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joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

There are companies that repeat the job posting for 10+ months in a row. We've only posted 3 months... but you are right, we haven't replied to some of you and we are very sorry for that.

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

Hi Nate, sorry, we have received a lot of applications. It's been impossible to reply to all. We also had to pause the application process during the last 3 weeks, and we are resuming it today.

I promise we'll send an email to everyone once we move to the next stage in the coming couple of weeks(we're still screening). Apologies again.

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

Blockchain Trading Platform | Several positions | Remote | Full-time | $160k-$220k + Rev share

Hi! join us and help us build a trading platform for digital assets from scratch! We are a group of HNers with experience working with top financial firms, that have united to explore and push the boundaries of financial innovation launching a next-gen cryptotrading platform. You'll be able to participate in the initial architectural and design decisions building a product in a fast-moving and thriving industry.

Positions (all $160k-$220k):

   Senior Trading Systems Engineer  	(C/C++, KDB+/Q, HFT, Trading Engines, Risk Management)
   Senior Front-end Engineer		(React, Redux, ES2015/Typescript, RxJS)
   Senior Back-end Engineer		(Node, REST, Microservices, Websocket servers)
   Blockchain Engineer			(Crypto, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Smart Contracts)
   Principal Security Engineer		(Nessus, WAF, IDS, DMZs, DDoS mitigation, Pentesting, Code review)
   Senior Infrastructure Engineer	(AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, HA, Monitoring, Logging)

Benefits & Perks:

   - 0.5 to 2.5% revenue sharing
   - 100% remote position (looking also offices in the City of London)
   - 40h/week organised as you want
   - Friendly startup atmosphere
   - No hard deadlines

If you are interested ping me (email in my profile)

Cheers!

joeyspnon Colony: A platform for open organizations

This is probably one of the first Ethereum projects along with Augur.

Back in 2014, I remember talking with the founder about this project in the original Ethereum Forums when it was only an idea. I was also interested in self-organisation and decentralised management in a blockchain (Holacracy, etc). Glad to see he's come so far and still believes in his idea.

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)

No help required Angelo, but thank you for your offer.

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)

Potentially if you fit what we are looking for... (without equity tho). Shoot me an email and we'll discuss from there.

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)

Hi xtracto, yes sorry. Las month we received quite a bit of applications. We contacted the most promising ones and we'll reply to everyone as soon as we can because we're still reviewing profiles. Apologies.

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)

Blockchain Trading Platform | Several positions | Remote | Full-time | $160k-$220k + Equity

Positions (all $160k-$220k) :

   Senior Trading Systems Engineer  	(C/C++, KDB+/Q, HFT, Trading Engines, Risk Management)
   Senior Front-end Engineer		(React, Redux, ES2015/Typescript, RxJS)
   Senior Back-end Engineer		(Node, REST, Microservices, Websocket servers)
   Blockchain Engineer			(Crypto, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Smart Contracts)
   Principal Security Engineer		(Nessus, WAF, IDS, DMZs, DDoS mitigation, Pentesting, Code review)
   Senior Infrastructure Engineer	(AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, HA, Monitoring, Logging)

Benefits & Perks:

   - 0.5 to 2.5% stock options or revenue sharing
   - 100% remote position (looking also offices in the City of London)
   - 40h/week organised as you want
   - Friendly startup atmosphere
   - No hard deadlines

If you are interested ping me (email in my profile)

Cheers!

joeyspnon How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

No, but Tony Blair suspended the Northern Ireland assembly several times and reimposed direct rule from London, which is probably where the Catalan issue is headed, because everything is illegal from the state's point of view.

Texas has had secessionist movements also for some time, but it'd be also illegal to do a binding referendum, and Washington would take the required steps to stop it.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/24/can-texas-legally-se...

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

Good question. We'll build on top of the king (BTC) or queen (ETH). We could start with plain BTC or ETH to speed things ups, and issue an ERC20 (ETH) or RSK-based token (BTC) down the road.

But we're not into the pump and dump thing and we want to be 200% compliant. So we'll have to analyse this move carefully. We're also very open to new ideas and input from the new members.

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

Not exactly, but you can choose to be paid partly/fully in bitcoin, which is the best performing "stock" in 6 of the past 7 years (and could potentially keep performing as the number one for some years).

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

Some hours of overlap with GMT/London would be nice, but not necessary... we're fine with any location.

joeyspnon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

Blockchain Project | Backend Dev, Frontend Dev, Application Security Engineer, DevOps | Remote | Full-time | $160k-$200k

Hi! we are a couple of fellow HNers launching a new cryptocurrency-based project. We don’t even have the name yet! We’re in ideation and architecting phase and we’ll be building from the ground up a project similar to funfair.io, but without the ICO part. This means we'll need help with everything!: architectural decisions, devops workflows, games state sync design, security (WAF, IDS, etc).

Frontend Hypewords: React, Redux, RxJS, Webpack

Backend Hypewords: NodeJS, GraphQL/Apollo, Deepstream, RethinkDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Bitcoin, Ethereum

Requisites:

  - 4+ years of hands-on experience
  - Ability to learn quickly new stacks and technologies

Bonus points:

  - Strong maths
  - Degree or PhD (CS or similar fields)
  - Experience with bitcoin/crypto

Perks:

  - 100% remote position
  - 40h/week organised as you prefer
  - No hard deadlines (goodbye stress!)
  - The best teammates ever

If you are interested send me your CV (email in my profile) and let's chat about it!

