TD₿: As Inflation Cripples Globally, Bitcoin Represents You - (a Swan original series) with Dante Cook
TL;DR: As inflation spikes and essentials become unaffordable - politicians argue about golf. Bitcoin is second to none, with figures like David Portnoy and Michael Dell recognizing its importance.
Hey Bitcoiners,
Today, Dante covers how badly inflation continues to rock people globally, with essentials like groceries costing over three times more than just a few years ago, our politicians argue about their golf handicaps.
Bitcoin represents us all, and there is no second best. People all over the world, including David Portnoy and Michael Dell, are waking up to the reality of Bitcoin becoming one of the most important things for humanity.
Enjoy!
Tick tock next block,
Cory Klippsten
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Quote of the Day
“Bitcoin wasn’t created to make you rich. It was created so that you can opt out of a broken system.”
- Chairforce
Job of the Day
The Company
Swan is a leading Bitcoin-only financial services company supporting individuals and companies throughout their Bitcoin journey. We hire passionate Bitcoiners who want to work with a self-motivated and fully distributed startup team.
The Role
As Site Reliability Engineer position, you will work closely with our development team, the CTO, and cloud/infra engineers to develop and operate a robust and scalable platform to support Swan’s business lines.
You’ll cover a wide range of activities, from day to day operations, error monitoring, and proactive communication, to engineering, bug fixes, and database analysis to improve performance of queries. While this position is focused on operational expertise, experience and desire to build software and systems will always be encouraged.
Your responsibilities
Establishing the SRE program at Swan. Guiding engineers across teams in observability, logging, monitoring, and capacity planning with an eye toward long term trends
Creating consistent, well documented, well monitored systems - working directly with hands on code to fix logging and observability, working in data dog, becoming a driver for consistency. Working with security, dev, and other teams to create a framework for monitoring, alerting, etc - building on what we already have but taking it to the next level
Helping with any high priority development projects across teams in an architect/senior developer type of role, as needed
Working closely with security team to ensure crossover of security and site reliability concerns
Working with infrastructure team on improvements to infrastructure to provide reliable site operations including hands on work and architecture work
Providing mentorship for other SRE’s on best practices
Providing training and guidance for on-call team members.
Setting up the on-boarding process for new on-call engineers in partnership with engineering managers
Helping to determine appropriate response times for alerts, driving the team to success and reporting on metrics.
Working closely with other engineers to scope work discovered in on call response.
Work closely with security team on incident response.
Skills and experience that will help you succeed
Experience with Datadog or similar, setting up monitors, alerting systems, anomaly management and forecasting. A desire to drive a proactive approach to scalability.
Medium to advanced level understanding of Postgres databases, having dealt with databases at scale, understanding how to tweak parameters, optimize sql queries, and knowledge of AWS RDS in particular.
Excellent understanding of HA architectures built in AWS.
At least mid level knowledge of DNS, SSL, AWS networking, Docker, and ECS.
Working knowledge of security principles in the cloud and a familiarity with the AWS Well Architected Framework.
Cool under pressure, able to manage incidents involving multiple systems, communicate effectively internally and externally using tools like StatusPage and PagerDuty, marshal resources, and get things resolved, including writing blameless postmortems.
Comfortable in taking (very occasional) pager alerts during working hours and sometimes weekends (we generally try to avoid night time pager alerts, as we do have staff in Europe and can split pager duty across timezones). You will not be the only on-call staff, but you will be in charge of primary incident response and leadership and training of other developers in response and mitigation.
Here's a bit about our culture
We’re a growing team: Fully distributed across the world, Slack and Huddles are huge here.
We’re very flat: Leadership is desired and encouraged; we hire people who care about and use the product they are working on.
We’re Bitcoiners: We find solutions that encourage Bitcoin principles. We are often involved in the Bitcoin community through writing, podcasts, conferences, open source projects, and time spent on Twitter to help educate the masses. We love Bitcoin, and it comes through in our daily chats, meetings, and actions.
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Event of the Day
Bitcoin Nashville 2024 - 12 Hour All-Inclusive Pleb Party July 25, Hosted by Anders
This year, Swan Bitcoin is sponsoring the Pleb Party at 2024 Bitcoin Nashville on July 25th. The previous two Pleb Parties were the place to be, and a lot of connections were made, which made the conference itself an even better experience. Even Saylor showed up at the last party in Miami.
Confirmed guests for this Nashville 2024 Pleb Party include:
Lawrence Lepard
James Lavish
Preston Pysh
Robert Breedlove
Natalie Brunell
Mark Moss
The two brothers behind BTC Prague June 13-15, the largest Bitcoin Only event in Europe: Matyas and Martin
Tatum Turnup
The entire Simply Bitcoin crew: Sofi, Nico, Opti and Rustin
Publord
... come get a drink in the open bar VIP style and say cheers to these amazing Bitcoin producers!
This party is for Bitcoiners to meet for laughs, smiles, and hugs the evening before the conference. Many well-known Bitcoin names were there, and it was the plebs' opportunity to hang out and have an informal chat with these great minds in a way that is normally hard to achieve.
This is a BITCOIN ONLY event, and anyone shilling shitcoins or NFTs will be escorted out of the venue with no refund of tickets but with a few acronyms like GFY and HFSP.
More details here.
… And, don't miss this premier gathering in the heart of Nashville — a pivotal moment for enthusiasts and professionals driving the next wave of Bitcoin innovation!
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