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by hault 3647 days ago
urbit dev here: the sale site is sale.urbit.org. Unfortunately, we're sold out for now. There will be another crowdsale, but we do not yet know the details. The first announcement will always go out to our mailing list (see urbit.org). This sale sold out before we announced it anywhere other than the list.
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I got your email, but not until I checked after dinner so missed the very brief window.

A couple observations -- The stars were underpriced, by how much it's hard to know. If your goal is to seed the owner class with random giveaways, this was a success, I suppose. Second, 1020 stars was a HUGE amount to give away. I thought perhaps you would pre-sell one star's share of planets for $1 /ea. $205 for a star is nothin.

From my armchair, what I would suggest is to focus on developing a secondary market for urbit addresses PRIOR TO any further crowdsale. That way you can get some indication of demand before pricing another Tlon-organized event.

Presumably $209k is not interesting money, even to Tlon. It's a shame you gave away 1% at that price but maybe will work out in the end as a way to bootstrap the network with early enthusiasts.

If they just give away 1% every time they can do 70+ sales before they even use up half.
Just a heads-up, I signed up for the mailing list a few weeks ago and didn't receive the notice. I suppose there could be some kind of filter on my end blocking it, but just wanted you to be aware! Tried a different email address yesterday and didn't get a confirmation email, so not sure if it worked.