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Comment · 3 years ago

I struggle with getting exertion headaches whenever my heart rate goes over 170 bpm for more than a minute or two. It's incredibly frustrating to have to hold back and moderate my physical activity, knowing that if I don't I'll have a rather debilitating headache for the rest of the day and potentially into the next day.

I do get a lot of exercise, but I keep it in the lower zones to avoid this complication and I still feel like I get such a great mood boost and improvements to my cognitive abilities wrt to work.

Comment · 3 years ago

I would pay a subscription fee if only to get back SMS capabilities.

Comment · 3 years ago

Anchorage, Finoa, Copper, Gemini, Coinbase Custody, Fidelity...the list goes on.

Comment · 4 years ago

The funny thing is that when the trustee pays out the remaining BTC from Mt. Gox back to creditors, you're going to have some massive gains.

Comment · 4 years ago

What's the internet situation like? I hears Starlink for boats is coming but costs an arm and a leg...

Comment · 4 years ago

Kraken's offers are not affected by geography in any way. The are engineering salary bands are completely agnostic of region.

Comment · 4 years ago

For engineering/product etc. that's the case. Doesn't matter if you move from San Francisco to Thailand or some other low cost of living area, your pay remains the same.

Comment · 4 years ago

Kraken has a few thousand employees, has been a remote first company for a decade, and pays the same no matter where you live.

Comment · 4 years ago

Called it: https://cryptonews.com/news/binance-shares-what-caused-backl...

Comment · 4 years ago

The only thing that comes to mind here is that there was a fee spike [1] and they've got too many unspents stuck in the mempool and can't initiate further withdrawals because their wallet is effectively "spent" until those pending transactions complete and they receive their change. I find this a bit hard to believe though...wallet management isn't simple when it comes to the scale that Binance handles, however I'd be shocked if they didn't have code written to trigger CPFP (Child Pays For Parent) [2].

[1] https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,30d,weight

[2] https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/cpfp/

Comment · 5 years ago

Bitcoin alone is worth over 1T, so your statement that all of crypto is worth less than 1T is a bit silly. The goal posts keep moving for crypto...next year it'll be that crypto is worth less than 5T, etc.

I looked at the NYSE daily volumes...unless I'm reading them wrong, they did $800m USD worth of trades today. Coinbase did $5b USD worth of trades today. So if you compare a company that's almost 200 years olds volume against a 9 year old company, and find that the startup is doing more than 5 times the volume of the incumbent (with zero lock in, since clients are free to trade cryptos on any exchange), then I'd say your comparison is actually a ringing endorsement for Coinbase.

Comment · 5 years ago

I took my first stab at designing and having my own PCB manufactured for a mechanical clock I'm trying to build. At the moment I'm currently stuck trying to debug the 7 x MCP23017 devices on my I2C bus. I picked up an oscilliscope and added a level converted between the RPi and my PCB, but I feel pretty lost as I'm a complete novice and have no formal background in electronics. This article provides a lot of useful information for someone like me! Online all you usually get are single MCP23017 implementations, nothing too complex.

Comment · 5 years ago

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange | Backend Engineers/DevOps Engineers for Funding | Remote | https://www.kraken.com/en-us/careers

Kraken was founded in 2011, being a pioneer exchange in the crypto market. Kraken is in rapid expansion of its engineering teams. At Kraken we have a remote global workforce, allowing our employees to have more freedom in choosing how to organize their routine and balance work and personal life.

These jobs are all part of Kraken's funding engineering team, facilitating the free flow of crypto and money across the globe.

Backend Engineer - Crypto Payments - https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/39031c44-2060-467d-8991-79f23de...

Backend Engineer - Fiat Payments - https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/bd3d0185-eb56-441e-8ceb-5757711...

Backend Engineer - Staking & DeFi - https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/37dbb8c2-b60c-42bd-a98f-0a3fc86...

DevOps Engineer - Blockchain Infrastructure - https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/b2dd90bf-694b-4ad2-9c3a-81e506b...

We're growing by leaps and bounds, looking for all levels of experience in crypto, bank integrations, staking, defi, blockchain infrastructure automation, and more!

Dozens of other roles also available at on our careers page at https://www.kraken.com/en-us/careers.

Comment · 6 years ago

Binance has fiat on-ramps and off-ramps, not sure where you get the idea that it's a "crypto only" exchange.

Comment · 6 years ago

What service would the HN folks recommend for someone who needs to run a few dozen different docker services that require persistent storage? It would be nice to just have a pool of compute resources tied to persistent storage and be able to spin up docker instances at will. K8's has been suggested as the correct solution but it sounds like a lot of overhead for services that require no scaling at all.