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by mifeng 9y ago
Note that I conditioned the advice with "if you want to buy this Coinbase index fund." The fund only has those 4 coins.
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by mifeng 9y ago
Edit: don't do this on coinbase, buy on GDAX instead (same login as coinbase)
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by mifeng 9y ago
If you want to buy this Coinbase index fund, just do this: 1. Log into Coinbase 2. Buy [BTC, ETH, BCC, LTC] with [62%, 27%, 7%, 4%] weights 3. Check back in one year and rebalance That's it! As an added bonus, you just avoided 2% fees
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by mifeng 9y ago
I bet Coinbase makes more money from their exchange (GDAX) which does $1 billion each day in volume. While limit orders are free, market orders cost 0.25% of transaction value.
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How a Blockchain-Based Fund Works(medium.com)
5 points by mifeng 9y ago|0 comments
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by mifeng 9y ago
Since contracts are immutable, you need modularity to be able to fix bugs like what happened with Parity. The problem is that Solidity libraries are also immutable, which means you can't fix them. The solution is easy: just use contrac
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The Decentralized Investment Bank(medium.com)
19 points by mifeng 9y ago|2 comments
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by mifeng 9y ago
I was wondering how Coda differed from Quip, et al, but this article makes me pretty excited about it. As someone who used to spend all day in Excel and VBA, there's definitely room for a new "light coding" platform.
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by mifeng 9y ago
I thought EDGAR was only used to disclose public securities filings. What's the big deal?
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by mifeng 9y ago
In my limited and non-lawyer understanding, that's not the SEC's modus operandi for investigations like this. They want to leave themselves room to study the market and issue definitive guidance later. Also, these investigations
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by mifeng 9y ago
I predict that CoinList will create some type of exchange only for accredited investors and use an SPV to exceed 99 investor limit.
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by mifeng 9y ago
If you read the actual report ( https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf ), you may notice that the SEC is careful to apply securities law DAO specifically. In particular, they apply the security te
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by mifeng 9y ago
When you raise a round >$500k, talk to potential lead investors before anyone else. Defer all conversations with investors who do not lead. Ask investors before taking a meeting if they lead. If they don't or say that do and stil
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by mifeng 9y ago
I find it hard to write tests when I'm still formulating the logic of how a problem should be solved. For money-based logic in Solidity, I now like to model it in MS Excel first, write code afterwards, and then finally tests.
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by mifeng 9y ago
Unit tests do help, and they are relatively easy in Truffle, the most used JS framework for Solidity. I guess I need to move to more of a TDD style than I'm used to.
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by mifeng 9y ago
Thank you for succinctly summarizing all my frustrations with Solidity. I am developing a fairly complex smart contract (i.e. not a crowdsale) and it's fucking painful. Trivial computations that would take less than an hour to do in
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by mifeng 9y ago
I understand what you're saying, but are other paths besides being born with a silver spoon. My family was on food stamps when I was a kid. After college, I worked for a long time in finance before joining the tech industry 7 years ag
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by mifeng 9y ago
It's like asking why HTML hasn't been replaced. The business value needs to be greater than the switching costs for both publishers and consumers. However, as someone who spent the last 5 years working for PDF companies, I predic
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by mifeng 9y ago
> because “engagement” is the metric, Facebook inevitably selects for the shocking and the outrageous. Anecdotally, I've noticed this myself. Anything I post that's related to politics get lots of likes and comments, while it&
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Facebook is broken(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mifeng 9y ago|2 comments
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by mifeng 9y ago
For many years, startups have exploited the opacity of potential outcomes to trick employees into thinking that their equity is worth more than it likely is. A couple of years ago, I asked AngelList's CTO if I could utilize their data
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by mifeng 9y ago
Are those just prediction markets or is there something else to them? I remember there was a site called TradeSports everyone was excited about in the early 2000s. It's problem was that there was very little liquidity for any bet othe
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by mifeng 9y ago
I used the internet in '95. It was awesome: I played Trade Wars with my friends. I received and sent email with Juno. I chatted with random strangers on BBSes (a few were super weird, but whatevs). Despite the limited options and th
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by mifeng 9y ago
>For building AI tools, it’s like the difference between a command line interface and a modern desktop OS. What does that even mean?
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Google’s Seurat Aims to Bring ‘Desktop-Level Graphics’ to Mobile VR(uploadvr.com)
3 points by mifeng 9y ago|0 comments
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A Slow Merge for Truck Automation(linkedin.com)
1 points by mifeng 9y ago|0 comments
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by mifeng 9y ago
CMU was also the first school to offer a masters in Financial Engineering in the mid-2000s.
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by mifeng 9y ago
Check out outlier.ai. Also I think there was a company in the most recent YC batch that tackled this problem.
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by mifeng 9y ago
While this site has some great info for non-technical folk who are serious about learning AI, I think the site will fly over the heads of most "line-of-business leaders" at whom it's aimed. In my experience, those folks think
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by mifeng 9y ago
International money transfer is indeed a big problem, and TransferWise has built a billion-dollar company over the past 6 years solving it, just not with blockchain.

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