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Re: Ask HN: What do you do and what's your consulting rate?

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Design blockchain token economic models. Paid in % of total token supply. Prior, consulted on intellectual property strategy $550/hr.

Sorry for all the questions but:

Generally what percentage of the total supply do you get?

Do you have a lockup period?

Are these primarily defi protocols?

Can you disclose what projects you worked on?

Re: Ask HN: What do you do and what's your consulting rate?

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I do occasional consulting in cryptography and security design, and anything related to FreeBSD/EC2. $300/hour with discounts for open source, startups based in Canada, longer engagements, and anything which particularly piques my interest.

$300/hr for your time is a steal.

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I’ve shifted to bidding fixed rate on projects around a defined scope. It’s a lot more work upfront to define a clear statement of work, but it has allowed me to stay above USD$200/hr without customers batting an eye - whereas my rate was consistently a sticking point in negotiations.

My consulting mostly focuses around IT/digital strategy and the work product usually involves connecting together incumbent systems, and sometimes implementing new systems while ensuring they’re deeply interconnected with the rest of an organisation, aligning them closely with biz process, etc. My customer is always a business unit lead so the budget tends to be more aligned with top-line outcomes.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do and what's your consulting rate?

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post #9

I do occasional consulting in cryptography and security design, and anything related to FreeBSD/EC2. $300/hour with discounts for open source, startups based in Canada, longer engagements, and anything which particularly piques my interest.

You could probably charge a good bit more. Our customers are at 14k week rate for good quality pen testing, app sec, device hacking, sec eng, red teams etc.

Edit: and I know friends at big firm with crypto services specialty and they charge a looot more. $400-$500/hr. They stay pretty busy.

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Develop complete products of healthy complexity. Very wide range - enterprise backends, complex multimedia front ends, device control, firmware etc. etc. Located in Toronto, Canada. $100/hr or better say around $200K/year give or take as each contract is rather long term engagement. Typical would be 6-12 month first version with restricting functionality. Year for maturing. Another year support, transition to maintenance team. All in all the average duration is about 3 years.

Every once in a while do hit and run jobs. In this case the highest effective rate was $20K in 3 pure days of work. Some went to a person who got me the gig.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do and what's your consulting rate?

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post #13
post #9

I do occasional consulting in cryptography and security design, and anything related to FreeBSD/EC2. $300/hour with discounts for open source, startups based in Canada, longer engagements, and anything which particularly piques my interest.

$300/hr for your time is a steal.

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