lukebp

Hack Reactor grad here and former civil engineer. My raise was $40k and I came from a fairly high paying job relative to the rest of the civil engineers I knew. If I had come from an average civil engineering salary the raise would have been more along the lines of $55-$60k.

Could ethereum be used to create verifiable transparency in investment funds? Something that would prevent fraud, such as the Bernie Madoff ponzie scheme, from occurring.

> Even YC thinks of the whole thing as a game (if you followed the snapchat thing)

I don't understand this line of thinking. Snapchat is emerging as one of the largest content platforms out there. The Snapchat pitch competition is simply a way to reach a broader audience. I have been watching the pitches daily and a large number of them have turned out to be substantive, high quality pitches. It's also a great way for young founders to learn about pitching a startup.