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andrecronje.medium.com
Personal blog · andrecronje.medium.comeconomicsstartups
andrecronje.medium.com is a personal blog at andrecronje.medium.com about economics and startups. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andre Cronje's Medium posts on crypto projects such as Fantom, token design and his own statements on testing. One commenter singles out the Fantom post for its transparency.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
So yeah, it places a bet on augur, buying as many shares as it can for "no trump wont be elected" which are currently around 90c and will resolve to $1 in January when biden is sworn in. The reason it isnt $1 yet is because some people are buying the other side of the market for whatever reason. It seems like an obvious bet really, so the strategy is to pool everyones money, take the bet, and then after the market r…
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on “Ethereum 2.0 launches”Submitted The rise and fall of crypto culture as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSounds like you've misquoted/mischaracterized him in your link. "“Test in prod”, I have come to regret this statement, anyone that has listened to some of my interviews, will know I have this statement so that people use caution. It exists to deter people from just using systems without investigation. It does NOT mean that I don’t test... [goes onto explain 5 stages of testing]." https://andrecronje.medium.com/unpac…
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on “Cronje Quits Crypto, Abandons Fantom, Yearn Finance”Submitted Not So Smart Contracts as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI already got exactly what I wanted out of BAT: a token with a good incentive structure that has supported a business(Brave) with a hockey-sticking userbase. Brave got its initial financing through VC rounds, but the token represents one of the most successful outcomes of the ICO mania. There are some original vested-escrow models currently being pushed in the DeFi token space. It's still unproven, but the term "ve(…
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on “Will Tokens Replace Equity?”Submitted Fantom: An inside financial peek of a “crypto company” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEthereum's main competitive advantage is having a leader like Vitalik. Another leader but an order of magnitude less known is Andre Cronje from Fantom. It worths a read (so much transparency in a crypto company is unusual): https://andrecronje.medium.com/fantom-an-inside-financial-pe...
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on “What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me”