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Comment · 5 years ago
This will change in some years though. Conversion will cost less gas with L2. Things are progressing quickly on those problems. Dexs and liquidity pools will have near zero fees.

Personally, I think unless coinbase pivots, their current business model is not sustainable in the long term. But right now, coinbase is capturing value in a way that the early majority of crypto's adoption curve can digest.

Comment · 5 years ago
> - Booleans in the API are `true` or `undefined`. Seriously.

But why???

Comment · 5 years ago
I choose to read "tries" as the data structure and I am endlessly amused at the pun.
Comment · 5 years ago
Pretty cool to see non-crypto projects being built using IPFS.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm a technical writer for a tech software start-up, but I started in sales. There's always some content that needs to be written. Blogposts, documentation, whitepapers, etc.

I started by... well writing. I wrote a some blogposts, and a few of them trended on HN. Eventually, when we hired our CMO, he saw what I had been putting out and asked me to help out more. At a certain point, it made sense for me to transition entirely to writing.

Since you're not a professional writer, don't expect to be given a lot of writing responsibility. You basically have to prove yourself. If you have an editor at your company, work with them. I didn't have any formal writing training, but I applied the feedback I got from our editor and slowly my quality improved. It took me about 4-5 months before I was fully trusted to write quality pieces without hand-holding.

Given that you're a software engineer, you have the domain knowledge to write some very useful content. It's just about finding your style.

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