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Consensys
Company blog · consensys.net/blog · on HN as meshianprogrammingbusiness
Consensys is the company blog at consensys.net, writing about programming and business. Since 2015, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 101 times, most often “Ethereum Could Turn on Proof of Stake Sooner Than We Anticipate”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Consensys blog and use-case pages as background reading on Ethereum, proof-of-stake energy use and blockchain use cases. Most comments on these pages are job postings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Consensys is a blockchain software company building the tools, infrastructure and research that power the new Era of Decentralized Finance, for a more secure and open economy
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-01
- /blog/press-release/metamask-surpasses-10-million-maus-making-it-the-worlds-leading-non-custodial-crypto-wallet/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-06
- Ethereum Could Turn on Proof of Stake Sooner Than We Anticipate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-11
- Send Money Using Python (Web3.py)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-19
- /open-positions/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-01
What Hacker News says?
I know that Consensys (who is looking to hire hundreds of engineers https://consensys.net/open-positions/ ) is working on a special smart contract language that would be easy for lawyers to learn. The language compiles into EVM bytecode.
Comment linking /open-positions/
on “What Is Ethereum?”Submitted How We Proved the Eth2 Deposit Contract Is Free of Runtime Errors as a story · 179 points
HN discussionMetamask is built by ConsenSys, the largest (and oldest?) company developing on Ethereum, and was founded by Joe Lubin (co-founder of Ethereum). In my book that's not too far off from an "official" ethereum wallet. https://consensys.net/about/
Comment linking /about/
on “Ethereum 2.0 launches”Submitted Ethereum Solidity Available in Microsoft Visual Studio [pdf] as a story · 95 points
HN discussionMetaMask | 100% REMOTE (North and South America, Western Europe) | Full Time | | Senior Software Engineer MetaMask aims to democratize access to the decentralized web. We are pursuing this mission through our desktop browser extension and mobile app, both of which enable millions of users and builders to work with the Ethereum blockchain. We are looking for our next teammate, a Senior Software Engineer who can bring…
Comment linking /open-roles/2261618/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Blockchain pilot to test decentralised solutions for crisis response [pdf] as a story · 20 points
HN discussionPegaSys Engineering | Blockchain Protocol Engineer, QA, Researcher, Ops & Strategy, PM | Remote; Brooklyn / Brisbane | http://pegasys.tech/ Pegasys just open sourced our Apache 2.0 licensed, Java Based Ethereum Client at devcon 4. Come join us as we build towards the Enterprise Ethereum 2.0 spec and Serenity feature set. We are looking for engineers, bizdev, QA, and more: https://consensys.net/open-roles/?discipline…
Comment linking /open-roles/?discipline=41276
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted FarmShare: Blockchain CommunitySupported Agriculture [pdf] as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSurprised that there hasn't been a mention of how the merge to Ethereum 2.0, PoS will reduce energy consumption by 99%. A great background article going into some of the details here https://consensys.net/blog/ethereum-2-0/proof-of-stake-is-co...