Cheers!

joeyspnon Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

Well, as you may know it's currently being used in some coins like bitshares [0] and it works fine, Ethereum also is migrating to PoS [1]. So the consensus for a lot of people in the ecosystem is that it works.

[0] https://bitshares.org/technology/delegated-proof-of-stake-co...

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-casper-proof-stake-rewrite...

joeyspnon Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

> something is wrong and needs to be fixed

It's already fixed with PoS... IMO the winner of the cryptocurrency-race will be a PoS-based coin.

joeyspnon Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?

Maybe it didn't appear in journals, but certainly has had much more impact than 99% of the papers in the last decade.

An amazing contrast: "Publish or perish" driven research vs "I don't want the fame, I just want to build something useful and practical".

joeyspnon Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO

Answer (if you want USA investors): https://coinlist.co/

Answer (if you don't need USA investors): http://cryptovalley.swiss/

joeyspnon Bitcoin has risen more than eightfold in past year

> the entire cost of all equipment needed to connect your computer to the Blockstream Satellite network is only about $100 USD

So you need to buy a SDR transceiver in order to operate...

https://blockstream.com/satellite/blockstream-satellite/

joeyspnon Snap sold fewer than 42K Spectacles, down 35% in Q2

^ Best review. Honest and politically correct.

joeyspnon Service Changes for U.S. Customers

Manipulation in the crypto-world is rampant, it happens all the time in ALL the exchanges. But it's not a bug, it's a feature of unregulated markets.

I've posted this before:

Go to "shenanigans section": http://parasec.net/transmission/order-book-visualisation/

Code is available here: https://github.com/phil8192/ob-analytics, just in case someone decides to grab a good chunk of tick-by-tick data (orderbook) and wants to go down the rabbit hole...

joeyspnon If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?

> I'm sure there's some blockchain based commenting thing out there...

Now that you name it, I totally forgot that Steem has a pretty good commenting system, and probably they're storing the entries on-chain. So maybe the answer is adding Graphene to the mix (Filecoin + Webtorrent + Graphene 2.0 as Blockchain-based distributed DB):

https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-developer-updat...

joeyspnon If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?

Didn't know about this! Really cool

joeyspnon If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?

That's the difficult part. :P maybe current comments could be stored in json files and loaded with the song. New comments could update the json on IPFS:

https://flyingzumwalt.github.io/ipfs-tutorials/curriculum/fi...

It's possible but far from efficient. Those are the pain points where decentralisation doesn't really cut it.

joeyspnon If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?

Sounds like an awesome use case for something like Filecoin [0] (IPFS). Move all the tracks to decentralised storage, stream with something like webtorrent [1] and research some kind of service fees via filecoin's token...

[0] https://filecoin.io/

[1] https://webtorrent.io/

joeyspnon SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities

> or one that doesn't strictly regulate sale of securities

There's a reason why some crypto-companies (and not crypto actually) are based in the Cayman Islands (BitMEX), British Virgin Islands (Bitfinex), etc... Crypto Valley [0] in Switzerland is also gaining momentum. BTW, Fred Wilson wrote an interesting piece about this recently [1].

But the issue here is that if you plan to sell "tokens" to US nationals, you now know that you must play by the SEC rules. That or you shouldn't offer them to US individuals. Nothing rare about it, for instance CFDs [2] are financial instruments banned in the US, but traded without problems in the rest of the world. My guess is that ICOs will be like CFDs, offered around the world, but not to US citizens.

[0] https://cryptovalley.swiss/

[1] http://avc.com/2017/07/jurisdictional-competition/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_for_difference

joeyspnon SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities

BOOM! the game just changed...

> In light of the facts and circumstances, the agency has decided not to bring charges in this instance, or make findings of violations in the Report, but rather to caution the industry and market participants: the federal securities laws apply to those who offer and sell securities in the United States, regardless whether the issuing entity is a traditional company or a decentralized autonomous organization, regardless whether those securities are purchased using U.S. dollars or virtual currencies, and regardless whether they are distributed in certificated form or through distributed ledger technology.

joeyspnon Learn Ethereum smart contract programming

RSK [0] is already in beta and EOS [1] will launch a dev testnet in Q3-Q4 IIRC. RSK uses the ethereum VM so the smart contracts and dApps will be compatible/portable.

[0] http://www.rsk.co/

[1] https://eos.io/

joeyspnon Raising a Truly Bilingual Child

Yeah that man speaks slowly what appears to be the variant of catalan spoken in France... I'm referring to something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-OXwRP5A9E

Spanish speakers will notice a lot of "familiar words", but most of the time it's difficult for them to extrapolate the meaning of what is being said.

joeyspnon Raising a Truly Bilingual Child

Yeah, that’s a common misconception, but the reality is different. Just because they’re in the same linguistic group (Romance-derived languages) doesn’t mean they’re the same.

It’s like saying that german, dutch and english (Germanic languages) are extremely similar… =)

joeyspnon Raising a Truly Bilingual Child

> As a US spanish speaker, saying Catalan is another language is kind of debateable at least IMHO and gets into the interesting difference between a dialect and a language

A spaniard who doesn't speak catalan won't understand 95% of a normal convo... Catalan [0] is lexically as distant from the spanish as the Portuguese is [1]...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language

[1] https://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among...