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2x liquidation is not standard anymore - 1x is far more likely. This was an "up" acquisition too so it's possible they exceeded 2x for most if not all investors.

It's not a down acquisition

Zelle and Wepay have nothing in common - you may be remembering Wepay's old business.

Sources say it's north of a $220m acquisition - I mean I know that's not a home run but I'm also pretty certain it's not a nothing outcome at all.

These kinds of transfers point out two things to me: - (obvious) the ridiculousness of wealth accumulation. This is over-discussed so I won't further that discussion. - The critica…

http://truffleframework.com/tutorials/ Not sure the Ethereum network can even deploy in 120 minutes these days, but you'll certainly have it built in that time :)

Compiled these resources while building my first smart contract. I can't promise they're the best, but I can promise I built something that works following these resources + learne…

If you think you could actually sell for $12m-$14m do it and don't look back, even if you get to the $400m sale you may not even make that much personally. But be wary - companies …

Every headline from Techcrunch disrupt that I have seen has been directly contradicted in some way in the video. For example, Vitalik Buterin spends about 10% of his talk explainin…

Good lord this is an outstanding comment

Equifax makes their partners have a fully implemented and tested patch management program and audits annually (or via a third party) that you stick to it, making this situation eve…

I could be extremely wrong about this, but I doubt they've spent the majority of that money. I think they're likely to be giving it back to avoid shareholder unpleasantness and see…

I think there are just certain scenarios it may not support, like at one point writing queries in the editor for JSONB fields in Postgres was either hard or impossible, things like…

It's great and IMO pretty damn mature. They use it widely in prod at Airbnb so the only ways in which it's not "mature" are in customizability.

Exactly right. Especially the last two points are important: no mirrors by default and depends which nodes copy and cache your files. The big challenge ahead for them is how to get…

Sorry just to be clear - you can literally not use IPFS for storage, it doesn't "have" memory or compute or anything. It's a protocol.

Think about running your own Superset instance. Could be the solution and IMO it's much better than Tableau.

Great questions, and not to be unnecessarily pedantic, but IPFS is not a method of storage. IPFS is a replacement for HTTP and has a lot of attractive qualities and works in produc…

FWIW I did a similar test with IPFS recently and had no problems and it worked phenomenally. I know people have issues with Filecoin (IPFS's native token) and I myself am confused …

The entire point of my comment was to say that while I would generally be considered a "pro-government liberal", I do NOT trust "big government" and prefer to see power be more dif…

I mentioned that I'm uncomfortable with how few companies have so much control. It's far better now than it was in the pre-Trust-busting days, for sure. However, it's trending the …

I agree, in that it sucks that it's a literal handful, but on the flip side it's nice to know the government is set up in such a way that it isn't by default the most powerful enti…

Paypal's white label product was unusable (literally for some companies). Their banking relationships did not need to be better than Paypal's to have a better white labeled, develo…