y ago
I agree with you that the crypto industry in general over-hypes, and everything is a "revolution." The scalable infrastructure and developers tools still require a lot of work and getting "killer apps" is a whole new pha
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by muneeb 7y ago
Thanks for the link to the forum post! We conducted an economic audit and as a result of that study made certain changes to future supply of tokens. Details are in the forum post linked above. The token economics 2.0 paper is not published
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by muneeb 7y ago
Thank you! It took 10 months so not sure if qualifies as trailblazing. The legal and accounting treatment was new for everyone, so can expect it to take some time. There is no one year lock on the Reg A. The Reg D offering (which we did ear
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Launch HN: Stacks (YC S14) – The first SEC-qualified crypto token offering
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Show HN: Clarity language for predictable smart contracts(docs.blockstack.org)
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Blockstack (YC S14) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
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'Almost all' Pakistani banks hacked in security breach, says FIA cybercrime head(dawn.com)
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Introducing Afari: Social Media that puts you in control(medium.com)
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Decentralising the web: Why is it so hard to achieve?(computing.co.uk)
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by muneeb 8y ago
Typically yes. You'll need to build a lot of the components of a social network. With Blockstack most of the heavy-lifting is done for you by the underlying platform (identity, auth, storage -- all three decentralized). We've seen
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by muneeb 8y ago
Muneeb Ali, Blockstack co-founder here. I'm a technical consultant to the Silicon Valley show (season 5) along with my co-founder Ryan. So yes there is a link to the show but the project is not based on the show :-) Blockstack was in t
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$1M to build decentralized social networks(requestforsocialnetworks.com)
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The Decentralized Internet Is Here, with Some Glitches(wired.com)
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Regulators begin to tackle the craze for initial coin offerings(economist.com)
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Breaking Down Blockstack – Whitepaper Review(tokeneconomy.co)
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by muneeb 9y ago
I want to cross-link a recent Reddit discussion where people are asking similar questions and there is a good relevant discussion with answers: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/6j6ub1/new_bloc
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design(medium.com)
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The Team Making This Season’s Pied Piper Product on ‘Silicon Valley’ Real(observer.com)
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by muneeb 9y ago
We have a decentralized storage system, called Gaia, and you publish the files there. This gives you performance and reliability comparable to cloud computing. Only the domain registrations hit the blockchain and it's a one-time operat
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by muneeb 9y ago
Muneeb from Blockstack here. Yep, many people like Bob Kahn, Vint Cerf, David Clark, Tim Berners-Lee and others helped build the various components of what we today know as the internet. I'd highly recommend looking at our peer-reviewe
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by muneeb 9y ago
It's an open-source project with 4 years of research and development behind it. The architecture implemented here is actually inspired by David Clark (Chief Protocol Architect of the internet) and his new design principle, called trust
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by muneeb 9y ago
Muneeb from Blockstack here. We're not reinventing anything at/below TCP/IP. That stack works fairly well and can function in a decentralized way. We are replacing things above TCP/IP like DNS, Certificate Authorities (C
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by muneeb 9y ago
Thanks for pointing it out. Bitcoin is referenced in the whitepaper and made it clear in the blog post as well. (Don't want the readers to get confused between the virtualchain blockchain and the Bitcoin blockchain that is used underne
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by muneeb 9y ago
The title of this post should probably be updated to "Blockstack Whitepaper: A New Decentralized Internet (Part I)" to match the blog post title.

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