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305 karma · joined December 13, 2013

with firma.de providing a comprehensive, fast and easy company formation service in Germany that enables founders to stay business-focused instead of getting lost in legal regulations.

Contact me at active.dust5547@ with domain mentioned here: fastmail.com

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chrisked··on Advice for tracking down a listening device?
Start resetting devices first. Like phone and laptop. Then change password to social messaging apps and email. Also change WiFi SSID + password. Be patient and observe a bit. If still an issue then engage police again.
chrisked··on Parental controls aren't for parents
No problem in giving a kid access to technology early. The trick is keep a ratio of 10:1 for produce/create vs consume.
chrisked··on Ask HN: What crypto payments options should I offer for my VPN?
Accept USDC via https://www.x402.org/.
chrisked··on Ask HN: What is a good alternative to SendGrid?
Use resend or postmark
chrisked··on What is the worst SaaS you've ever used?
Zoom used to be good. It’s a mess since they’re trying to be a product suite. Feels like the app is run by 4 product teams with the following team names:

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chrisked··on Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?
Agree that spam filtering out of the box could be improved. If you want advanced control then write a SIEVE script https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591373-How...

Deliverability issue are foreign to me. Never had an issue in over a decade. Did you configure everything properly? Also, ask their support about this with a concrete example. They’re very helpful.

chrisked··on Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?
FastMail is absolutely flawless. Their feature improvements are always on point as well.
chrisked··on I have a custom domain, what's your guys favorite email provider
Since a decade using FastMail.com. Those guys understand how email is supposed to run.
chrisked··on Coinbase Reaches $100M Settlement with New York Regulators
Coinbase disclosed it in on of their earnings calls in 2021. Its old news and quite positive that they resolved this that easy.
chrisked··on Show HN: Twitter Graph - Like Google Trends but for Twitter
Wanted to search for a stock ticker symbol starting with $. This produces and an internal server error.
chrisked··on Coin: A Founder’s Story (Trailer)
No. Pretty good documentary done by Greg Kohs. Quite inspiring for founders.
chrisked··on Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse
No true for me. I was banned and recovered my account within 2 days by emailing abuse@discordapp.com.
chrisked··on Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse
Write abuse@ and you stand a good chance they revert this quickly.
chrisked··on Coinbase Is Reportedly Selling Geolocation Data to ICE
Actually not true and debunked: Coinbase Tracer tools are designed to support compliance and help investigate financial crimes like money laundering and terrorist financing. Coinbase Tracer sources its information from public sources, and does not make use of Coinbase user data. Ever.
chrisked··on Ask HN: Which virtual phone number service do you recommend?
Twilio works well. Just buy a number and forward txt msg to your phone. Never had an issue with low volume.
chrisked··on Coinbase Cloud
Compared to what? I believe it’s a great starting point compared to legacy systems in tradfi.
chrisked··on Coinbase Cloud
The answer is most certainly yes.
chrisked··on Coinbase Cloud
People who understand technicals might use AWS which provides tremendous value for many. I believe Coinbase wants to build AWS for crypto.
chrisked··on Whistleblowers expose corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office
Ok
chrisked··on Question: What's the Next Stripe?
RevenueCat
chrisked··on Job offer won't budge on IP clauses? Am I being unreasonable?
You are not unreasonable. Would push for the projects to be excluded. It can be done easily.
chrisked··on Coinbase CEO Sold $291.8M in Shares on Opening Day
Quite normal for a direct listing. Otherwise not enough shares would be available. Also look at the stock options. C level is very well incentivized.
chrisked··on Coinbase to go public on 4/14
Unfortunately not. Brain and Alesia addressed this in their AUS on Reddit. They thought hard about this and wanted to do it, but weren’t quite there yet.
chrisked··on Show HN: I built Creodocs, a document creation platform based on LaTeX
The homepage has quite a few bugs which makes reading on mobile hard. I assume it’s breaking point related for some blocks. I’m on latest iPhone Pro Max with Chrome. Will check it out in desktop later :)
chrisked··on SEC Approves NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative
He’s referring to Goldman most likely deliberately underpricing the stock. During the IPO the investment bank gives access to certain folks: Their clients. They doubled their money almost risk free since they know demand.
chrisked··on Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement
Rentec being one of the most successful hedge funds come to mind. Here is their site and investor login https://www.rentec.com/Home.action?index=true
chrisked··on MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube
The former owner, Fabian Thylmann, battled some tax evasion charges according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann
chrisked··on Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement
I assume 12 to 16 weeks. Typically it takes the SEC 3-4 weeks to provide initial comments on the S-1 filing. At that point, Coinbase and its advisors are responsible for addressing the comments. Then the feedback loop begins.
chrisked··on Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement
No. Bitcoin reaching ATH was on the front page with over 400 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25443489
chrisked··on Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement
Curious if or how Coinbase Ventures will be described or valued in the S-1 filing. Does someone know if this will be in the filing?

They started corporate development very early in their journey. Portfolio here: (https://ventures.coinbase.com/)

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