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Maybe they got so rich from the high crypto valuations that most of the senior team are on their private islands already?
Never, ever, not ever... Run major updates to production... Near a weekend. Surely they're not going to complete the go-live later today are they?? I'm assuming of course all of this as been heavily tested on test networks for a couple weeks... and of course this is just some deployment issue... (Sarcasm)
If you have the people available, then weekends are best, because it's usually a lower impact for end users.
For those wondering, Kraken is a Bitcoin exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken_(bitcoin_exchange)
MtGox, Kraken, Coinbase who trusts them? e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16123496
17 hours ago it was on HN briefly, before it got flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16127180
[Edit: Oh the irony, this news vanished as well from the frontpage. Who wants to hide it this time? ]
Never, ever, not ever... Run major updates to production... Near a weekend. Surely they're not going to complete the go-live later today are they?? I'm assuming of course all of this as been heavily tested on test networks for a couple weeks... and of course this is just some deployment issue... (Sarcasm)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It appears that we are at the mercy of mentally unstable amateurs.
You have to differentiate between the social media person and the actual engineers.
This team is in over their heads. If you don’t have stateless infrastructure with a big red “oops, this isnt right, rollback” button – you’re doing it wrong. Read the reviews of their iPhone app on the App Store. They are not equipped to be running a financial company. Bummer because I’m looking to leave Coinbase. Looks like everyone in this space is nerf-grade.
I wish them the best, it must be very stressful for an update to go this south. Their founder Jesse reached out to us in the past and I got a good impression from him. Maybe they got so rich from the high crypto valuations that most of the senior team are on their private islands already?
They erased this glorious status update: > I fell asleep at my desk. In a dream, the ghost of a butterfly from the future whispered to me "the dollar hit 0 bitcoin". I wake up, people around me dabbing the blood from their eyes. Progress has been made but not enough. I crack my whip -- "we aren't getting to zero like this!". The flogging will continue until morale improves. Expect another update after I make my round…
I moved all my coins off of there a few weeks later, because it was becoming impossible to get a buy or sell order in.
In other words, to users of the site, this isn't surprising. :(