Blockchain.com's team posts company news about its Bitcoin wallet, security disclosures, funding, and protocol changes like SegWit and Ether support.
HN links it as a primary source for company announcements, such as outages, airdrop wind-down, funding, and fork updates.
Blockchain.com | San Francisco & London | Hiring Senior Software Engineers | Senior Level | 140K - 210K + equity | FULLTIME, ONSITE | https://blockchain.com
Here at blockchain.com we've been building products for the digital asset ecosystem since 2011. We started as an open source project and today are a Series B company with a specific focus on growing our Engineering teams in San Francisco and London this year. We have 10 people in the San Francisco office 6 of which is Engineering. Additionally we have around 120 people in our London office across all functions. This is a unique opportunity to join a well funded company with high growth potential (our competitors in the space have 10 - 15 billion dollar valuations). Our Eng priorities this year are to continue to expand the functionality of our suite of products as well as develop one new product later in the year:
Our core wallet product: https://www.blockchain.com/wallet
Our exchange product: https://exchange.blockchain.com/
Our markets product: https://www.blockchain.com/markets
Our api product: https://www.blockchain.com/api
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Investors: Lightspeed Ventures, Virgin Group, Lake Star, Google Ventures among others.
Stack: React/Redux, Java, Kotlin, Kafka
Team backgrounds: Google, Uber, Square, Facebook (~140 people today)
You can read more about us here:
Blog - https://blog.blockchain.com/
Repos - https://github.com/blockchain
Blockchain (Blockchain.com) | San Francisco, New York, London or REMOTE | https://www.blockchain.com
At Blockchain, our mission is to build the software platform that will power the world's open financial future. We are re-engineering money and banking for the Information Age.
Blockchain currently provides the world’s most popular Bitcoin wallet, the most widely used Bitcoin API, and the most trafficked Bitcoin network data platform. We also run The PIT - the world's fastest and most secure cryptocurrency exchange.
We are currently hiring across our Platform, Front End, iOS, Android, Low Latency, Data Services and Data Science teams. You can find details on all opportunities via https://www.blockchain.com/careers
Please let us know that you found us via HN when applying :)
Learn more about us:
https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/blockchain
https://github.com/blockchain
https://blog.blockchain.com/
There was an unintentional fork on August 15, 2010, when "[an] attacker exploited [an] integer overflow bug that permitted an attacker to create several billion bitcoins". [source][0]
There was an unintentional fork on March 12, 2013 caused by previously disallowed number of tx inputs (?) as resolved by [BIP50][1].
[0]: https://blog.blockchain.com/2016/02/26/a-brief-history-of-bitcoin-forks/
[1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawiki
Correct, but they're now winding down the airdrop. You can read more about it here: https://blog.blockchain.com/2019/07/15/airdrops-adoption-whats-ahead/
Announcement here: https://blog.blockchain.com/2018/11/06/we-always-put-users-first-and-now-we-have-125m-ways-to-show-it/
Yes, https://blog.blockchain.com/2014/03/17/current-service-outage/