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Wtf is a blockchain dev?

• seibelj 8y ago
  Ethereum (solidity), Dapp development, etc.
  • mehh 8y ago
    You would indeed need to pay me an awful lot to write anything sensible in Solidity, awful stupid language!
• jMyles 8y ago
  Someone who knows some fundamentals of solidity, follows development of vyper, knows Piper's ethereum toolchain reasonably well, and most importantly, can think critically about the power dynamics of decentralized applications and how they apply in real terms in a codebase. Someone who has given ample time to thinking about concepts like vesting, staking, slashing, locking, and strategies for saving gas over large numbers of transactions. Understanding ECDSA, ECDHE, key encapsulation, etc. are pretty good too. And yes, such people are hard to find - these are wonderful skills to be learning right now.
  • jnbiche 8y ago
    First of all, this sounds like an Ethereum dev, not what I'd imagine a blockchain dev is. Second, is there seriously a significant demand for these kind of devs? Where are such jobs advertised? Are these mostly for sketchy ICO offerings?
    • ofrzeta 8y ago
      I don't know about significant but there's some demand because insurances, banks and even stock exchanges are wanting to do something with blockchain. This could be over soon, I guess, so I wouldn't bet on it.