[ANN]Pillar - The Personal Data Locker

[Apostle4444]

Update from an email I received.

Design Competition Winners
The contest had 19 submissions, and it really fulfilled the goal of people coming together, working on their designs, collaborating, thinking, and contributing to our group exploration of wallet design space. My goal in launching the contest was not to find a perfect design candidate and then “go forward” with it to become the Pillar wallet interface. My goal was to bring out talent and collaboration. Even though people may have felt like they were competing, I hope they will realize now that we’re all one big family and can draw on many inspirations, talents, and skills to create the ultimate Pillar user experience. I plan to take it forward with a design workshop in the next month or two.

There were many good efforts. I want to express my appreciation to all who participated. I hope they found the exercise fulfilling in itself. A few stood out. They deserve our community recognition. I have singled out seven entries to present to the community. One is a special “honorable mention” winner because it was a good new idea. Three were worthy of mention as a group and were rewarded with tokens. And there were a “top three” that earned prize money. No single design got the 50 ether “first place” award, but as you’ll see, the top three were well executed, had testing built in, and there was good thinking about scalability. Moreover, I felt they explored their corner of design space well. Please come watch the 20-minute video I made disclosing the winners.

Watch the Design Contest Announcement Video below:
http://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=e832e2856b&e=e6ec2eae28

[Apostle4444]

...another email update from David Siegel and The Pillar Team

Wallet Workshop
Thanks again to all the people who participated in the design contest. Some people asked me to review their designs, and I want to tell you about a design event we’re planning in New York for the end of this month. We’ll have a call for designers today, October 3rd, at 10pm UK time, which is 5pm on the East coast in the US and 2pm on the West Coast. I will lead a general discussion about a design camp and work on possible dates, and after that I’ll be happy to review people’s contest entries and discuss them for 5-10 minutes each. Please help us move the wallet design forward!


Add this Call to My Calendar
http://pillarproject.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=462a81352c&e=e6ec2eae28


Looking for JavaScript Ninjas!
We are looking for three junior full-time JavaScript people for our office in London. Everything from back-end to front end and HTML/CSS. We have a strong preference for UK residents or those who are legally allowed to work in the UK immediately. We would be happy to talk with senior developers as well. Come join us in London - it starts when you join our online community and introduce yourself ...


Join our Online Community and Say "Hi!"
http://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=4035eb5e00&e=e6ec2eae28


Hiring Season
Pillar does not subscribe to the typical hiring process, that has proven to be flawed time after time. Instead, we ask people who are passionate about our vision to volunteer and collaborate with our team.


Watch Why Pillaristas Volunteer!
http://pillarproject.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=65f5cec1fe&e=e6ec2eae28


We want volunteers to join our community on their own volition. We seek committed individuals that can meaningfully contribute to our project and work well with our team. We have job openings in central services, product-development, and design. And if there is a mutual fit, and benefit, then you might be invited to join the team.


Learn About Our Open Positions
http://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=31fdb3c5ed&e=e6ec2eae28

[silvestar]

The project is promising the future. Projects managed by Sylon are usually good. It is a good reference. The team also gives confidence, all of them entrepreneurial men who are experienced in their field. When Ico sales start, I will also take some and I will keep it for a while. I hope the future will make us laugh.

[techjcv]

see .. the price for PLR token is getting destroyed..
i was not lucky, bought a high price on ICO and had to sell it cheaply because the price is no progress
i have removed it from my portfolio because it does not profit by investing in this token.

[Apostle4444]

see .. the price for PLR token is getting destroyed..
i was not lucky, bought a high price on ICO and had to sell it cheaply because the price is no progress
i have removed it from my portfolio because it does not profit by investing in this token.

Any coin/token is a gamble but this coin is a mid to long term Investment due to the goals of the project so your loss is someone else's gain this early in the life of the token.

[zckeles]

ico start price $ 0.042 now 0.061565

[XL2000]

 your loss is someone else's gain this early in the life of the token.

I totally agree, I love to get PLR at the current rate, its a bargain!

[Apostle4444]

another Pillar Update...

Wallet Workshop
Since Vitor arrived in London, we have been accomplishing more and more in our weekly sprints. We have built a demo wallet and it works! Of course, it has very limited functionality. Right now Vitor is wrapping up the effort to add new wallet views, a transaction history, and ETH transferability. In the coming days, we will be adding additional functionality. I am excited to discuss all we have accomplished, and what’s left to accomplish in advance of the release of Pillar Wallet 1.0.


