2021-11-30 20:45 |
The crypto economy continues to lure top talent from Wall Street. Matt Zhang becomes the latest industry veteran to jump ship.
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How to identify top crypto talent in the recruitment process: Hire a diverse range of people who have the required attributes without lowering your standards.
2022-7-2 05:41 | |
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Funds continue to flow into the cryptocurrency market, with Pantera Capital being the latest to raise funding for its another crypto venture fund. Pantera Capital has raised $600 million for its fourth venture fund, according to tech news site The Information, citing a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
2021-11-25 18:09 | |
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Legacy financial institutions are going on a massive hiring spree for crypto talent, despite unflattering statements made in the press recently regarding cryptocurrency. The post Banks Continue to Hire Crypto Talent as Industry Job Postings Surged 615% in August appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-11-6 13:29 | |
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With the realization that crypto would play an invaluable role in the evolution of the financial landscape, some of the leading financial institutions in the world are now paying top dollar to recruit top crypto talents into their folds.
2021-11-3 13:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency job listings on LinkedIn are up by over 600% since August 2020, and top US banks like JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo have become the leading employers in the digital assets industry.
2021-11-2 15:25 | |
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Anyone paying attention knows crypto is at an inflection point. One clear sign of that is top talent from other industries entering the space. We’ve been lucky to be joined by some truly spectacular individuals who decided to begin their crypto journey with us, and some old hands who decided to make Ledger their next […]
2021-10-1 12:58 | |
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Amber Group, the leading crypto finance service provider, announced today the launch of a new internship program, STAR-X, one of its talent nurturing initiatives. The program offers a four-week rotational internship for juniors, seniors, and graduate students from top universities worldwide.
2021-8-19 12:09 | |
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Cryptocurrency companies and exchanges are currently facing significant hurdles when recruiting talent. This is because the crypto space is growing at an alarming rate. Traditional finance companies entering the scene seem to be making the talent squeeze even more dire.
2021-6-26 11:30 | |
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Crypto firms pursuing global expansion agendas are having to compete to attract the limited number of top talent to fill job positions.
2021-6-25 13:17 | |
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As part of an initiative that seeks to build the crypto and blockchain space talent base, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO1), a community-led protocol, will be holding a major collaborative computer programming or a hackathon.
2021-6-18 13:00 | |
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The entrepreneurial mayor brings his recruitment of tech talent to the crypto space with the potential of a 1% investment of the city’s reserves into BTC.
2021-1-16 23:00 | |
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Just as the price of Bitcoin and digital assets start surging, so does the talent which has been flocking back to the cryptocurrency market in the last few months. Software developers are making their back into the world of crypto at a level that hasn’t been seen since the market peaked three years ago when […] The post New Crypto Developers Growing for the First Time since 2017: Electric Capital Report first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2020-12-11 17:23 | |
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Crypto security firm Fireblocks said Wednesday that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. The money will be used to hire new talent as well as to expand its global operations to meet “institutional and retail market demand for digital assets.
2020-11-19 12:15 | |
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The exodus has begun at Coinbase, with dozens of employees having taken CEO Brian Armstrong up on his offer for a severance package. And while breaking up is never easy to do, the talent pool has been greeted with open arms by the cryptocurrency community.
2020-10-10 01:30 | |
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian sees a crypto spring on the horizon and regards talent pouring into the Bitcoin space as a promising sign. Reddit Co-Founder: “Crypto Spring” in the Air... The post Reddit Co-Founder Says Bitcoin Is Here to Stay appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-5-26 14:29 | |
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One of the core factors that has propelled the popularity of crypto is the abundance of talented individuals that are willing to use blockchain to stretch the limits of existing systems. As such, it is clear as to why the development cycle in this industry is second to none.
2019-10-25 15:00 | |
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The Brad Garlinghouse-led firm is on an expansion mode, hiring teams on a global scale. The Algrim deal marked the second engineering talent acquisition this week. The official release further stated that the acquisitions of the Logos platform and Algrim point to ‘Ripple’s strong market momentum and focus on attracting and developing the best in engineering […] The post Ripple acquires Icelandic crypto trading company Algrim appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-9-30 11:19 | |
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As if Facebook's Libra doesn't have enough trouble, they just lost a developer to a rising crypto star. Square Crypto has poached a trio of blockchain developers from across the tech industry including Lightning Labs, Facebook's Libra, and Google.
