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Welcoming Micah Alcorn — The Road from Oklahoma to Blockchain
https://medium.com/originprotocol/welcoming-micah-alcorn-the-road-from-oklahoma-to-blockchain-7e36713446df

How did a commercial real estate broker in Norman, Oklahoma become an integral part of a cutting-edge blockchain team? In short, it’s about passion, skill, and community. Today we are happy to announce that Micah Alcorn is the newest member of Origin Protocol.

As an open source project, Origin Protocol has always taken a unique approach of hiring from within our community. Instead of the traditional approach of candidates submitted a resume, taking a coding test, and then an hour of answering questions in a conference room, we get to interact on real issues in real time. Origin being an open source software project means people “apply” to work on Origin by joining our Discord, checking out or Github, and working on open issues and submitting pull requests. This allows for a diverse group of people all over the world (many of whom may not have the typical software engineering resume) to start working with Origin. This diversity of viewpoints and contribution is incredibly important to us and we are engineering our protocols and platform to be open and permission-less just like our engineering community is.

Micah was one of our very first open source contributors, making his first pull request in January, fixing a particularly nasty CSS issue. From there his contributions just got better and more technical. Soon he moved on to web animations, React, and Javascript. He also learned new libraries with astonishing speed, including Flask, PyBabel Localization, and Web3.

We on the engineering team we were asking, “Who is this Micah guy that is contributing such great code, and such a joy to work with?”

The story begins years ago with Micah looking to improve his real estate firm’s marketing efforts. He built a small website. He amazed his customers with a Google-Earth fly-in. He inadvertently learned Javascript as he added customizations. He started attending a Ruby on Rails Meetup. And before you knew it, he was doing more coding than real estate!

An entrepreneur at heart, it wasn’t long before he teamed up with a cofounder and built WellAttended, a box-office management platform for independent theaters and arts organizations. This led him in 2014 to attend Boulder Startup Week where he met Andrew Hyde. Since then, Micah has attended Startup Week every year.

So when Andrew joined Origin Protocol in December, Micah took notice and began to follow our progress on Github. Soon he was making his first pull requests, and the journey began.

Micah has become an indispensable part of the Origin team and we are happy to make this official. Those of you who have attended our weekly open engineering calls will recognize Micah as the guy who keeps us all in order and has his finger on the pulse of our many repos, pull requests, and issues. He’s also an integral part of the product team, working out UI/UX issues with our cofounder Matt Liu and our designer Aure Gimon.

If you are also passionate about what we are building at Origin and want to work alongside amazing coworkers like Micah Alcorn, Andrew Hyde, Coleman Maher, Jon Hearty, Josh Fraser, Stan James, and Yu Pan, please reach out. We’re look forward to your first pull request!

We are very excited to announce that Cuong Do is joining the Origin team. Cuong was the head of Dropbox Engineering in NYC and was part of the founding engineering team of YouTube. He also spent time early on at Inktomi and PayPal.

Cuong is truly a startup legend and has deep expertise in distributed systems and scaling. He had a large responsibility in keeping YouTube's site alive during the early days when it scaled at an incredible pace. In addition to that, he was most recently an engineering manager at Cockroach Labs, an open source distributed database company.

We are thrilled to have him onboard and he joins his former colleague and legend, Yu Pan, who was a founder of PayPal and YouTube's first hire. Origin is incredibly lucky to have such an all star team of engineering talent!

Good idea guys, I like what you're talking about, lowering commissions is a very hot topic right now, and if you really reduce it by 20-30%%, that's great

First ERC725 Profile in a Dapp from originprotocol!

https://medium.com/originprotocol/tech-update-dapp-gets-erc-725-identity-transaction-steps-escrow-reviews-298a7c91b7a5

Just wanted to check in with some updates!

• Paypal founder joins the Origin team!
• Our successful strategic round closed!
• Partnership with Spin Scooters!
• Consensus/Blockchain Week recap!
• Origin develops first working implementation of ERC 725
• How to use our Demo DApp!

We will be announcing some more major hiring and development news soon.

We are working extremely hard and hitting important milestones on our product roadmap.

Hi,

Idea looks good. But in practicality, how do you plan to go against aggregators like Airbnb, Uber, etc. A great marketing team and sales team is definitely required IMO.

Hellow,

Do you have any?
A video
I will like to create a explain in the project in the video

Thank you!

We give developers and businesses the opportunity to create decentralized markets on the blockbuster.

The timeline of releasing the tokens has not been publicly announced, and it could be a while before tokens are distributed and tradable. This makes the project not suitable for a quick turnaround.

I like the idea of the project and believe it has a good chance to succeed because of the strong team that leads it. With over 30 projects already lining up to use Origin Protocol, the tokens is expected to have strong usage once those dApps are launched.

I am glad that the team actively participates in conferences. But I wonder what's the result of this participation? The team was able to find new partners?
And one more question-the team plans to participate in Consensus?

I have been following your project for a long time now and as someone who travels a lot I believe it has enormous potential. I can see myself using services build on your protocol. Congrats on an amazing project.

I have Origin Protocol on my watch list to try to catch its presale whenever that will be announced. It is not final yet this is mentioned on website but no problem everyone can wait for awesome project to come up with full preparation. It is going to be remarkable project of the year in my opinion.

Hi. What's the tokens lock-up period for presale? thnx

EDCON Recap from Origin Protocol
The Origin team recently returned from Toronto and the Community Ethereum Development Conference (EDCON). The theme of the conference was “Never Forget Why You Started” and it was a refreshing callback to the motivation for why Ethereum was created. So often, conferences can be solely about making deals or marketing. We had high expectations for for EDCON, and they were surpassed in almost every way. We are more excited than ever to be apart of the Ethereum developer community and Dapp ecosystem. There were many fun moments as well and the Origin team had a blast.
https://medium.com/originprotocol/edcon-recap-from-origin-protocol-aaa146cd2211

I see the potential in the Origin project, because in my opinion if the platform is developed by an experienced team,the project should be successful,and as I see this team is really high-level, who already have successfully completed startups.

Hi, everybody. I'm interested in the following question - does Origin Protocol have a working product? I do not understand what are the advantages of using the Origin Protocol. I see there's a lot of hype surrounding the project. But I don't understand why. Who the can to answer me these questions? I apologize for the trouble and thank you!

Glad i saw that the whitelist was opened again on friday. I hope i got in. Great project!

I have read this project and I can say with full confidence that they will succeed to get the maximum amount of money. I also will invest some small amount of money to become part of their profit sharing scheme through this investment.

Hey guy, Big news. Do you know Yu Pan? Yeah, He is founding engineer at Paypal and then he is one of the first employee at YouTube. And now He joined Origin as a leading research and development engineer. Read this acrtical to know more :
https://medium.com/originprotocol/welcoming-yu-pan-to-the-origin-team-fcce3e3a2166