Watch our Wallet Update
http://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=4dda93b0e3&e=e6ec2eae28

Our Working Groups
We are setting up working groups to help us move the Pillar project forward. If you have particular expertise in one of these areas, we would like to ask for your help. We’re willing to pay certain experts on retainer to help us connect to the developments and events in their world. Each of these groups has a channel in our online community.
•   GDPR - we are actively looking for experts on GDPR, not only in Europe but also in North America.
•   Identity - we have engaged Kaliya Hamlin (USA) and Alan Sherriff (UK) to help us be prepared with digital identity issues. Please come learn from and work with them in the identity channel.
•   Data security - we’re looking for security experts. Are you interested in security? If so, come join our working group. We have a call coming up on October 12th.
•   Exchange - I’d like to ask people interested in exchanges to read this excellent summary of decentralized exchange protocols by Fred Ehrsam. At Pillar, we want to help create a worldwide order book and some kind of smart matching capability, probably using the Ox protocol. Josh Fairhead will be heading up this grou.
•   Messaging - we believe our first wallet will have a strong social aspect (this hasn’t been decided for sure, so consider it a rumor). We want to put together a messaging group to plan a messaging service. This will be a for-profit service, and we are happy to engage people who want to start this on the side. This group needs a leader or leaders.
•   Chat bots - I expect that within 18 months our wallet will have an integrated chat bot. Michael Shea will head up this research and discussion group.
•   Nigeria working group - we are planning our first big developer conference in Lagos, Nigeria, for next spring. We want to interact with and support the local community in “leaping forward” using blockchain technology and, we hope, the Pillar wallet. We want to engage with academics, entrepreneurs, business, and government people to create a lasting, meaningful, and productive relationship with the people of Nigeria (and Cameroun). Can you help?


Come to the London Meetups!
We have two meetups coming soon:
First, we have a high-energy meetup with the N.O.M.A.N. group in London, on October 10th, after work. Come meet the Pillaristas and learn about Etch, their token-based system for managing payroll.


Join us on October 10th!
http://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=51137d56cd&e=e6ec2eae28

Second, we are meeting with anyone interested in planning our Nigeria unconference and hackathon next spring. This is a planning meeting in London, to reach out to those who can help us work with people in academia, start-ups, the business community, and government to bring new levels of blockchain collaboration and innovation. Please join us on Wednesday, October 11th, from 5:30pm at All Bar One in Shoreditch! Sign up and tell your friends!

More soon,
David Siegel and The Pillar Team
info@pillarproject.io

[Apostle4444]

Another update from the Pillar team. (Communication is key and we are seeing plenty of it)

Join The Conversation on Twitter
If you’re on Twitter, don’t forget to follow us:
I’m @pullnews.
The Pillar project is @pillarwallet.
If you are in our twitter community, you might have seen this tweet last week:

                Replying to @PillarWallet @ThinkRiseLDN
                I heard Vitor (Steve Jobs of Crypto)
                left IBM and is now full time, true?
                11:12am . 3 Oct 2017 . Twitter for IPad


Yes, Vitor is winding down his time at IBM and joining us full time. Is Vitor the "Steve Jobs of Crypto"? He's certainly brilliant, and luckily, much less volatile and much easier to work with!

Needless to say, Twitter is a rich source of both rumors and rich conversations. We do our best to clarify the rumors and, engage in generative conversations and respond to our followers. We encourage you to join us on twitter for some fresh content and daily updates. We are also on Facebook (much to some members of our team's chagrin).


Staff Highlight
Vitor is our CTO and one of the geniuses on our development team. Vitor was bored at work and looking for something challenging to sink his teeth into. He had connected with me via LinkedIn a long time ago, and in 2016 Vitor accepted my invitation to the 20|30 Slack channel. He had already volunteered to help the EtheRisc team with their white paper, which I had read and admired. Vitor agreed to do some work on the CryptX index. After a few months of heavy lifting as a volunteer, and as Pillar got closer to its ICO, I asked Vitor to become a 2030 founder and lead Pillar's development efforts.

Vitor is a senior software developer with 10 years of experience in a wide variety of domains. He loves this profession and a while back became fascinated with Blockchain. Vitor, after being turned away by Google and Facebook deep into the interviewing process (a BIG loss for them!), has been a contractor for IBM, and will be wrapping up his contract with them in the coming weeks.
Vitor lives in Rio, Brazil, and after some “convincing,” he has agreed to relocate to London. This is HUGE for us, because as you know I believe in the concept of decentralization but I also believe strongly that people developing new products do best to work in the same room together. Our entire team is looking forward to working side-by-side with Vitor in our new office.
Most of us will arrive in the office by the end of this year, ending the remote collaboration that began back in January. We accomplished so much remotely and made many mistakes too. Working in the same space is going to greatly increase our efficiency. We look forward to helping all our new London arrivals like Vitor and their families get settled.


