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klonckson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

Amun | NYC, Zurich | Full-time | Onsite

We launched the world's first crypto index exchange-traded product on the Swiss Stock Exchange in November 2018 (ticker: HODL) and have plans for a lot more exchange-traded products in 2019. Our products run on our technology platform, using public blockchain to settle and clear public securities on a daily basis.

We believe in a future where everything is tokenized, and we are starting with tokenizing our own ETF in 2019 in addition to building the backend infrastructure for compliance, fund administration, and accounting necessary to operate not just our own products but other issuers as well. This is a rare opportunity to work on a crypto/blockchain product with a direct connection to a top ten global stock exchange.

Looking for software engineers excited about building this vision, in our office in New York for those authorized to work in the United States or Zurich for those with EU residency or work authorization.

Please contact us at careers@amun.com

klonckson Dropbox Amendment to Form S-1

No idea, but I just up-voted you. Your post was helpful to me. Thank you and have a good day.

klonckson Dropbox Amendment to Form S-1

NYT is big one that I know, but others include:

News Corp, Sinclair, WaPo, NYT

Other media companies in general.

klonckson Dropbox Amendment to Form S-1

Yes it was. See Newspapers/media barons.

klonckson Twitter's COO Noto Resigns to Become Chief Executive at SoFi

The company Jack Dorsey is CEO that is doing well isn't Twitter. If he is thinking logically, that would be where he will focus all his resources.

Twitter needs and deserves a full-time CEO or to get sold to a larger company that can do something with it.

klonckson Bitcoin Is More Expensive to Keep Safe Than Gold

Isn’t Xapo free?

I think custodianship hasn’t been solved for other currencies but it has for Bitcoin. Coinbase and GBTC are just over charging because they can.

klonckson After the end of the startup era

Why do you not think the world needs SMBs over larger corporations with more resources? Are there any economic study or more academic writings on this topic. I'd be curious.

klonckson Software Engineer, Machine Learning

I genuinely don't understand the criticism. You don't find or enjoy working 70-90 hours healthy? That's your view and you likely shouldn't apply for this position.

Even assuming this is crazy, what's wrong with crazy people recruiting similarly minded crazy people? It's most obviously not a fit for anyone who wants to work 40 hours or wants to see their kids or whatever, but for those, there are plenty of other jobs. I just find it crazy that because of your personal views on work-life-balance, you expect Ng to have to change his desires for you. That seems wrong to me imho.

klonckson Billionaire Porn King Reinvents Himself as Japan's Startup Guru

Just out of curiosity, what's the Bitcoin exchange you reference?

klonckson BTC-e and its founder charged in 21-count indictment over hack of Mt. Gox

iirc they rejected deposits from any American bank accounts and specifically said they won't work with German or US residents or citizens.

klonckson YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

Source for this textile patent claim? I want to read more on it :)

klonckson My Favorite Books of 2016

This question has been asked a lot. He's impressive in that more often than not, he reads the books cover-to-cover.

klonckson Tell HN: New features and a moderator

Just upvoted you twice and it seems you're now past the 501 mark! Welcome to voting land :P

klonckson The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it

I think he was referring to the madness that occurred from the governor recall and revote a few years back, which would be like a major referendum

klonckson Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns

Serious question.

Yelp's revenue model is a bad conflict of interest. They rank the destinations AND the destinations have to buy advertising too.

What revenue model could they do that would work and not be shady? I can't think of one. Charge users?

klonckson Square Prices Its IPO at $9, giving it a $2.7B valuation

A lot of startups start with 10m or 15m

klonckson Venmo Five Years Ago

In summary- it’s so awesome to see how they went from scrappy to a must-have product that does around $700mm in annual transactions.

Where is this from? Venmo should be doing much higher than this figure.

klonckson Your company is not “too far along” for YC

Does YC actually take 7% regardless of company stage?

There's no way YC owns 7% of Quora, for example, and I thought they would follow a similar model to attract larger companies?

klonckson G is for Google

What made egypt and the levant albatrosses? Source? I'd love to learn more.

klonckson Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?

Why would it be valued north of $1b?

klonckson Ribbon BIN API – Find out how your customers are paying

Bigger database, more current, more updated, easier to deal with, among other things :)

klonckson Ribbon BIN API – Find out how your customers are paying

We charge less for debits vs credits, rather than giving a different fee for Visa vs MasterCard.

klonckson Ribbon BIN API – Find out how your customers are paying

A bunch of different sources, including some bank databases. We also have to update it regularly.

klonckson Ribbon BIN API – Find out how your customers are paying

We built this internally for our needs, then decided to give it out to any service that needs similar functionality. The first six cards of any card tells us some interesting information on the identity of the card, such as type (debit/credit), brand (amex, visa), country (US, ES, GA), and issuer bank (chase, wells), etc.

This would be of good use if you want to do things like, block international cards, charge less for debit cards, or generate more analytics about how you get paid.

We're giving it away for free for most practical purposes, up to 1,000 requests a day. If you want more, just shoot us an email, hany@ribbon.co

klonckson Mattermark Has Raised $2M in Our Second Seed Round

No valuation, because of convertible debt

No board seats

Not a lot of money raised, so not as dilutive as typical Series A

No expectation to hit "Series B" type metrics next time they raise

klonckson Facebook was down

...and they're back.

klonckson Benchmark Backs Bitcoin Secure Storage Provider Xapo

Care to elaborate?

klonckson Ribbon Launches P2P Payments App. No app or account required

There's a ton of interest regarding bitcoins specifically in the office. We'll see what we can do.

klonckson Ribbon Launches P2P Payments App. No app or account required

I hope so!

klonckson Ribbon Launches P2P Payments App. No app or account required

We make all of our money from the merchant product that 10k merchants are using. We've been doing that for a while now. (o.ribbon.co)

It allows us to build a consumer version and give it away for free :)