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Thank you, it’s been stellar.

A little over two years ago, I co-founded an ambitious nonprofit to create infrastructure that communities could use to freely design and create their own financial services. Now, the time has come for me to move on to my next project. I will be passing the torch to my co-founder, Jed McCaleb, and I will continue as Chairperson of the Board. I have always looked at the tech industry as a powerful…

  Lining up for love

Fieldtrip

Alley-way graffiti

Getting dressed.

All that glitters isn’t gold!

At Perch in Khan Market.

An interesting perspective on the current FX crisis in Nigeria

In researching the growing tech ecosystem in Lagos, I came across the blog of Ahmad Mukoshy, CTO and Founder of GigaLayer, a domain and web hosting company based in Lagos. He had two very interesting posts about how financial services impact the startup space there. Titled “Going back to the Stone Age,” the first post talks about his own issues handling payments for his company. The second post…

Technical piece on the upgraded Stellar network

Happy 2016, everyone! I’m particularly pumped for 2016 and what this year will mean for Stellar.  There will be some really exciting projects in the coming months that show the true capabilities of an open global network. In the meantime, Jed McCaleb (cofounder of Stellar.org) penned a guest post for Bitcoin Magazine on what’s new on the upgraded Stellar network. Give it a read if you’re…

Nonprofit Artificial Intelligence Research

In the past few days, the formation of nonprofit OpenAI has shone a spotlight on ethical AI research. OpenAI will “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole,” according to their mission statement. MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute) is a research nonprofit with a similar goal. Jed McCaleb, cofounder of Stellar, recently wrote an…

Bridging the digital divide

Readwrite published a piece on technical nonprofits, and why they’re important. I was excited and honored to see Stellar listed alongside Google’s Project Loon and Facebook’s Internet.org. Here’s one of the key ideas that resonates with me: The Internet is not an end-all solution, but it can be a powerful tool towards providing empowerment and self-esteem. Today’s Internet provides both knowledge…

Jed McCaleb’s Best Tweets so Far

Jed McCaleb, the other cofounder of Stellar, is (finally) on Twitter! Here’s the type of tweets you can expect if you follow him: 1. Technical content, particularly about AI, blockchain and digital currency tech. https://twitter.com/JedMcCaleb/status/664470753702576128 2. Dog pictures. This is Wallie, and he makes an adorable office dog. https://twitter.com/JedMcCaleb/status/664584302093430784 3.…

5 Stellar Stories from Fast Forward

Fast Forward, the nonprofit-specific tech startup accelerator that guided us through Google.org’s demo day, was kind enough to feature a Stellar roundup (pardon the pun). Highlights include my recent PopTech video, MIT Tech’s review of SCP, our Fast Company article (an oldie but a goodie). Read the full post on Fast Forward’s blog, and tweet me your personal  favorite if you’re so inclined. PS:…

Launch day blog by Stripe about Stellar

I’m going through older links from the early days of Stellar and thought it would be good to collect some of my favorite posts here so my friends can keep track of my work. Since I have never been the best narrator, so I will let the writing of others speak for themselves. So to kick it off, this is a post from launch day written by Greg Brockman, CTO of Stripe, about Stellar. Seems like ages ago…

This was my very first time writing on Medium. I remember loving the interface for writing, editing, posting, sharing with other readers and thinking, “This site will do great!” Wanted to share this post, Bitcoin in America, as it does show a lot of my earlier thoughts about bitcoin and the digital currency space and how they relate to financial inclusion. In the year that has passed, I have…

This was the first interview I gave for Stellar – was quite nervous:) Interestingly, the journalist also comes from an immigrant family background so he understood a lot of the issues as, like me, he grew up seeing remittances issues in his extended family as well. I have noticed this trend as I have had to explain Stellar and financial inclusion to thousands of people since –  people that have…