Next In Tech
Last week I spoke at the "Next in Tech" conference in Wandsworth. It was a great event and an incredible opportunity to connect with other innovators in the blockchain community.


Watch My Presentation about Blockchain
http://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=668a69b252&e=e6ec2eae28

More soon,
David Siegel and The Pillar Team
info@pillarproject.io

[Apostle4444]

New communication from the project:

Today I have two big announcements, be sure to see both of them …


The ICO Show
We are all about community here at the Pillar project. One way we want to give back is to help people plan and execute better ICOs. So I’ve decided to launch The ICO Show, to help people figure out their ICO strategy and to give planned ICOs a chance to answer the hard questions. If you’re thinking about launching an ICO, I’d love to discuss that with you. And if you have an interesting ICO coming up, please tell us about it. We already have a great group of volunteers (Ash, Will, Andy, Arick, Tony - anyone else want to join us?) and we’re setting up an exciting lineup of shows starting this Tuesday, October 17th.

THE ICO SHOW
With David Siegel
Live every Tuesday
5-6pm UK Time
http://theicoshow.net

The show will get better and better each week. Let us know how we’re doing. To find the YouTube URL, please come to ...

The ICO Show Temporary Site
https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=ac370984cf&e=e6ec2eae28

What About an Exchange?
Trust me, I’m as eager to see the Pillar tokens listed on an exchange as you are. We are “in process” with the large exchanges. They are taking their time onboarding new tokens, and they are being very picky about which tokens they take. I can’t promise anything yet, but I will tell you about an exchange listing as soon as we have it.


The Pillar Wallet Road Map
Today we announce our Pillar Wallet Road Map. It’s not set in stone, but it will tell you what we’re working on and why. The article lists four wallets. Our goal is to release the first two in the next six months and the other two as soon as they are ready. There’s plenty of information here. Please spend ten minutes reading our ...


Pillar Wallet Road Map on Medium.com
https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=6f19e7a971&e=e6ec2eae28

Wallet Developer Meeting
There are a lot of new members in our online community, and they are bringing a wealth of energy and skills. Development skills in particular. We are thrilled about this influx of talent and want to harness the energy and support. So, on Monday at 3pm UTC, Vitor and Partha will be hosting an open meeting for potential new developers. In this meeting we will identify ways for volunteers to help develop the wallet and begin their journey, if interested, towards getting hired. Of course, any back-end and front-end coders interested in working with us should see our jobs page https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=568609e520&e=e6ec2eae28, but this is a chance to interact with two of our stars.


Add This Call To My Calendar
https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=45c644e9a3&e=e6ec2eae28

Wallet Design Workshop
At the end of this month, some of our Design Contest winners and Core Team members will meet in NYC at Rise New York, one of the Barclays Rise accelerators we are now part of. Our goal is to build the entire 1.0 wallet interface in three days! It will be fast and furious, with pizza thrown in to sustain us. There will be three people coming from Europe, three from the West Coast, and two from the East Coast. If you’re an experienced designer and want to join us, please contact me directly. We are doing everything we can do go quickly and start shipping wallets people can use.


One of the first Pillar ICOs
Our friends at Etch are having an ICO to create payment systems for people doing hourly work. It’s one of the first systems that has declared their intention to work with the Pillar wallet. They came to Poprad, Slovakia, to be part of the Pillar family. I’m an advisor. As always, remember that all ICO tokens have the chance to go to zero. Portfolio exposure is more important than risk. See my webinar https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=7b75855fd2&e=e6ec2eae28 on postmodern portfolio theory for more. If you’re interested in the future of work, it’s worth learning about Etch and their project.


Check out the ETCH ICO
https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=f98cc4bf34&e=e6ec2eae28

More soon,
David Siegel and The Pillar Team
info@pillarproject.io

[freedomgo]

Great price increase today, https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/pillar/
Even with the bitcoin price is still on rise but it's one of the project I've seen who's rising in the past few days, small exchange but with increasing volume.

[ashmodeus]

PLR 2 the Moon

well
not yet i think
the price still same with ICO price

but on based of ETH price
i dont know
and most active market from etherdelta,
we need another market
i hate etherdelta too much cost of fee 

[Dahman El_Harrachi]

PLR 2 the Moon

well
not yet i think
the price still same with ICO price

but on based of ETH price
i dont know
and most active market from etherdelta,
we need another market
i hate etherdelta too much cost of fee 

the price is 30% below ICO price, ICO price was 0.0005 ETH, i'm glad that i got +120% of PLR when weak hands r dumping.

[Apostle4444]

Price is looking good atm..

