A trip to Malta I am a passionate diver. I started this hobby not so long ago. In fact, at the beginning of this year I had barely made my Advanced Open Water certification and had logged
Management Press release – Binary.com launches world’s first ICO with 18 years of history 15 November, 2017: Binary.com, the pioneer of online binary options trading has launched its highly-anticipated Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to give potential investors an opportunity to invest in a best-of-breed type of
Bitcoin How to securely create a Bitcoin paper wallet For holding (or hodling!) Bitcoin, there's arguably nothing better than a "paper wallet", which is a single Bitcoin address to which you own the private key, which you can print or
Management Why we are doing an ICO (and not an IPO) Since starting in 1999, Binary.com has grown to become one of the world’s leading binary options platforms. Our growth led us to contemplate an Initial Public Offering (or IPO) to raise
Management Press release - Binary.com announces Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Binary options pioneer is offering digital tokens that grant dividend-linked payments through its “IPO on the blockchain” 28 September, 2017: Binary.com, the pioneer in online binary options trading, today announced it will
Management History of the Binary Options industry This article is an attempt to chronicle the history of the binary options industry, as seen from a Binary.com perspective. Early years: 1999-2011 The Binary.com venture was founded in 1999 as
Why Bitcoin will keep rising for a very long time Bitcoin may have risen 1,102,682-fold (!) since Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for BTC 10,000 in May 2010, but it has the potential to go a lot further still. I believe
Software Development Ethereum Bitcoin works by having miners validate transactions that are technically short scripts written in a very simple scripting language. If the script runs and doesn't return an error, it's a valid transaction and
Management Coloured Coins This brief article expands on a previous post about Bitcoin and discusses coloured coins. Coloured coins are a way of representing real-world assets (e.g. shares, gold, fiat money) on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Malaysian trips and activities Binary has two offices in Malaysia, one in Cyberjaya (Malaysia's center of e-commerce innovation) and one in central Kuala Lumpur (in the Q Sentral building at KL Sentral). At Binary we believe in
Management Teambuilding trip to Gopeng Binary's teambuilding trips are designed to celebrate the team spirit with the company, ands to encourage persons from different departments to meet each other in non-work situations. We do different kinds of trips
Management Getting the most from email Here are a few tips and tricks about how to get the best results from your email communications: Keep your emails short. 1-2 lines are best, or 3 sentences. Preferably it would fit
Management Bitcoin This post is intended as an overview of Bitcoin and the most important related companies and tools. Overview See the CoinDesk State of BlockChain 2016, the List of notable Bitcoin companies on wikipedia,
Management Interview Skills The Hiring Manager’s Guide to Employment Interviews A manager’s most important job is to select the right talent for every open position, and then to nurture and develop that talent. To
Management Binary.com's Recruitment Process Binary.com follows a structured recruitment process designed to locate the top talent for any given position. The recruitment funnel is described below. Sourcing There are basically two ways to source candidates: (1)
Management Basic Security Best-Practices Here is a list of security best-practices which we apply at Binary.com, but which are good practices to adopt at any company. Use strong passwords Seems obvious, right? But surprisingly many people
Book summaries The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make [Book Summary] THE TOP TEN MISTAKES LEADERS MAKE, by Hans Finzel Mistake #1: Having a Top-Down Attitude The top-down leadership style is all about command and control. The top-down attitude places the leader as the
Book summaries Getting Real [Book Summary] 37Signals (now called Basecamp) is a Chicago-based web application company, famous for having amongst other things invented the Ruby on Rails web application framework, and the "Getting Real" philosophy. 37Signals is
Management Office Layout for IT Development Teams Binary.com's main software development centre is in the iTech Tower in Cyberjaya, where we have the entire 13th floor. We designed the layout of this office with software development in mind. The
Software Development Front-End Projects at Binary.com The Binary.com front-end code has been completely split from the back-end code. All front-end projects interface to the back-end via our WebSockets API. Our front-end projects are all open-sourced on GitHub. We
Book summaries Getting to Yes [Book Summary] Getting to Yes is an excellent book about negotiation. It introduces the concept of principled negotiation, which is useful in innumerable scenarios when managing a company. GETTING TO YES, by Roger Fisher and
Management Best Practices in Compensation The core principle to apply when it comes to compensation is fairness. Accordingly, there are two best practices that should be the guiding principles in setting salary levels within an organisation: Internal Equity.
Book summaries The Non-Designer's Design Book [Book Summary] Software developers often have no idea about design. In fact, most of your marketing team too won't have any idea about design. As a result, projects often don't look too good. Yet there
Book summaries The Five Temptations of a CEO [Book Summary] THE FIVE TEMPTATIONS OF A CEO, by Patrick Lencioni Temptation #1: Choosing status over results The most important principle that an executive must embrace is a desire to produce results. Yet some CEOs
Management Productivity tips This blog post provides a list of suggestions to improve your productivity and impact at work. Communication Write short emails. They save your time, save the time of the reader too, and ensure