This Crypto Startup Takes Bitcoin Advocacy to a Whole New Level

Blockstack’s former head of growth, Patrick Stanley, is launching a complementary crypto company of his own, Freehold. Much like the former Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas who founded Coil to build services related to XRP, Stanley now runs Freehold as an independent company within the token ecosystem related to Blockstack’s namesake cryptocurrency, STX.

Stanley said his company hired a few part-time workers, starting with a rewards budget of under $250,000 to serve an initial cohort of less than 50 newbies. “Folks will learn about the STX ecosystem but be making outgroup arguments about the technology and why it’s great,” Stanley said, “starting at bitcoin and working their way up.”.

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