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Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

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If you click on News there are links to download a 2.7 MB archive of Circle logos in various shapes and sizes and a 36 MB (that's thirty-six megabytes) headshot of Circle's CEO. I have no idea what Circle does but I do know it's run by an egomaniac.

They remind me of this bunch of chancers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn

Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

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"Starting today, people can onboard into a Circle account and begin using digital money..." That sounds weird to me. I am not a native speaker of English, though. Is this normal usage? Googling for "onboard into" gives me headlines that do make sense to me: "Step onboard into history! - TripAdvisor" "Bus plunges with two babies onboard into trench — Guyana" "@KLM Is it possible to take crutches onboard into the cabin…

"onboarding" has become somewhat of a UX term. It refers to the process of taking a non-customer and turning them into a customer that understands and can use the product. There's actually a website that gives examples of different company's "onboarding" experiences: http://www.useronboard.com/

That may well be. For me, it sounded like an HR (human resources dept) term: "employee on-boarding" (something that sounds like employee water-boarding but not as bad).

Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

if they follow you example, they will just convert "without fees" but using their much more expensive coversion rate

This. Their revenue model is screwing you over relative to the exchange rate with massive buy/sell spreads.

Wrong. Buy/sell spread is zero, research before you speak.

Re: Circle opens doors to global audience

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First: interesting company and concept. I would love to see this go further, will be keeping my eye on it. Second: who's idea was it to implement that wretched parallax effect on their homepage? Not only is it a tawdry but it gives me vertigo which is usually a rare experience on the modern web and has thus-far created a very negative experience for me. I stopped looking at the homepage and just read the wikipedia ar…

Unfortunately the parallax effect is choppy on anything but Chrome for me on Mac.

It's smooth for me (Chrome on Ubuntu) but it's still a maddening design choice.
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