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Re:Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers on Thursday May 14, 2026 @12:13AM (#48131025)
wow this is kind of sick
Built a version of this for companies that want to move keys to Apple Wallet: accessgrid.com
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @02:32AM (#43818254)
https://www.accessgrid.com/ - The best way to issue and manage secure NFC credentials for Apple and Google Wallet via API.

No app required!

We took all of the complexity of issuing MIFARE DESFire enabled NFC credentials and made it extremely developer friendly. SDKs in most major languages (python, ruby, csharp, js, etc), developer console with request logs, and more.

Re:Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today on Friday January 24, 2025 @11:40AM (#42814819)
Lets gooooooo!! Congrats man!
Re:Bench Accounting Acquired by Employer.com on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:11PM (#42553575)
Your free BOI filing (even if you don't want to use Pilot) is why I use Pilot.
Here you go: https://github.com/kormax/apple-vas

If you can send/receive APDUs you're good to go.

Re:Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location on Monday December 05, 2022 @01:08PM (#33869268)
I'd say that crypto is not exactly gray area. But I am biased.
Co-founder of QuickNode here. Happy to answer any questions!
Re:My First Impressions of Web3 on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:58PM (#29848498)
I think he makes legit points:

1. NFT spec is flimsy at best

2. We trust output from ETH nodes inherently

3. Most of the user facing clients for Web3 are decentralized

4. Power is easily rolled up into convenience providers like QuickNode

but I think something that is (perhaps conveniently missed) is that there is A LOT of power in having decentralized / censorship-resistant state - this is the thing that makes DeFi a real threat to orgs like exchanges and banks. They can't force people to have a certain amount of capital to trade derivatives or have a certain credit profile to borrow, the system is permissionless and the API is open 24/7.

That's pretty remarkable IMO and I think that sort of permissionless is likely to be used for very compelling things in the future, NFTs aside.

Also one thing that he notes but doesn't quite provide a solution for but I'm betting will exist in the near future is a markup language to map UI components to smart contract functions/views.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021) on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:30AM (#28388947)
QuickNode | Full Stack (1) or Go (3) Engineers | Full-time | US Remote or Miami, FL

Our mission is to help blockchain ecosystems scale, by providing accessible core infrastructure.

We make it simple to power your blockchain applications and scale up as you grow. From elastic APIs & dedicated nodes, to powerful tools & analytics, all at your command through a simple control panel.

We're hiring software engineers to work on our core network platform and web interface. In the network platform, we're largely Go. On the web interface side, you'd be working in Rails with some of the best tooling (Sorbet, StimulusReflex, etc). We've got decent tooling in place to make our code approachable - but we need more.

See open positions and specific descriptions here: https://hire.clarify.so/company/quiknode-inc

To be fair, I'm a 35 year Florida resident and this summer has been exceptionally nice. It is usually crazy hot and humid by this time.
Hey! Are you in Miami by chance!?
Re:The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:14PM (#26051733)
> The issue is that deferred prosecutions shouldn't be offered to anyone, instead of as yourself and parent imply, being offered to this guy. In this case the system worked, in the others, it needs to be adjusted.

If it is offered to others, it should be offered here. Let's keep people out of cages.

Wrote this - happy to answer any Q’s. Thanks @Jorslu for submitting.
Feel like this article is thin on people moving to Miami, so here's a short thread of people ID'd as moving to Miami in just the last seven days: https://twitter.com/bunsen/status/1335735136277688329
I believe they will, given the current Keith Rabois as a mentor.
Re:Is the US Banning Crypto Wallets? on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:02PM (#25284823)
I disagree, if this is passed, everybody break it and call your congress person / senators and complain that it was passed.

disclaimer: also not a lawyer.

Re:Ethereum 2.0 launches on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:21PM (#25270048)
Re:Banks, QE, and Money-Printing on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:40AM (#25032252)
I understood that part, what I'm saying is that why can't market forces correct that?
Re:Banks, QE, and Money-Printing on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:16AM (#24979323)
Yeah this part had me baffled:

“ In other words, while it’s possible for an individual bank to boost its reserves by selling assets to raise capital, it’s mechanically impossible for the entire banking industry to collectively raise its reserves industry-wide.”

Why not? I have confidence people would rally together to buy distressed bank assets at rock bottom prices.

This! Mice are not quite the same as humans.
Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:15PM (#24385636)
bitcoin does though
Re:Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:22AM (#24241795)
@tptacek if this is an "and":

> premised on IANA handing over control of the DNS AND that hand over is to a premined cryptocurrency network so they can resell it?

Then not as far as I can tell.

If it's or, then yes. It looks like there is a 15% pre-mine: https://handshake.org/files/handshake.txt

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