2019-9-20 20:59 | |
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Are you getting bored of your 9-5? Ripple Labs is hiring…. but you might need to relocate. Faced with increased competition from the likes of Facebook and JPMorgan, the company behind XRP is seeking new talent in its quest to dominate the international settlements game.
2019-7-10 17:38 | |
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BlockTower Capital launches competition to recruit crypto asset analyst - CryptoNinjas BlockTower Capital, a crypto asset and blockchain investment firm, today announced the launch of the first annual BlockTower Investment Analyst Competition.
2019-6-21 00:27 | |
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Cryptocurrency fund BlockTower is launching a competition where analysts can submit their investment thesis for a chance to win 3. 5 BTC and get an interview for an analyst position at the fund’s Connecticut office, June 15, 2019.
2019-6-17 15:26 | |
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The demand for blockchain talent is high, and among the ICO craze of late 2017, led to lucrative salary offerings for developers well-versed in the art of smart contract builds and implementing open-source frameworks like Hyperledger.
2019-6-7 09:50 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Some Chinese listed companies have jumped on the bandwagon of bitcoin mining following the bitcoin bull run throughout 2017, either under the guise of cloud computing or providing mining hosting services, in an effort to bypass regulations considering the country’s tough stance on bitcoin.
2019-5-29 18:53 | |
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Cryptocurrency companies in the United States aren’t happy. Token issuers, exchanges, and VCs are up in arms about vague and contradictory guidance on crypto asset regulation. Should the U.
2019-5-29 00:48 | |
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Follow the talent. Smart investors know that boom markets attract a wave of top talent, chasing new money. In the past 12 to 18 months, there has been an exodus of high-level staff from the traditional financial industry to crypto startups. Will institutional money follow?
2019-5-17 16:00 | |
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The CTO of Ripple Labs, the creator of the XRP cryptocurrency, has called on the cryptocurrency community to become less “militant“, as it runs the risk of scaring talent out of the space.
2019-5-16 18:33 | |
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The first quarter has come and gone, and there’s still no Bakkt. Nonetheless, the regulated exchange for bitcoin futures contracts, whose backers include NYSE-owned Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and Microsoft, is boldly building out its team.
2019-4-14 23:30 | |
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As empty as the phrase may be, most people agree that we need more women in blockchain. “You can’t have a revolution and leave out half of the population,” insists Celsius Network’s Alex Mashinsky, also the inventor of VOIP.
2019-4-10 16:54 | |
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50, Make That 72 Facebook’s in-house blockchain division has purportedly doubled-down on its search for talent in the budding crypto ecosystem, in spite of the collapse in the Bitcoin price.
2019-3-26 04:00 | |
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Visa Is Hiring New Tech Product Manager: Company Is Looking For Crypto And Blockchain Talent One of the largest payment service companies in the world, Visa, has recently opened a new job position. This would be pretty usual and not even newsworthy in normal cases, however, the company is seeking someone with crypto and blockchain […]
2019-3-19 23:24 | |
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Global payment services giant Visa has published a crypto- and blockchain-related job opening for its Visa Fintech division
2019-3-19 21:12 | |
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Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet providers in the US, has acquired Neutrino, a blockchain intelligence startup based out of Italy. The move is a potential acquihire to augment Coinbase’s analytics talent.
2019-2-20 02:29 | |
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The so-called “crypto winter” has undoubtedly been tough on a majority of this ecosystem’s upstarts, even those with supposedly colossal war chests and copious amounts of talent.
2019-2-16 03:00 | |
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ErisX, a cryptocurrency exchange platform backed by the likes of Nasdaq and Fidelity Investments, has on-boarded three new staff members to bolster its team ahead of the launch this year according to a press release published on February 7, 2019.
