leishman

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Comment · 1 month ago

River is a client-first Bitcoin-only financial institution building the financial app people use every day to save in bitcoin and spend in dollars. We custody over 33,000 BTC, serve individuals and businesses across the U.S., and are profitable. We publish cryptographic proof of reserves monthly and our company financials annually.

Here's what our engineering team is working on:

  - Real-time Bitcoin and USD payments, trading, and settlement on an Elixir monolith with a unified GraphQL API
  - Next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing, key ceremonies, and geo-redundant infrastructure
  - Scaling our ML/AI systems (Python, PyTorch, XGBoost, LLMs) to automate operations and tackle fraud/risk
  - A ground-up React and React Native rewrite of our consumer app
  - Porting our Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir

We're hiring: - Staff Software Engineer (Elixir) | $200K-$250K

Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river/610f652b-bdb9-4d82-9973-680ba...

We replaced our ledger with two functions river.com

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Comment · 2 months ago

I don't understand why Github hasn't solved this problem with pricing updates. My understanding is they are getting hammered with LLM generated code growing their traffic by over an order of magnitude. So why not rate limit non-paying users and charge for whatever scarce resource is being consumed that is causing them to constantly fall-over? This seems like a basic economics problem.

Comment · 2 months ago

> Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code

Which means they have a pricing problem. Rate limit non-paying users.

Comment · 5 months ago

Time lock encryption oracle that never sees your files and can be used in the browser or terminal with nothing to install (only curl and openssl needed). File encryption format is compatible across both browser and terminal.

Time Lock Encryption Oracle timelock.sh

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Comment · 6 months ago

I'm Alex, founder and CEO of River. I also wrote the first line of code and still ship PRs.

River is a client-first Bitcoin-only financial institution building the financial app people use every day to save in bitcoin and spend in dollars. We custody over 25,000 BTC, serve individuals and businesses across the U.S., and are profitable. We publish cryptographic proof of reserves monthly and our company financials annually.

Here's what our engineering team is working on:

  - Real-time Bitcoin and USD payments, trading, and settlement on an Elixir monolith with a unified GraphQL API
  - Next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing, key ceremonies, and geo-redundant infrastructure
  - Scaling our ML/AI systems (Python, PyTorch, XGBoost, LLMs) to automate operations and tackle fraud/risk
  - A ground-up React and React Native rewrite of our consumer app
  - Porting our Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir

We're hiring:

  - Staff Software Engineer (Elixir) | $200K-$250K
  - Senior Software Engineer (React, Full-stack) | $150K-$220K
  - Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer | $200K-$250K

Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river?utm_source=Zp9nJyqvd4

Comment · 7 months ago

I'm Alex, founder and CEO of River. I also wrote the first line of code and still ship PRs.

Here's what our engineering team is working on:

  - Real-time Bitcoin and USD payments, trading, and settlement on an Elixir monolith with a unified GraphQL API
  - Next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing, key ceremonies, and geo-redundant infrastructure
  - Scaling our ML/AI systems (Python, PyTorch, XGBoost, LLMs) to automate operations and tackle fraud/risk
  - A ground-up React and React Native rewrite of our consumer app
  - Porting our Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir

We're hiring:

  - Senior Software Engineer (React, Full-stack) | $150K-$220K
  - Staff Software Engineer (Elixir) | $200K-$250K
  - Staff Software Engineer (ML/AI) | $200K-$250K

Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river?utm_source=Zp9nJyqvd4

Comment · 9 months ago

What’s controversial is that EU rules force censorship.

Comment · 1 year ago

I'd recommend Obscura because it uses Wireguard over QUIC and it pretty good at avoiding these blocks. It's also open source.

Comment · 1 year ago

Would you agree it’s strictly better than a single provider?

Comment · 1 year ago

There is no perfect solution, but I would argue that a blind relay is very clearly strictly better than the alternative.

Comment · 1 year ago

Actually the top talent wants to work at a company that regularly fires the bottom performers

Comment · 1 year ago