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I think you should get out. We are at a critical point now where the criticism for crypto has hit the mainstream, and over the last market cycle that criticism
by wespiser_2018 4y ago
I think you should get out. We are at a critical point now where the criticism for crypto has hit the mainstream, and over the last market cycle that criticism was proven to be true: that crypto is largely predatory in nature and has few if any real world applications has been proven out. Maybe your project is different, but the industry works in some pretty dark ways.
There are lots of informed crypto skeptics that understand finance, economics, and distributed systems enough to know that crypto is not going to work as it's sold to retail investors, and their voices grow louder everyday. Plenty of these critics, like myself, have experience working on crypto projects or have a background in SWE, distributed systems, and VC funded start ups. Working on crypto in 2016 is a much different ethical dilemma than working in the space in 2021, or even 2023. We simply know more, and right now we're watching the bodies rack up as the market experiences cascade failures.
Of course, if you 100% believe in a technology and think it has a future, then by all means keep working in that space. However, leaving is not impossible. There's such a need for senior devs that working on un-ethical projects isn't an unsurmountable goal.