2019-2-10 18:00 | |
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The bitcoin bull market was a bubble that burst in 2018, but the “painful” event had a major upside: It attracted a lot of money and talent to the burgeoning industry. That’s the assessment of Matt Hougan, the global head of research at Bitwise, creator of the world’s first cryptocurrency index fund.
2019-2-6 02:55 | |
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TRM Labs Inc. , a regtech startup based in San Francisco, has raised US$1. 7 million in a seed funding round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Tapas Capital, Green D Ventures, The MBA Fund, and strategic angel investors.
2019-2-1 13:45 | |
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Chinese crypto mining juggernaut Bitmain has taken a substantial hit in the recent crypto crash, leading to negative consequences for the company on many fronts. Just today, a source has confirmed with Bitcoin Magazine that the company is shutting down its offices in Amsterdam.
2019-1-15 00:45 | |
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Although 2019 has dawned, the crypto “nuclear winter” of yesteryear has yet to entirely abate. Just weeks after Bitmain, ConsenSys, ShapeShift, Huobi, among other Bitcoin-related startups, cut a number of their staff, Blockfolio, which manages one of the most used applications in the industry, also had to wave goodbye to talent.
2019-1-13 00:00 | |
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Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.
2019-1-11 21:17 | |
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Coinbase just announced the opening of its new office in Portland, Oregon on Twitter. The San Francisco-based crypto giant now has seven offices worldwide. Coinbase posted photos of the office’s grand opening ceremony on Twitter earlier today.
2019-1-11 09:28 | |
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Crypto exchanges are busily competing for entrepreneurial talent. On the 10th birthday of the Bitcoin genesis block, Binance is raising the standard for new coins. Binance Launchpad is the exchange’s new token sale platform, and the plan is to support, borrowing a phrase from Blockchain Capital’s Spencer Bogart, the “creme de la crypto.
2019-1-3 20:40 | |
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The Chinese crypto mining company Bitmain has apparently been hit hard by the bear market and is looking to sack more than half of their entire workforce. Credible rumors of this story first began to circulate on Maimai, China’s equivalent to LinkedIn, as anonymous sources on a site frequently used by Bitmain employees began reporting that the company was looking at massive layoffs in the next several days.
2018-12-29 21:20 | |
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Tezos is one of those projects that appears destined to survive. Rising from the ashes after the inferno between the Swiss foundation and project leaders, the platform seems stronger than ever, with the focus back where it should be — on the technology and the talent that co-founder Arthur Breitman has to offer.
2018-12-7 02:02 | |
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What do Sophie Monk, Paul McDermott, and Robert Whitaker have in common? They are just of the few celebrities to endorse a new cryptocurrency-based app that promises to disrupt the typical sourcing process of getting to talents.
2018-11-28 00:30 | |
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The chief policy officer at leading crypto brokerage and exchange platform Coinbase has left his position for one at U. S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Is Michael Lempres’s move indicative of a wider pilgrimage of talent from the digital asset industry in the wake of the 2018 bear market? Will More Crypto Talent Follow Lempres’s.
2018-11-21 22:00 | |
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“Follow the talent. ” It’s a maxim investor Chris Burniske tweeted recently to underscore another tweet from AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant when he wrote back in March: “Blockchains are now sucking in top-tier Silicon Valley tech talent faster than any boom since the Internet.
2018-11-19 08:32 | |
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Huobi exchange, which just opened an office in Moscow, wants to lend money and rent space to Russian miners, shape the country's regulations and train local blockchain talent.
2018-11-18 15:00 | |
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BTC Inc, the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, is excited to announce the hiring of Andrew Fleming to be the new head of its media division. The addition of Fleming to BTC Inc’s management roster is the latest example of an emerging trend of big-name talent leaving institutions in order to join the crypto and blockchain industry.
2018-11-7 17:54 | |
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In recent months many blockchain startups have been making moves to hire top talent away from the giants of the tech and banking industries. The latest example of this crypto headhunting was just announced by Ripple.
2018-10-28 01:16 | |
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This week’s Crypto Biz explores SVB Capital bids, new funds from Blockchain Capital, the Hut 8-US Bitcoin merger and Citigroup’s private blockchain.