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I do not know the validity of the source, but can anyone else confirm or reject the claim of the rising demand for blockchain developers. I looked a lot into t

by q-base 7y ago

I do not know the validity of the source, but can anyone else confirm or reject the claim of the rising demand for blockchain developers. I looked a lot into the technology a year or two ago, but never really got around to applying the knowledge. It has since been my personal opinion that the demand seemed to vane and the number of actual useful implementations diminish as well?

varjag 7y ago
Blockchain was the chatbots of 2017, fizzed out.
- NotUsingLinux 7y ago
  this is way to simplistic. "Blockchain" as "AI" or other sufficiently popular concepts are mere projects spaces of peoples hopes and fears. A question now may be: can this "Blockchain" Idea give rise to technology which in turn helps people to coordinate better? Its really interesting there projects who mandate for more transparency through blockchain and then there are projects who ride on "everything" should be private. The answer to such problems very seldom lies in extremes but in the mediation between possible options. Many Ethereum projects but also IPFS now finally offer tangebile (beta) products. In many traditional metrics they are lagg behind mainstream projects. But since decentralization over centralization and collaboration over competition are real values interesting things begin to emerge. Now I could be counting to 3 until the next person jumps here on and (projects his values or antagonist dreams on this) says capitalism is it and socialism was the worst thing in history!!!111 But maybe a room can grow which is neither capitalism nor socialism but yet better. So lets start to ponder , some impossible thoughts - using this blockchain thing. Building better technology - finding better ways to coordinate with people - in the real world. Through digital technology but not only limited to or by it.
timkam 7y ago
An anecdotal perspective: I am doing blockchain-related innovation work in the B2B software industry and often interact with academia and public institutions (research funding providers), as well as with other software vendors. Our problem is that academia and funding providers are way too happy to write papers and fund work on blockchain, while many of the more reasonable software vendors are very careful to not position themselves as blockchain hype idiots. What I see is that we sometimes have to cater to public expectations and at least do some prototyping around blockchain, just to take part in the discussion and to have a clearly articulated position on why blockchain is not a game changer for our particular part of the industry (even if it will take off, it is just one of many technologies in an application stack). I think organizations that embrace the hype a bit more hire some developers to do blockchain-related work to be able to claim that their products are blockchain-based. However, I think the amount of positions that serious, stable companies have open for blockchain developers are negligible. For now, blockchain should be ignored, by all practical means, by anyone who scouts for technologies to learn to increase future career perspectives.
Antoninus 7y ago
We can see the numbers for ourselves. Do a quick search on SO jobs, linkedIn and angellist to see which companies are hiring for blockchain stack expertise. From what I've seen it's a 1:5 ratio.
Huycfhct 7y ago
The rise in demand is real Scams (ICOs) and exchanges have raised new money recently and are hiring

by q-base 7y ago

varjag 7y ago

Blockchain was the chatbots of 2017, fizzed out.

NotUsingLinux 7y ago
this is way to simplistic. "Blockchain" as "AI" or other sufficiently popular concepts are mere projects spaces of peoples hopes and fears. A question now may be: can this "Blockchain" Idea give rise to technology which in turn helps people to coordinate better? Its really interesting there projects who mandate for more transparency through blockchain and then there are projects who ride on "everything" should be private. The answer to such problems very seldom lies in extremes but in the mediation between possible options. Many Ethereum projects but also IPFS now finally offer tangebile (beta) products. In many traditional metrics they are lagg behind mainstream projects. But since decentralization over centralization and collaboration over competition are real values interesting things begin to emerge. Now I could be counting to 3 until the next person jumps here on and (projects his values or antagonist dreams on this) says capitalism is it and socialism was the worst thing in history!!!111 But maybe a room can grow which is neither capitalism nor socialism but yet better. So lets start to ponder , some impossible thoughts - using this blockchain thing. Building better technology - finding better ways to coordinate with people - in the real world. Through digital technology but not only limited to or by it.

timkam 7y ago

An anecdotal perspective: I am doing blockchain-related innovation work in the B2B software industry and often interact with academia and public institutions (research funding providers), as well as with other software vendors. Our problem is that academia and funding providers are way too happy to write papers and fund work on blockchain, while many of the more reasonable software vendors are very careful to not position themselves as blockchain hype idiots. What I see is that we sometimes have to cater to public expectations and at least do some prototyping around blockchain, just to take part in the discussion and to have a clearly articulated position on why blockchain is not a game changer for our particular part of the industry (even if it will take off, it is just one of many technologies in an application stack). I think organizations that embrace the hype a bit more hire some developers to do blockchain-related work to be able to claim that their products are blockchain-based. However, I think the amount of positions that serious, stable companies have open for blockchain developers are negligible. For now, blockchain should be ignored, by all practical means, by anyone who scouts for technologies to learn to increase future career perspectives.

Antoninus 7y ago

We can see the numbers for ourselves. Do a quick search on SO jobs, linkedIn and angellist to see which companies are hiring for blockchain stack expertise. From what I've seen it's a 1:5 ratio.

Huycfhct 7y ago

The rise in demand is real Scams (ICOs) and exchanges have raised new money recently and are hiring