jonpaul
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Comment · 6 years ago
We have two: one in the US and the other in Switzerland. ~1/3 are in the US.
Comment · 6 years ago
By "transactions fees", that's meant as a fee to the network. We don't make money off of that. We make money in the spread when you exchange.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm the CEO of Exodus (https://www.exodus.io - mentioned in the article). In many regions, we're currently more popular than the bible: https://www.google.com/search?q=exodus
Exodus is a non-custodial self-hosted wallet. This means that you have access to the funds and only you have access. We don't have access nor do we see your activity.
Betteridge's law of headlines applies here... i.e. no, the government is not banning crypto wallets.
I'm biased, but this regulation will be worse for exchanges. Each customer will likely have to take onerous actions to withdrawal their funds. This will further bifurcate centralized custodial exchanges and non-custodial decentralized products like wallets and DeFi.
Comment · 7 years ago
1) What are some of things you did to validate this idea in accordance with the Lean Startup Methodology?
2) Do you think any approval of this by the regulators was an attempt to stay competitive to the rise of crypto crowdfunding / instant liquidity via crypto markets (ICOs, STOs, IEOs, etc)?
Comment · 10 years ago
Exodus | REMOTE | Nebraska, USA.
The financial crisis of 2008 changed everything.
Exodus is an all-in-one app to secure, manage, and trade blockchain assets (cryptocurrency) like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
We need a Senior Node.js / JavaScript developer. See job description here: https://gist.github.com/jprichardson/4c8eb36b8b6d1099d8b54d2...
See more info about Exodus: https://www.exodus.io/
Comment · 10 years ago
Spoiler, I believe it to violate Betteridge's Law.
Comment · 10 years ago
> not to develop the best editor in the world.
The problem is that "best" is subjective. I think one could more accurately say that they're trying to develop an editor that is easily extensible with technologies familiar to many developers.
i.e. your perception of what they want Atom to be and the reality of what they want Atom to be are probably not the same.
My take? Revisit this in five years. I bet it'll be one of the richest ecosystems in software development. As one who has written Atom plugins (live unit testing w/ real-time feedback), I've never encountered such a developer experience until Atom.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'll throw in an article that I wrote about building an open source Firebase clone: http://procbits.com/2014/01/06/poor-mans-firebase-leveldb-re... / https://github.com/jprichardson/iceden. Written in Node.js.
Comment · 11 years ago
Your statement reads as if you're bothered by the lack of usage / credit towards `bthread`? (Sincere question...)
You write excellent code, most notably `elliptic`; your work on Node.js/io.js is much appreciated! I think the problem is that you don't prioritize documentation. The reality is that consumers of libraries need to know two things: 1) how said library can help save time / be a hero, etc 2) how to use said library.
Keep writing the awesome code that you do. Next time, maybe spend bit more time on documentation, and I think you'll see more traction :)
Comment · 11 years ago
What do you mean? In this context, Scrypt is only relevant to the mining algorithm. As far as writing code for other coins, usually it's just a simple as changing a constant for the version number.
Comment · 11 years ago
> JavaScript crypto is nonsense
What makes you think this?
Comment · 11 years ago
Where does it say that it supports async/await?
Comment · 12 years ago
It's an exciting time to be a JavaScript developer for Bitcoin. There are a number of JavaScript libraries for Bitcoin. Here is a comprehensive list of alternatives to Bitcore:
- https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib (one of the best)
- https://github.com/indutny/bcoin (Indutny's work is found throughout Node.js and is the basis of elliptic curve cryptography in Bitcore)
- https://github.com/ryanxcharles/fullnode (ex-developer of Bitcore and now engineer at Reddit behind Reddit's crypto currency initiative)
- http://cryptocoinjs.com/ (disclosure: I started this one)
Here is an older article that I wrote about understanding how an Address is created (still valid, but using an older version of bitcoinjs-lib): http://procbits.com/2013/08/27/generating-a-bitcoin-address-...
The cool thing is that you can use test Bitcoins without any risk to learn how to program for Bitcoin. Use these faucets: http://tpfaucet.appspot.com/ and http://faucet.xeno-genesis.com/
Here is a very simple wallet that I built to demonstrate how easy it is to build one: https://github.com/coinbolt/simple-wallet
Finally, an open source app to test the purchasing experience of Bitcoin: https://github.com/coinbolt/catshop
Comment · 12 years ago
No, of course not! I wasn't referring to the hack as a publicity stunt, I was referring to the cancelation of the movie.