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title: How To Approach Me With Scamcoin Jobs
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date: 2022-02-01
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author: Heartmender
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tags:
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- bitcoin
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- ethereum
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- nft
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- cryptocurrency
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[Don't. Seriously don't. I have net negative interest in them and will actively
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waste your time to avoid you scamming some sorry sucker out of their sanity and
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hope for the future. The only blockchain I'm excited to work with is Git. Do not
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try to convince me that scamcoin is the next coming of sliced bread. Go buy
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furry art from actual artists instead of white nationalist
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monkeys.](conversation://Cadey/coffee)
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As a side effect of my blog's apparent popularity, I get a lot of people from
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many different backgrounds contacting me asking me if I want to work with them
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or for their company. These are almost always turned down, but recently I had an
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interaction with someone trying to shill a job at me that was so transparently
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bad that I feel I should sub-blog them.
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[Sub-blogging? Is that like sub-tweeting but in
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longform?](conversation://Mara/hmm)
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[Yes, it's a thing. Several posts on this site are sub-blogging examples. Won't
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tell which ones.](conversation://Cadey/coffee)
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Usually you can tell what way these things are going to go by the subject line.
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Here's the subject line that I got yesterday:
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> Blockchain company I am applying to
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[Oh boy.](conversation://Cadey/coffee)
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And here's the body ([emphasis] mine):
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> I am applying to work for [scammers] on his blockchain projects and came
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> across your projects and ideas and you are someone I would want to work with,
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> thus I am telling you about this job I am applying for. Here is the original
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> job post tweet: [LINK EXPUNGED] with the corrected description below.
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[Is this a recruiter?](conversation://Numa/delet)
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> I like that you have a variety of projects in a variety of languages
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[Totally reads like a recruiter.](conversation://Numa/delet)
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> Are you good at @golang? Want to make $175,000 a year? Speak good English? I
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> want to hire you. Remote. Blockchain software all sucks. We're making it suck
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> less. [We want to fork the Go Ethereum server], porting this to [buzzword]
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> after mainnet launch. Direct message me [on Telegram] or email me (I hate
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> email) at [LINK EXPUNGED] I'll give you a 15 minute test to filter out the
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> noobs. Pulsechain mainnet MVP: testnet. [LINK EXPUNGED] working with
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> [incomprehensible]. bridges: ETH, large ERC20s. Uniswap v2 fronted for
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> [buzzword]. Block explorer. Post MVP: trading: pancakeswap fork, insanely
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> important, LP rewards for ERC20/PRC20 pairs. Coin ranking site for PRC20s.
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> Wallet: replace metamask (electron app for cross platform). Uniswap but across
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> chains. More bridges: to start, then btc, bnb, bch, in that order. Network:
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> pulsechain. Uniswap v3 front end. Stablecoin from my exchange I'm making.
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> Aggregator: replace [waste of human effort] market orders and limit orders.
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> Margin trading. [why does that exist] (we already have hexnado already can
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> modify).
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> Look forward to hearing from you and possibly working with you.
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> Thank You,
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>
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> [NAME EXPUNGED]
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[What the hell is that? That's a bunch of "sentences" that seemingly have no real
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understandable quality to them. It reads like an AI took every scamcoin tweet
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and SEO blog and threw it in a blender with GPT-3 and laundry sauce, then
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someone prompted it with "Blockchain software all sucks. We're making it suck
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less." and hoped it made sense.](conversation://Numa/delet)
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[Maybe this person isn't a native English speaker, we should at least be
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charitable as to what they're saying in order to avoid pissing people
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off. Not like we want to take this job anyways...](conversation://Mara/happy)
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[I'm with the raging side here. This is hardly understandable, even more since I
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only know enough about scamcoin to know I never want to associate with it. This
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is transparently someone trying to drum up hype in a product that doesn't exist
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yet by claiming to be a peer so that it looks like they're more
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trustable.](conversation://Cadey/coffee)
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[Yeah, this is so transparently an advertisement. Who the hell contacts someone
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out of the blue letting them know about a job _they applied for_ without there
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being some kind of financial motivation for the person doing the
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contact? Maybe we could work a reading comprehension test in there too for shits
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and giggles!](conversation://Numa/delet)
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> Hello,
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> My minimum salary for blockchain related projects is 600,000 USD per
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> year payable in Automated Clearing House amounts twice monthly (your
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> payroll system probably supports this already). I do not care about
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> being paid in cryptocurrency. I prefer USA fiat currency. Since you
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> said you want to hire me, what should I do to move forward with this?
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> Thanks and be well,
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[Why add that thing about being paid in US dollars?](conversation://Mara/hmm)
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[If you don't add that the scamcoin people will offer to pay you exclusively in
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scamcoin!](conversation://Numa/delet)
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[Why would they do that? Shouldn't a job you apply to pay you in real
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money?](conversation://Mara/wat)
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[A sucker's born every minute. Plus it's trivial for them to spin up a billion
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memecoins out of nothing in a project this early in the game despite what they
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claim about being able to print money out of nowhere being impossible in
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scamcoin spaces.](conversation://Numa/delet)
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[I see.](conversation://Mara/hmm)
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[SEND!](conversation://Numa/delet)
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Some time later:
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[lol we got a reply:](conversation://Numa/delet)
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> Wow, you didn't peruse what I wrote, I am a software engineer who is applying
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> for the same position I wrote to you about. I don't work for [scam artist] or
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> [proper noun], yet. Thanks for replying though
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[Sure you are. That makes sense that you as a software engineer applying for
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jobs would try to drum up hype in a company you don't even work for yet. THAT
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MAKES SENSE!!!](conversation://Numa/delet)
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[Didn't we do that with Tailscale though, even if just a
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little?](conversation://Mara/hmm)
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[Fair, but that was different, Tailscale actually has a product that isn't
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related to making people think they own a jpeg with funny money that you used to
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be able to use to buy drugs with.<br /><br />This looks like a great place to
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bring out the idiot fee. Draft ho!](conversation://Cadey/coffee)
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> Ah, in that case my fee is 1.2 million dollars per year in salary.
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> Thank you for understanding.
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There was no reply.
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[No fun, this could have been even more amusing!](conversation://Numa/delet)
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[If you are going to try to shill a scamcoin job _to a writer_, please at least
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put some effort into the wording you use. So many people have been trained to
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assume that dodgy English = blatant scam.<br /><br />Also I am happy with
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my current job, so you won't really be able to get me over
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anyways.](conversation://Cadey/coffee)
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