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		polymathist on July 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Stellar: a decentralized protocol for ... It seems that this is the "secret bitcoin project" that Jed McCaleb (formerly of Ripple) has been working on. Very interesting.

danneu on July 31, 2014 [–]

It's his next pump and dump.

https://xrptalk.org/topic/2629-selling-my-xrp/

hackerweb on July 31, 2014 | | [–]

Long pump, though. The founders can't sell for 5 years.

https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/#Stellar_distribution

dublinben on July 31, 2014 | | [–]

Wow. If he was able to cash out even half of that amount, he walked away with tens of millions of dollars.

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