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you are issued equity in the form of stock options. Stock options give you the opportunity to buy stock in the company at a specific "strike price" enshrined as the fair market val…

This isn't true. Company executives don't owe a fiduciary duty to employees or holders of stock options in a company, they only owe a fiduciary duty to concrete shareholders. There…

what happens if the founders subsequently run the company into the ground, having personally enriched themselves off their employees work, who they then destroyed the upside for? s…

It's also wrong because it's not the founders work in isolation that is providing the liquidity opportunity in the first place. The entire purpose of a joint-stock company is to al…

you don't need the same voting rights, for example

I'm not sure if you even need the same class of stock as it is needing some assurance of the same liquidity rights as founders. If the company charter ensured that any secondary li…

The company is Phantom, and the VCs are Paradigm.

The situation I recently went through reads like a horror story: > was the founding engineer at a startup, essentially do co-founder work for 18 months getting the company off the …

Another fun fact re: Dustin Moskovitz Dustin was an early investor in Alameda Research and was also one of the biggest donors to Mind the Gap -- Sam's mom's Super PAC. When SBF was…

I second everyone saying the paywall is the actual problem. I used to write on Medium a lot because it was a simple way to blog and share essays with a minimalist UI. Now it just f…

because the hiring process is on autopilot and the leadership of the company has already exited / checked out so they're not incentivized to care or be in the weeds enough to preem…

pretty sure i pumped and dumped some coins on bitrex back in the day.

You can export the chaindata at any time and run geth on another OS, AWS is just a convenience because it's easy to spin up and easy to devops. It costs $300/month to run, I'm usin…

AWS offers a hosted Ethereum node service now. It's pretty simple to set up. I would be glad to walk you through it for $1,000.

A good article by Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, on "credible neutrality" as a guiding principle for the protocol: https://nakamoto.com/credible-neutrality/ Twitter has …

1. Money Laundering: If you made money from a pump and dump or something otherwise nefarious that you want to convert back to USD and explain away, a good way is to mint digital ar…

It's only an anecdote but I used to buy Adderall on Libertas, which was a Monero-only drug market, seemed to work pretty well and solved a real world problem for me.

this sounds cool, do you have a video of it somewhere?

I always got the sense that Mao's genocides are more visceral in the West because of the large Chinese immigrant population that lives in the US.

Something I find interesting is that they're adding built-in entropy to this update. You will now be able to set the probability that a MIDI note will fire in a melody. Or set a ra…

I think there's a fairly common story that goes like: two people, founders, spend a few months hacking on an idea together, without getting paid, build a functional MVP, run a beta…

that's a great reading list, thank you for doing this.

haha surveillance state go brrrr

I used to make MIDI maps of songs in Ableton and then record myself singing along to it. The I would use the "convert audio melody to MIDI" command and get a MIDI map of my audio r…

Possibly unrelated but I would pay $ for a one-click earnings call app. Type in a stock ticker, get the most recent earnings call in an audio player in one second.