Dear Members of the Bitcoin Community, Customers, Partners, and Friends!
Many of you are aware that TradeHill opened up last week just before ‘Black Friday’. To say the least, it kept us extremely busy. Now that we are caught up, we thought to formally introduce ourselves.

But first, our principles. Summed up by the following quote:

“Truth — more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality—
is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes.”
Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates.

In the spirit of the above words, we promise our full skills, abilities and values to ensure accuracy, responsibility, and honesty in dealing with each other, our customers, our partners, and the world.

Adam Stradling
Co-founder at TradeHill.


Five years experience as a Business Development Executive in banking, finance and technology. Over the last 3 years he has been working at Evalueserve consulting with major investment banks and hedge funds to build offshore research centers focusing on quantitative finance, data analytics and investment technology. Previously worked for General Electric in Schenectady, NY (during college), then at Terrapinn in Manhattan, NY, NY. Currently working toward his Certificate of Quantitative Finance. He graduated with a degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He lives in Chile, and is an NYC expat.

Francisco Dagnino
Co-founder at TradeHill.

Recently left his full-time job working with one of the top three largest retail and commercial banks on their data analytics and database engineering team at Evalueserve. Seven years professional experience working on technological projects as an analyst and manager.  Francisco has programming skills in SQL, VBA, and more. He has left EVS to work full-time on building Tradehill. He lives in Chile and is a native. 


MJD
Co-founder at TradeHill.


Serial entrepreneur having started multiple successful companies including an automated trading firm, an engineering consulting firm, and a mobile software company boosting over 300 iPhone Applications.  Previously the head of software development for a Los Angeles based start-up commercial spaceflight company. Background in cognitive science and computer engineering.


Jered Kenna
Co-founder at TradeHill.

Former Marine and professional soldier in Afghanistan. After serving his country, he was lured into working for Halliburton. During which, he developed a palpable distaste for unethical and fraudulent business practices and a strong dislike for LCBs. He is originally from Independence, Oregon (the end of the Oregon Trail if you remember that). He lives in Chile. Jered and Adam have been friends for 10 years.


We are all 29 to 31 years old.
We are keeping an open mind to working with different individuals/firms so we encourage people to introduce themselves.
We would like to thank all of our new customers, partners, and friends. We are excited, motivated, and focused on working toward the end goal.
Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you!
The TradeHill Team

Can I suggest creating both a twitter account and a presence in an IRC channel (ex: #TradeHill)?

You can use these two to communicate with your customer base in the event something were to happen to tradehill like just happened to MtGox. Twitter is fantastic for getting out quick "we know it - were working on it" snippets to ease people's fear.

putting my tinfoil hat on, this all seems very strange.

Mtgox is hacked/crashed - goes offline

Mass of threads/posts about how Mtgox was hacked, unsafe etc.

Mass of threads/posts about how we should all switch to Tradehill

Introduction thread about who tradehill is, within several hours of Mtgox going offline.


The chance of this all being coincidence doesn't seem very high, this definitely looks like a duck to me.

the classy thing to do would be to just ease up while Mtgox is being attacked, instead of jumping in like sharks smelling blood in the water. "This PR spree" reflects poorly on your company.

We can accept international wires. If you want to buy Bitcoin with any currency.
Go to your bank, buy USD and then wire it in.
SEPA is coming ASAP, we are growing as fast as possible.
We don't want to over extend ourselves and fail. We would much rather provide a reliable service.

In regards to the servers we're on it. It's one thing to grow quickly and another to have the entire Bitcoin world try to log in at once.