Comment linking /blog/ethereum-2-0/proof-of-stake-is-coming-to-ethereum-sooner-than-we-think/
on “Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack”Submitted Send Money Using Python (Web3.py) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionConsenSys | Senior Software Engineer | Boulder CO, New York NY | REMOTE https://consensys.net/ Looking for senior engineer to work with me on the open source ecosystem of python tools for Ethereum. The ideal candidate is self directed and will take the initiative to learn. This doesn't mean you won't get any support but you do need to be self motivated. The following are nice-to-have knowledge and skills. * Python *…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Imogen Heap Releases “Tiny Human” on Ethereum blockchain built by ConsenSys [pdf] as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNice link thanks. Yea 30M is still small now, it's the rate of adoption that matters. Metamask was at 2M users at the start of 2021, hit 10M at the end of August ( https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/metamask-surpasses-... ) and then 30M in March 2022 ( https://decrypt.co/95039/metamask-consensys-30-million-users ) And this is just one crypto wallet, there are a handful of others too. It will probably slow duri…
Comment linking /blog/press-release/metamask-surpasses-10-million-maus-making-it-the-worlds-leading-non-custodial-crypto-wallet/
on “Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn”Submitted Microsoft partners with ConsenSys offering Ethereum Blockchain services (E BaaS) [pdf] as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt's comically complicated once you get into the details of moving an existing chain over from PoW; the Ethereum developers have really been working on it for years and only now have it in a shape that works for multiple Ethereum clients on a shared test network. If PoW weren't a climate disaster it would have very obvious appeal due to its orders of magnitude simpler implementation. Edit: You can learn more here --…
Comment linking /blog/news/the-state-of-the-merge-an-update-on-ethereums-merge-to-proof-of-stake-in-2022/
on “Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations”Submitted Ethereum Could Turn on Proof of Stake Sooner Than We Anticipate as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAre you suggesting that Consensys, Microsoft, R3CEV and Red Hat are only developing on Ethereum because of clever marketing? There isn't some technical merit to the platform that means they are doing this? Why didn't these companies develop their products on Bitcoin? Are they incapable of due diligence in this space? https://consensys.net/ http://www.blockapps.net/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/ethereum-blo…
Comment linking /static/blockappsRedhat.pdf
on “Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer”Submitted Eth2Signer Is Now Web3Signer and Will Integrate with Filecoin's Lotus Client as a story · 4 points
HN discussionConsensys | Senior Ethereum Developer/Researcher | Remote | Full-time preferred Magmo is a 100% remote team at Consensys Mesh, focusing on Ethereum state channels research and implementation. State channels ( https://statechannels.org/ ) are a L2 blockchain scaling tool that enables peers to execute many blockchain transactions involving a fixed set of peers, at a fixed cost -- after some initial setup, transactions…
Comment linking /open-roles/2510553/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted Ethereum Hackathon Survival Guide for 2020 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionConsenSys R&D | Senior Software Engineer (Rust) | Full-time | Remote ConsenSys R&D is focused on developing open source technology for the next generation of Ethereum. We are looking for senior level engineers and researchers with backgrounds in systems engineering, distributed networks (p2p), parallel computing, WebAssembly, and cryptography. Our team is competitively compensated based on experience. Some of the th…
Comment linking /open-roles/?discipline=61666
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted Winner of Barclays builds on Ethereum using BlockApps' flagship product, STRATO [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionConsenSys | Solidity, Go, Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, Java, SRE, DevOps, (read this comment for context) | Remote worldwide | Full-time | https://consensys.net/ ConsenSys is a big name in the crypto-space responsible for MetaMask, Infura, Codefi, the upcoming Quorum Blockchain Service (which I myself work on), and various open source software projects and tooling like (non-exhaustive list) Besu (Ethereum 1 clie…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted Gentle Introduction to the PCP Theorem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMetaMask ( https://metamask.io ) | Software Engineering (javascript, mobile, web3, javascript security) | Full-time | Remote MetaMask is both a blockchain wallet and a gateway to the entire decentralized web. Our tools help people create communities, play video games, access financial services, make payments, invest in assets, survive from economic turmoil, and more use cases than we can even predict. We exist acros…
Comment linking /open-roles/3125242/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted The Inside Story of The CryptoKitties Congestion Crisis (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionConsenSys R&D | Senior Software Engineer (Rust) | Full-time | Remote ConsenSys R&D is focused on developing open source technology for the next generation of Ethereum. We are looking for senior level engineers and researchers with backgrounds in systems engineering, distributed networks (p2p), parallel computing, WebAssembly, and cryptography. Our team is competitively compensated based on experience. Some of the th…
Comment linking /open-roles/?discipline=61666
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)”Submitted ConsenSys Raises $450M Series D Funding ($7B valuation) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionConsenSys R&D | Senior Software Engineer (Rust) | Full-time | Remote ConsenSys R&D is focused on developing open source technology for the next generation of Ethereum. We are looking for senior level engineers and researchers with backgrounds in systems engineering, distributed networks (p2p), parallel computing, WebAssembly, and cryptography. Our team is competitively compensated based on experience. Some of the th…
Comment linking /open-roles/?discipline=61666
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)”Submitted What Is Web3? Here Are Some Ways to Explain It to a Friend as a story · 2 points
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