For what it is worth, enterprise DLT vendors as a whole did a very poor job managing expectations the past couple of years (which Imentionedin a recent interview). And they certainly had their own PR campaigns during the past couple of years too, there is no denying that. Someone should ...
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These traders became known as Treasure Island because they made around $20 million a year each just for sitting in a chair and picking up a phone. There would be one bank on the line, and the ICAP trader’s job was to find another bank to complete the swap trade. The amount of ...
Alex Heath, a reporter for The Verge,tweetedthat he was "[h]earing Twitter has fewer than a dozen employees left working on consumer product and design. A real exercise in tearing a company down to the studs." It is now 98 days since Elon Musksaid that...
but now I’m confident I’d do an ever better job at something everyone could enjoy. I have the creative outlet to make something of my own, which helps to keep those urges at bay should a localization project come up. There is a time and a place for everything, and from all this...
Being known for those things and having people talk about those things are enough to keep us relevant. And when you think about whose job this is, remember that most of the people who made Ruby so famous in the first place don't write Ruby anymore. ...
At some point, a man at the other end of the table began bragging loudly about a cryptocurrency called “Let’s Go” or “Let’s Go Brandon,” a slogan that, through an almost inexplicable memeification process, had come to stand for “Fuck Joe Biden” among Trump supporters. The man,...
Launched in 2014,Coinalityis a job matching website that connects employers with prospective employees with the idea that they’d be compensated in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and dogecoin. Fun fact: Coinality is one of the few companies IinterviewedforGreat Chain of Numbersthat is still al...
The first movers were Litecoin, Namecoin, Peercoin, and a parody token known as Dogecoin based on an internet meme. Several issues with this: (1) Why did the authors use uppercase for four cryptocurrencies instead of lowercase? (2) A second edition should probably arrange the first ...
Zachary Caceres has a very interesting project going on with SCI and had lots of good written feedback for me. Mark DeWeaver (who wrote the foreword to my previous book) did a good job playing the devil’s advocate about policies in China. He provided realism among the hype. Stephan Kins...