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Coinbase Offers Severance Package to Employees Unsatisfied With ‘Apolitical’ Mission
30.9.2020
Coinbase's CEO has issued a company-wide letter informing employees to get in line with a new cultural shift or take a severance package
Coinbase Has Drawn a Line in the Sand for Its Activist Employees
29.9.2020
Is Brian Armstrong right to eschew corporate activism for a focus on the "mission"?
BitPay decides to let all employees work from home permanently
15.9.2020
Crypto seems to thrive on remote work
US Sanctions Russians Allegedly Using Cryptocurrency to Influence Presidential Election
12.9.2020
The U.S. has sanctioned several Russian nationals, a Ukrainian lawmaker, and their cryptocurrency addresses for interfering with the country’s electoral process. The Russians are allegedly employees of a troll factory that previously targeted presidential candidates. Operations to Interfere...
Crypto Exchange Currency.com Offers Belarus Employees Vilnius Escape Route
10.9.2020
Crypto companies may look to exit Belarus as political unrest deepens in the EU's Eastern neighbor, usurped by "the last dictator in Europe" Alexander Lukashenko.
Per TUT.by, the Minsk-based Currency.com platform, which claims to be the world's first regulated tokenized securities...
Troubled Crypto AG successor reportedly dismisses 70 employees
28.8.2020
Unfortunate "crypto" brand name causes the company to shut down
Google Pulls Work from BPO Whose Employees Was Involved in Bitcoin Scam
23.8.2020
Don’t use your workplace to scam people
1,000 People Had Access to Twitter ‘God Mode’ — 130 Accounts Targeted by Hackers
25.7.2020
More than 1,000 Twitter employees and contractors reportedly had access to Twitter’s “God mode” earlier this year, before the recent large-scale hack that saw many high-profile accounts tweet about a bitcoin giveaway. Twitter has confirmed that 130 accounts were targeted,...
Telecom Argentina S.A Hit by Major Ransomware Attack, Criminals Demand $7.5M Worth of Monero
21.7.2020
Telecom Argentina S.A has been hit by a ransomware attack and the cyber-criminals are demanding $7.5 million paid in the privacy coin monero. The Spanish language site, elperiodista.com quotes anonymous employees stating that the attack started last Wednesday. Initially thought to be a small...
Abra Crypto App Charged by SEC for Transactions Affecting Thousands of US Stock and ETF Purchases
13.7.2020
Abra cryptocurrency app has been charged by two U.S. regulators: the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The company has agreed to cease-and-desist orders as well as fines. The SEC says Abra’s employees “effected thousands...
Revolut Confirms Firing 62 Employees in the Wake of Coronavirus
5.6.2020
London-based tech startup Revolut confirmed its employee downsizing numbers
Revolut Reportedly Fires Dozens of Employees for Coronavirus Cost-Saving Reasons
4.6.2020
European startup Revolut reportedly asked employees to leave as part of a cost-cutting effort amid difficult times
Mining Hardware Maker Canaan Looks to Issue $12.4M in Stock to Employees
1.6.2020
Cryptocurrency mining ASIC producer Canaan filed with the U.S. SEC to issue around $12.4 million worth of shares to its employees
Bitmain Cofounder Allegedly Expelled – Could Face Litigation for Operation Interference
27.5.2020
One of the largest ASIC mining manufacturers worldwide, Bitmain, has allegedly ousted cofounder Micree Zhan. Regional reports note that he’s been threatened with litigation if he interferes with company operations. According to two local announcements written in Chinese, Bitmain has warned...
Bitwage and Gemini Partner to Launch Bitcoin-Based Retirement Plan for Employees
27.5.2020
Cryptocurrency payroll service Bitwage has announced the launch of a Bitcoin 401 (k) plan, allowing companies to give their employees a BTC-based retirement plan. In a press statement, Bitwage, which claims to have tested the product on its own employees for 10 months, said workers now have...
Coinbase Will Allow Employees to Work Remotely After Lockdown
21.5.2020
Coinbase will transition to a permanent “remote-first” future after the quarantine is over
BlockFi: Hacker Sim-Swapped Employee’s Phone, No Funds Were Lost
19.5.2020
The hacker compromised an employee's phone and gained access to users' personal information, including their names and addresses, but BlockFi says no funds were affected
Crypto Forensics Firm TokenAnalyst Shuts Down, Some Employees Hired by Coinbase
5.5.2020
TokenAnalyst is shutting down after 2.5 years of operations, with some employees moving on to new roles at Coinbase
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
18.4.2020
Interesting research from Dan Luu:
… it’s pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valuation and it’s not uncommon for my blog to get an order of magnitude more traffic.
I think this is...
Factom’s Two Employees Press On Despite Lead Investor’s Call to Liquidate
10.4.2020
Factom, Inc. cut 80 percent of its 10-person staff. “The protocol is going to run whether Factom, Inc. continues or not,” said COO Jay Smith