Pillar Pillar (PLR)
$0.147585 (+29.47%)

[ashmodeus]

the prices going up
btw , i dont see the important update from dev on social media
shit
i lost the last waves.

[XL2000]

Tidal waves ahead... prepair for a Pillar Tsunami

[Wheelige]

Plr doesn't really seem like a project that will pump on an announcement. Slow rally due to the work being shown to be done. In the end PLR investors will be happy.

[Ipwich]

the prices going up
btw , i dont see the important update from dev on social media
shit
i lost the last waves.

It's down right now, maybe that's because of the pump of bitcoin price.
I miss the train because I was about to sell on the  pump but I expected too much, now that the price is low maybe I'll wait a little bit to fall a bit then buy.

[Apostle4444]

Latest update from the Newsletter...

Wow, things are moving now. A lot to catch you up on …


Token Webinar Coming Up
I’m giving a webinar on token types and business models. It will be live on Wednesday, November 1st, at noon East coast/4pm UK time.
I’ll leave time for people to ask questions (for once). PLEASE NOTE: The UK changes time back one hour on October 31st, while the US changes time on Nov 5th, so for that week the UK will be only 4 hours ahead of the US' East Coast.


Register for the Token Webinar https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=d60eea75ba&e=e6ec2eae28


The New York Design Update
This past week I met with several winners of the wallet design contest for three intense days at the Rise accelerator in New York City. They came from Russia, Holland, California, and Philadelphia. I had no idea how well a team of strangers would work together, but we did the whole thing family style - everyone stayed in one big flat in Brooklyn, and we jammed all day long, sharing meals and really getting into the work, from breakfast until late at night. We’re all aware that we’re designing an operating system that, for now, looks like a wallet. We will share a video update of the experience soon.


The ICO Wallet
At last week’s awesome Pillar MeetUp in Haarlem, Mike Boutwell (or as YouTube knows him, Mike B.) sat down to discuss the ICO Wallet with Tomer Sofinzon, Pillar Project Co-Founder. If you have not already done so, we encourage you to subscribe to Mike B.’s channel for regular updates about Pillar and all things blockchain.


Watch the Conversation https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=473a073c30&e=e6ec2eae28


Is There a 20|30 ICO Coming?
Yes, the rumors are true (plus I mentioned it in the road map), we’re working on an ICO for 20|30. Recall that the Pillar project was a 20|30 project but has now spun out to be its own nonprofit foundation. That leaves 20|30 with no money to create the projects that will go hand in hand with the Pillar wallet.
20|30 has re-launched a new website at www.2030.io and its mission is to create a broad portfolio of blockchain-based projects. In addition to owning ten percent of all Pillar tokens, we are working on creating a special exchange for accredited investors only, and we’re planning to launch several security tokens next year. Then we’ll work on helping startups launch equity-token crowd sales on our platform and help get hundreds of startups get properly funded. We’re breaking new ground, working with regulators, and ultimately changing markets by tokenizing investments and making them available to more people.
You can help! We are looking for accredited/sophisticated investors. The definition of accredited varies in different countries, check here https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=a98fc8f7ea&e=e6ec2eae28. If you’re an accredited investor, or if you know one, please contact us to help get the word out about our upcoming ICO. We want a lot of people to participate in our equity offering, so we can hire more amazing people and keep building the products and services that will change the world.
If you think you are accredited or you know an accredited investor, please contact accredited@2030.io to learn more about what we’re planning. If you know any journalists who cover fintech, please have them do the same. We will be sending out further communications regarding the process of accredited investment. Also please sign up for our 20|30 newsletter on the website for anyone interested in keeping up to date.


Don’t Forget our Wallet Roadmap
If you haven’t seen it yet, please take 6 minutes to ...


Read our Wallet Roadmap https://pillarproject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0056162978ccced9e0e2e2939&id=e788786733&e=e6ec2eae28


As always, feel free to send feedback to david@2030.io

More soon,
David Siegel
info@2030.io

[2030AG]

Long time no see! 
We're coming back with a big update on our project's development.
Get to know more about Pillar Wallet Road Map, Pillar Wallet #1 = Token & ICO Wallet, new ecosystem that we'll build together with 20|30 and upcoming GDPR/Business Wallet & Consumer/Grandma Wallets.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssPtNoa1GEo

Read the Road Map
👀 https://medium.com/@pullnews/the-pillar-wallet-road-map-761222e95127

Read the fresh David's essay on Equity Token Finance
👀 https://medium.com/@pullnews/equity-token-finance-1eeeb14f20f8

Follow us on social channels and don't forget to join us in our MatterMost community
👉🏼 https://community.pillarproject.io