Senior engineer with 10+ years experience focused around data engineering, available for web scraping projects. Language-agnostic although in love with Scrapy/Python.
Rate $1200 / day, open to retainers but not looking for employment.
Senior engineer with 10+ years experience focused around data engineering, available for web scraping projects. Language-agnostic although in love with Scrapy/Python.
Rate $150 / hr, open to retainers but not looking for employment.
I used to love discovering new music through Spotify's Song Radio feature. But somewhere along the way, they started personalizing it so much that every radio is now basically an echo chamber of the same songs I already know, most of which I have even already added to my Liked Songs.
I built myself a small service to "disable" (work around) Spotify's hyperpersonalization by giving me the Song Radio as an anonymous user would see it. It's available at https://spoqify.com/ (with the name chosen that way so that I only need to replace a single letter in the URL of a Song Radio Playlist and it'll forward me to an unpersonalized version of it).
As @svantana mentioned this unfortunately does not remove any personalization in Song Radio, etc. As long as you're logged in, these auto-generated playlists will contain exactly the same (personalized!) list of songs, regardless of whether you open them with or without the `si` and `utm` parameters. Removing `si` and `utm` just removes marketing / referral tracking information.
I got tired of hearing the same songs over and over again in Spotify's auto-generated playlists (e.g. Song Radio), so I made this little service that forwards you to the same playlist but with the songs that an anonymous user sees :)
I agree and have always found this interesting. But it is similar behavior in more transparent stablecoins. Only Gemini’s GUSD has seemed to completely burned to nothing at one point. But USDC and DAI have growth so similar to Tether during bear markets that I cant put the lack of burns squarely on Bitfinex.
Either there is a broader accounting issue with minting and burning methodologies or people/entities really do hold.
During bear markets large market participants are still buying, and a tiny portion of people are providing the price discovery, and this is mirrored in the increasing amounts of crypto that have not moved from addresses in a long time.
Many people hold the stablecoin itself, instead of going back to fiat. So there is growth of all market participants, even during bear markets when other cryptos are falling out of favor.
Thinking out loud, I've paid a lot of graphic designers and marketers in India this year in Tether. They arent familiar with crypto but just notice that their Unocoin app takes it. We’re not doing paypal, and all fiat transfers are domestic with none of fees, time, or scrutiny that an international fiat transfer would have.
The nature of all stablecoins is that if the supply does not match the demand then there are arbitrage opportunities to mint more, which can be initiated by the user. If Tether is worth $1.02 then you can mint a new tether by depositing on Bitfinex and selling that Tether for a 2% premium.
So if all the stablecoins have similar growth patterns, the things going for Tether are simply first mover advantage and greater clout in Asia.
Yes it’s a scam and 30 billion dollars deposited in a year is a laughable claim, particularly from a company with a history of lies and fraud. Nobody in the crypto space calls them on it because the fact they get away with it calls into question the entire ecosystem.
Senior engineer with 10+ years experience focused around data engineering, available for web scraping projects. Language-agnostic although in love with Scrapy/Python.
Rate $1200 / day, open to retainers but not looking for employment.
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