Stellar and Stripe Speak at The Future of Money and Technology Summit 2014
SAN FRANCISCO, California — December 2, Stellar Executive Director Joyce Kim, Stripe CTO Greg Brockman, and Stellar Lead Developer Jed McCaleb sat on a panel and gave an overview of the Stellar project to the audience at The Future of Money and Technology Summit, a yearly fintech conference that meets to discuss the evolution of money. The panel was called “Stellar: Building a Common Financial Platform”, and the entire session was streamed live and published on YouTube courtesy of Bitcoin Magazine. “The goal of the [Stellar] platform is to be a ubiquitous layer so Stripe, Western Union, or....
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Backed by mainstream payments technology startup Stripe, decentralized payment network Stellar provides a vision for how digital currency could solve real problems for people with restricted financial access. It may be no wonder then that at San Francisco's Future of Money Summit in early December, the Stellar panel was among the most popular. The digital currency community is increasingly focused on the technology's use in payments, and Stellar aims to provide a decentralized payment system that improves on bitcoin and its closest competitor, Ripple. However, since launching in July after....
San Francisco, California — On December 2, Stellar Executive Director Joyce Kim sat on a Stellar panel and gave an overview of the Stellar project to the audience at The Future of Money and Technology Summit, a yearly fintech conference that meets to discuss the evolution of money. The panel was called “Stellar: Building a Common Financial Platform”, and also included Stripe CTO Greg Brockman and Ripple Founder Jed McCaleb. The entire panel session was streamed live courtesy of Bitcoin Magazine, and Joyce Kim’s overview on Stellar is transcribed below. “Stellar is a financial protocol that....
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The Future of Money & Technology Summit on December 2, 2014 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco will bring together the best and brightest thinkers around money, including: visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors, solution providers, service providers, and organizations who work with them at the convergence of cash and commerce. They meet to discuss the evolving money ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to deal-making environment. Live videos will be embedded below the schedule prior to each event and simultaneously available on the Bitcoin....
The fifth annual Future of Money & Technology Summit brought together both bitcoin believers and traditional financial industry experts at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco on Monday. Organizer Brian Zisk said more than 500 people in total came to the event to learn more about how innovation, both within the bitcoin ecosystem and beyond, is changing the finance industry. While primarily focused on traditional financial technology, the summit featured a dedicated digital currency track that saw discussion on issues as diverse as bitcoin mining centralization and sidechains - a system for....
This project is an enigma. On the one hand, Stellar is not for profit, it doesn’t have owners or shareholders, and strives to be somewhat decentralized. On the other, Stellar is a compliance-focused protocol, and its directors often meet with shadowy organizations like the World Economic Forum. According to their website, the protocol seeks “to unlock the world’s economic potential by making money more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered.” Fine, but, at what cost? Related Reading | Stellar To Power VISA’s New Partnership, XLM Begins Breakout According to the legend,....