revcbh

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by revcbh 12y ago
Nope, although PartTimeLegend is obviously quite disgruntled for some reason I've never entirely been clear on. Nobody was removed from the project on GitHub for over a year after there was last active development. We only took people
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by revcbh 12y ago
Good catch, thanks.
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by revcbh 12y ago
Yep. That fee is still competitive even if you're just buying and holding, but we're geared more towards traders. We're working with our partners to improve the cost structure so that we don't have to charge deposit fees
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by revcbh 12y ago
I'm one of the founders/CTO. Our main difference from Coinbase is that we have an order book and real-time trading. Coinbase is great for people that want to buy some bitcoin at a fixed price and don't mind waiting a few days
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by revcbh 12y ago
Ha! I wish ChangeTip supported HN.
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by revcbh 12y ago
Yeah, that's basically the idea, probably using some multi-sig protocol. It will never be as fast as our internal ledger though, since I think we'd need to wait for at least one confirmation before funding the trade.
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by revcbh 12y ago
We have been audited by independent security professionals and will continue to undergo frequent security testing (both code reviews and adversarial testing). I'll try to make the results of that more public, since you obviously should
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by revcbh 12y ago
1) Compared to exchanges like Bitstamp, we have US banking relationships and can fund accounts via bank transfer in 1-3 days. Generally, wiring funds internationally is much slower and more expensive. Compared to brokers like Coinbase or Ci
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by revcbh 12y ago
Paul started the effort to build an open source trade engine and had buttercoin.com lying around. We joined up with him a couple of days after he announced the idea and started working on it. Cedric and I already had an interview lined up f
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by revcbh 12y ago
Paul left after a couple of months and hasn't been involved with the project for about a year and a half. None of the design or code is based on the original open source effort which he started. We're not trying to hide history, h
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by revcbh 12y ago
Ha, I'll have to try that. Does it use our icon even if you just navigate to HN directly?
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by revcbh 12y ago
Oops, that's a bug with how we're using Angular. Thanks for pointing it out!
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by revcbh 12y ago
It has to do with banking and regulation. Adding new regions takes a lot of time and effort to get right, but we're working on it.
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by revcbh 12y ago
Yeah, we're working to expand coverage and bank relationships outside of the US. I can't give any specific timeline, but it's one of our highest priorities.
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by revcbh 12y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll try to make it more clear.
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by revcbh 12y ago
We're finally open for anyone to signup, so we're celebrating with free trading. Please write bots, we've got a pretty good API. The open source re-release of the engine is also back up for anyone that wants to play with it:
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Show HN: Buttercoin (YC S13) US Bitcoin Marketplace – Free Trading Through Dec(buttercoin.com)
69 points by revcbh 12y ago|44 comments
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by revcbh 12y ago
This is code derived from the Buttercoin.com codebase for performing order matching. It's MIT licensed and written in Scala. We're starting to let people in from the wait list. If you're interested in playing with our API sen
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Show HN: Buttercoin trade engine(github.com)
7 points by revcbh 12y ago|1 comments
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by revcbh 12y ago
In many cases, Docker can be treated like a more lightweight Vagrant. One important benefit I get is more efficient use of machine resources. Running 5-10 fully virtualized Vagrant instances on my laptop hurts. Running the same number of Do
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by revcbh 13y ago
Yep. The only really-real difference is compile time checking.
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by revcbh 13y ago
Let's use circles and rectangels to motivate some analysis. In Haskell you might define: data Point = Point { x :: Float, y :: Float } deriving(Generic) data Shape = Circle { center :: Point, radius :: Float } | Recta
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by revcbh 13y ago
We don't have state-by-state licenses since we're structured as a service provider. We partner with existing licensed institutions in various countries.
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by revcbh 13y ago
Yes, but there's a limit to the number of jobs posted there and it's currently full.
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by revcbh 13y ago
I really like Haskell, but I'd settle for Rust.