Stonks - accredited investors only. Virtual demo days, most deals you are co-investing with top accelerators with YC or with top-tier VC firms. They also have some funds if that's your thing rather than picking one-off startup investments. Seems appropriate for your username :). Source: about 1 year ago

That's not a meme, it's a business: https://stonks.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

We haven't seen a lot of scrappy fundraising - competitors fundraised big time using "alternative" funding mechanisms (wefunder, stonks.com, etc.) - but obviously they are fundraising. We haven't seen, yet, more agressive moves like a spinoff of the MLM platform, or the dumping of the products with no sales pipeline development, announcements to approach or partner to approach new geographic markets. Source: over 1 year ago

Hey freak mod bitches, I just saw a job ad in my LinkedIn feed for a content strategist (read: BS artist) for some outfit called Stonks, which seems like a blatant ripoff of this sub’s mascot, lingo and playful degen vibe. Is this sanctioned or do y’all not give a shit about copyright? And actually, who owns the IP for this sub’s collective creative idiocy? Like, can I just start printing WSB-themed butt plugs or... Source: over 2 years ago

In my day job[0], I talk to a lot of start-up ventures about blockchain. Only one was honest enough to say they were only using it because, at the time, it was easier to get funding. [0]: https://hyperledger.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Ethereum is not just currency at its core, its a smart contract platform which is used to implement distributed consensus, where each participating party sign the result, with their consensus algorithm. Currency is a side effect. You can just remove the entire ETH/gas dependency on the base, to use the platform as a distributed ledger between all the participants. And use another kind of consensus algo(proof of... Source: almost 3 years ago