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10 pointsRiphyak15 comments

Argh. These folks emailed me by trying to guess my email address with a link here. Here's the text of the email:

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Hi John,

Greetings from Anton, CEO and co-founder at YouTeam, a marketplace for hiring offshore development talent.

Lately, we’ve been researching the topic everyone wants to know more about but fears to ask: salaries in blockchain. Did you know that according to public sources the average blockchain developer salary in the US equals $95,545? Would you agree with this or do you think it is actually way higher? We researched the salaries in the most popular cities in the US and right now discussing them on Hacker News.

Help us gather fresh opinions, find more reliable sources and better data!

Join the conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403348

Best, Anton Mishchenko CEO and Co-founder of YouTeam

+44 20 3868 7878 I a@youteam.io 800 West El Camino Real, Suite 180, Mountain View, California, 94040, USA

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Really sorry about what happened. Total miscommunication on our side led to believing that we are supposed to reach out to someone we don't know with this email. Obviously this shouldn't have happened and again I am sorry it did. Promise I'll make sure this doesn't happen again.

I got the same email. I flagged this article.

My sincere apologies - this was a result of a miscommunication inside our team. Happy to elaborate if you care to hear more. We are very much aware of the HN community standards. Won't happen again - promise.

Yeah, this was mass-promoted via spam.

Very sorry about this. It was a slip up and a miscommunication on our team - I hope it didn't cause too much trouble. Sorry once again.

Hi guys, I’m Anton, co-founder of YouTeam and Cryptohire. Happy to answer any questions about the findings I've presented in our article.

I would love to have a discussion with startup founders about salaries in blockchain. We were actually quite surprised with the data we gathered from public sources. I expected the salary range to be way higher. But then again - nobody, sort of, talks about this publicly.

I'd really appreciate if you can point us in the direction where we can gather more data because it’s just the beginning of our more extensive research. Something else I would love to discuss is whether you look for in-house blockchain developers or do you usually hire remotely?

Feel free to join the conversation :)

According to the data in this article, most companies prefer hiring permanent in-house blockchain specialists and one of the reason is the issue of sensitive data.

Yes, I’m quite sure that with the time remote teams will become a common type of employment within software industry and blockchain in particular. Today many companies such as Zapier, Trello, InVision and many others manage distributed teams and they prove that although remote work has some disadvantages, it offers way more opportunities, e.g. an access to a wide talent pool. I believe the same goes for blockchain companies.

What is going on in this discussion thread? You both work for the same company.

The apologies are also funny, there are multiple versions by the same person but they all differ in the exact reasons about what happened. I wouldn't touch this company with a 10' pole.

Flagging this.

Screw you for spamming to draw attention to an HN discussion.

Really retarded to use email spam to promote HN, this is the last website where I would expect such a tactic.

Really sorry about this. It wasn't that much of a tactic - just a stupid mistake on our side. I am aware of the HN community rules and will make sure this doesn't happen again. Sorry.

As other comments note, this submission was spammed.

The better question is how did they get a list of emails of HN users (w/ first names)?

Everyone who has complained in this thread has contact info in their HN bio.

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