It's been used with some internal projects at companies and SOME companies have started building systems with Elixir as a "nicer erlang" nothing major that I know of yet.
The plan is to have v1 happen early this year and after that we'll start seeing more products being built with Elixir.
But really any project using Erlang can and probably will add some Elixir to its code base at some point. The languages complete interop between each other by way of sharing BEAM byte code.
The scale at which Bitcoin exchanges operate at is pretty impressive. Dismissing that due to Mt Gox's poor security is ridiculous. Plus, I don't think the exchanges you're thinking of used Erlang/Elixir.
An industry tends to congeal around a single technology for implementation (for example, Python in bioinformatics), so if bitcoin exchanges will start using Elixir, that is interesting
Vibrating for it to wake you means you need to keep it close to your body. I wonder what health implications it may have -- In general its really bad to have a cell phone touching your body for prolonged periods of time because of the radiation it emits.
The problem is that it is VERY hard to do a conclusive study on this. Never mind that a low dose radiation study would take many years: the hard part is that you need to randomly select half of your group to use only non-radiating (non-functional) cell phones. Good luck finding a group of volunteers for that.
Following your link:
> In 2011, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified mobile phone radiation as Group 2B - possibly carcinogenic.
Group 2B includes coffee, pickled vegetables, titanium dioxide (used in food coloring and sunscreens), and work in carpentry, dry cleaning, printing industry, and textile industry.
I think I'll keep my cell phone. (And coffee and kimchi, for that matter.)
Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but doesn't everyone (or at least the solid majority) keep their cells in their pockets? Close to er..."important" parts of your body?
Sleeping 8 or more hours next to it is just going to compound the issue, but this is already something people don't seem to care that much about...at least in practice.
Seeing a complaint about Coinbase every week makes me feel like they are a poorly managed company -- which is crucial if you're a company dealing with a lot of money.
Reputation is sacred for these kinds of companies and this stuff isn't helping. I was just about to sign up for them, I had their tab open in my browser, but I sincerely thought something like this would happen and that I would "be on a list." Tab's closed, now.
