[fludlight]

Rolling your own payroll is about as good an idea as rolling your own crypto.

[say_it_as_it_is]

However, if you roll your own crypto payroll, the risk of one project perfectly offsets that of the other. It's a perfect hedge.

[wglb]

Ah, but what if they add rather than cancel?

[kaetemi]

Two negatives make a positive, right?

[rodgerd]

It depends whether payroll theft is part of your business model, or something you're trying to avoid.

[walshemj]

One large company (170k employees) I worked at switched from an in house payroll system to an external month.

Second month was a disaster in the end they had to physically cut the tape on the last remaining partially destroyed copy - about 20% got paid on time.

[fludlight]

Switching a large enterprise software system is almost as time consuming, expensive, and error prone as developing a replacement in-house. You would have experienced substantial problems even if it was in-house -> in-house-rewrite or external->in-house or external-a -> external-b.

[tehlike]

If rolling your own crypto, you mean cryptocoin, that sounds like a great idea to increase wealth :)

[cercatrova]

Cryptography not cryptocurrency.

[tehlike]

That was the joke.