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by wc- 9y ago
Yes, decentralized exchanges (dex) are coming and I'm very hopeful. However, the ones I have looked at / tested so far just aren't ready for primetime. Slow transaction times, lackluster user experience, no liquidity. But th
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by wc- 9y ago
Yes, very familiar with finex and the bitfinexed guy's warnings / rants / whatever you want to call them. If counterparty risk is a top concern (and it probably should be) then don't trade on unlicensed exchanges... Tha
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by wc- 9y ago
This comment is almost like a copy-paste every time some kind of crypto trading article is submitted. I might have missed something in the article / code but this isn't an arb strat? It is just using some moving averages to try
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by wc- 9y ago
Just like in traditional markets there are all kinds of applications. Some devs might be building tools to assist human traders, some might be working on market making / liquidity providing, some might be working on execution algos fo
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by wc- 9y ago
This is a decent first-steps guide into analyzing historical trading data. With resources like Quandl, QuantConnect, etc continuing to improve, hopefully we will see more and more people diving into the data. That being said, the "tod
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by wc- 9y ago
What you are saying makes total sense and seems reasonable but the reality is the books don't need the sharp action and don't really care about having a perfectly even balance. They will make more money just letting squares fire
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by wc- 9y ago
Ok sure, show both then, the maker rebate on some exchanges will open up more opportunities. All I want is just one "arb opportunity dashboard" to show the whole picture so people don't think they can deposit some btc and sta
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by wc- 9y ago
Pretty cool site, thanks for showing it. Are you plugged into each exchange's API or using an aggregator? Taker fees should be shown on all of these potential cross exchange arbs. Exchange withdrawal fees should be presented somewher
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by wc- 9y ago
Move your time scales way down and it becomes pretty useful.
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by wc- 9y ago
Via the OTC trading desks and somewhat private brokers that would be open to you with $300m worth of btc, you would have no problem liquidating $25m or more per day at the current ask. This would require extremely minimal effort, a skype c
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by wc- 9y ago
Exigent Capital | Chicago | Data Scientists, Python/Go Engineers | Full-time | REMOTE or ONSITE Market Making / HFT group focused on cryptocurrency markets. Looking for quant / data scientists to find new edges in the market
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by wc- 9y ago
Copying my post from the who's hiring thread to here. Always been a fan of SC and clearly there were a ton of talented people working there. If you are anywhere along the spectrum of data scientist to data engineer and interested in
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by wc- 9y ago
These positions are open to remote candidates! The original post was incorrect and cannot be edited anymore.
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by wc- 9y ago
Under the radar for now | Chicago | Blockchain Engineers | Full-time, Contract | Onsite We are building a global charity and microdonation platform without the overhead found in traditional charity organizations using smart contracts. If yo
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by wc- 9y ago
Exigent Capital | Chicago | Data Scientists, Engineers | Full-time | Onsite Market Making / HFT group focused on cryptocurrency markets. Looking for quant / data scientists to find new edges in the market and talented Go/Pyt
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by wc- 9y ago
It seems like a lot of the teams and companies working in this space are pretty open to remote work. I'll be making a post in tomorrow's who's hiring thread for July if you are interested!
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by wc- 9y ago
It is important to clarify that buying one of these tokens does not result in you owning a 'share' or a percentage of the company that issued them. Some lawyers are using this lack of ownership as a critical part of their argumen
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by wc- 9y ago
[Cryptocurrency] isn't a "Ponzi scheme". Even if you believe that investing in [Cryptocurrency] makes no sense, and it's a useless [tech] with no practical purposes, and it's a bubble waiting to burst and so on, tha
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by wc- 9y ago
Given the proper completion of AML / KYC processes liquidating 1m and withdrawing is pretty painless (although I wouldn't recommend a single market sell) on the major US exchanges. If the cryptocurrency markets interest anyone her
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by wc- 9y ago
If you open an account with Gemini (large, legitimate US-based exchange) and go through their standard AML / KYC processes they will do unlimited USD wire transfers, both incoming and outgoing, for either personal or institutional acco
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by wc- 10y ago
Thanks, my current plan is to price out those two options.
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Ask HN: Self-employed healthcare options?
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by wc- 10y ago
I'd change the title to: "Have your MVP publicly facing within 15 minutes with Serverless." IMO takes a lot more care, planning, and implementation details before I'd consider something a truly prod env.
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by wc- 10y ago
On one hand I think price transparency is nice to see. But on the other hand this really is a consulting business, they are tough to run, and there might be something important to learn from why consultants do not publicly list prices. The
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by wc- 10y ago
Digital H2O | Experienced Front-End Engineer | Chicago, IL | FULL TIME, ONSITE, http://www.digitalh2o.com/ Digital H2O, a water-focused SaaS company, is looking for talented software engineers to join us in building product
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by wc- 10y ago
+EV Solutions | Senior Python Programmer and DevOps Engineer | Anywhere, Chicago | REMOTE, CONTRACT, PART-TIME Offering contract, part-time, and potentially full time remote work for experienced python programmer to develop software to auto
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by wc- 10y ago
It's been a few years since I took the tour, but I think the staff largely did just kind of get up and walk away. People stuck around for a few days but slowly stopped showing up as they realized there wasn't any need to hide in
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by wc- 10y ago
I guess I was responding to the parent with ideas and links to use 'in case of emergency'. It isn't trivial, but some of these tools in conjunction with AWS make it possible to do alone, which I think is pretty cool. Aler
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by wc- 10y ago
If you are just using heroku to run a process it is pretty easy to rebuild on AWS. Here is one fairly solid guide: http://blog.clearbit.com/ec2-heroku/ Depending on what language you are using google's app engine
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by wc- 10y ago
Someone more familiar with this than me feel free to correct me here, but this is my basic understanding: If you think of your bitcoins as following a path from address to address, the pruning process would retain the final node or two on t

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