> the only thinking you'll have to do is how to manage your private keys securely.
But it’s also the fun part, because it’s the first time you really need persistent end-user key management. Obviously a hard problem, but there’s a ton of money on the line if you solve the UX. And imagine what else you can do once we’re not relying on passwords and federated auth.
Tether is the FUD that never stops giving, anyone remember Bitfinexed from 2017?
Do people try to manipulate price? Of course they do. Sometimes it works, retail investors get excited and pile in. Sometimes it doesn't, and whales get rekt. Markets are messy.
How do we fix this? Stop barring Bitcoin companies from working with mainstream banks, and USDT volume will dry up.
Because the entire global economy is premised on having enough growth to pay off the debt incurred by previous generations. If people choose to be less productive the whole edifice comes crashing down.
People care about privacy, and more are willing to pay for it. There is a massive opportunity for direct monetization through cryptocurrency users, and the things you could build when this problem is solved...
Very few people turn that down, and even fewer are capable of running $100B companies. But those who are in the second camp are also probably in the first camp, because being an effective CEO requires the irrational confidence of first believing you are an effective CEO with limited evidence.
It's a little tautological, but the fact that they took it means they probably wouldn't have succeeded.
As the article mentioned, wave action will cause the center of gravity (CG) of the liquid to shift, and with it the overall ship's CG. This puts the ship in a new stable equilibrium heeled over to that side. If the compartment isn't dewatered, this process can repeat until the 'stable' equilibrium includes upper decks taking on sea water. CG shifts up, righting arm becomes flipping arm, hull experiences stress beyond tolerances, breaches kill remaining buoyancy, and down she goes.
By the way, the easiest way to tell if a ship is in danger of hitting critical (aka neutral aka very very bad) stablility, watch how long it takes to rock from side to side. A ship that has an excessively long roll period and appears to be hanging to one or both sides can in serious danger.
I don't think that the distinction between art and technology stands up to scrutiny. Both are iterative creative processes, and we want to empower future generations of both artists and technologists to build their ideas in a way that advances the current stack. Allowing art to be balkanized with excessive copyright hurts cultural development. And we depend on culture to shape everything, including our current environment that fosters technical innovation.
No, but Google needs to worry about a much more important constituency. There are not that many people who know how to build something like this.
Most are probably wealthy, to the point they don't really need to work. All of them can figure out how to covertly contact journalists. And at least a few of them are starting to have qualms about the negative consequences of industry ignoring the social implications in pursuit of profit.
In my experience, the people who go for the extra money in derm and ortho don't need it from a wealth perspective, but often need it from a social and self-worth perspective.
Over time this dynamic translates into to the prestige gap.
Messari is a venture-backed startup building open data for cryptoassets. Our mission is to promote transparency and smarter decision-making within this emerging ecosystem by building a free, global, and open-source data library for cryptoasset projects.
We think crypto is great, but there are way too many scams. We want to give investors the tools to separate the wheat from the chaff, and apply new models for open source contributions and self-regulation to financial services along the way.
We are looking for a few talented team members:
- Infrastructure engineer to help design, architect, and build our scalable data systems. Experience working with blockchain data is great, but this will be a boring old low-latency, high capacity centralized database for the foreseeable future.
- Web UI/UX Designer to take ownership of the UI/UX vision for our product in its entirety, and drive it from ideation to implementation. Our standard is 'so easy a regulator can grock it', so you'll have your work cut out for you.
- Research analyst to create thematic and macro focused reports for the cryptoasset industry, and help launch our curated content products.
This is an ideal opportunity if you are interested in crypto, but turned off by some of the excesses in the industry. We are an experienced, mission driven team looking to drive the asset class forward. Our team has a mix of startup and institutional experience at Microsoft, Palantir, Bloomberg, Tower Research, Digital Currency Group, Coindesk, JP Morgan, S&P, and the SEC.
Please send your resume and a quick note introducing yourself to [email protected]
Messari is a venture-backed startup building open data for cryptoassets. Our mission is to promote transparency and smarter decision-making within this emerging ecosystem by building a free, global, and open-source data library for cryptoasset projects.
We think crypto is great, but there are way too many scams. We want to give investors the tools to separate the wheat from the chaff.
We are looking for a few talented team members:
- Infrastructure engineers to help design, architect, and build our scalable data systems. Experience working with blockchain data is great, but this will be a boring old low-latency, high capacity centralized database for the foreseeable future
- Smart contract developers to help build our TCR in Solidity
- Full stack engineers to help manage the site
- Can't code, but like to hang out on HN? We're also looking a junior research analyst and an ops associate.
This is an ideal opportunity if you are interested in crypto, but turned off by some of the excesses in the industry. We are an experienced, mission driven team looking to drive the asset class forward. Our team has a mix of startup and institutional experience at Microsoft, Palantir, Bloomberg, Tower Research, Digital Currency Group, Coindesk, JP Morgan, S&P, and the SEC.
Please send your resume and a quick note introducing yourself to [email protected]
> the only thinking you'll have to do is how to manage your private keys securely.
But it’s also the fun part, because it’s the first time you really need persistent end-user key management. Obviously a hard problem, but there’s a ton of money on the line if you solve the UX. And imagine what else you can do once we’re not relying on passwords and federated auth.