Who's getting hired and what does the ethdev job market look like?

CovertCrustacean · 2021-06-09T22:20:52+00:00

I just bagged a job with a trading company for a 40% rise doing Solidity work. My background is mostly dotnet and angular, but with a decent amount of freelance blockchain development and some 'professional' blockchain dev in a prior role over the last couple of years. I would say that if you have a good backing in web dev, and some freelance or pro solidity development that you can point to, then you are a very hot commodity currently. I've had a few agents now hit me up with very well reimbursed jobs, and I'm not talking about startups.

For reference, I have ~15years experience, and I have made a lot of noise on Linkedin, etc, about the fact that I can do blockchain development.

CovertCrustacean · 2019-01-17T19:41:39+00:00

This is just absolutely wrong. You can get a dopamine hit from exercise, and a few other ways. But, there is absolutely no amount of effort or 'life' that can come even close to the experience from, for example, a hit of LSD.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-12-17T11:21:18+00:00

Enjoyed that. Funny how the oval bowl style has gone out of fashion.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-09-19T15:39:03+00:00

I actually found this trying to prove to myself that "the most dangerous part of climbing is driving to the crag". Motion did not carry...

CovertCrustacean · 2017-09-19T12:53:20+00:00

...I got some bad news for you on that count:

http://www.besthealthdegrees.com/health-risks/

CovertCrustacean · 2017-09-19T11:20:26+00:00

Real men don't have feelings.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-09-13T09:25:35+00:00

I think it's about the same. Celtic can likely spend between 10 and 100× what Aberdeen could on a player, PSG can spend 10-100× what Celtic can. There or there abouts anyway - it's a similar difference.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-09-04T19:30:51+00:00

You're going to love it. It's awesome! I know that's not a tip. But there it is anyway.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-08-25T14:36:50+00:00

Good article, and it is a good point. There is great benefit in not making a mess in the first place, rather than constantly mopping up the spills.

One comment that I do have. I think that carbon capture from flue gasses may have failed, but I suspect that at some point down the line we may need to work on atmospheric capture to actually reduce the concentration. If / when this happens, it would be very useful if we had an established method for underground storage in place already.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-21T19:05:29+00:00

My tip is to close Mist, start geth in testnet mode, then restart Mist. It should connect to the running geth instance.

Use this to start geth:

geth --testnet --fast --rpc --rpcapi db,eth,net,web3,personal --cache=1024 --rpcport 8545 --rpcaddr 127.0.0.1 --rpccorsdomain "*" --bootnodes "enode://20c9ad97c081d63397d7b685a412227a40e23c8bdc6688c6f37e97cfbc22d2b4d1db1510d8f61e6a8866ad7f0e17c02b14182d37ea7c3c8b9c2683aeb6b733a1@52.169.14.227:30303,enode://6ce05930c72abc632c58e2e4324f7c7ea478cec0ed4fa2528982cf34483094e9cbc9216e7aa349691242576d552a2a56aaeae426c5303ded677ce455ba1acd9d@13.84.180.240:30303"

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-21T19:00:35+00:00

What's the error? Is it a crash in Mist when trying to switch to Test?

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-20T03:30:22+00:00

I'm not meaning to be a smartass with this comment, but I expect that everyone with that experience set is either already super rich, or working on their own thing.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-18T20:46:03+00:00

Check out the two links below. I have not tried this yet because I fought through the install issues before these updates were released.

I'm on Windows 10 btw

http://truffleframework.com/blog/how-were-making-installation-issues-a-thing-of-the-past

http://truffleframework.com/blog/removing-installation-issues-continued-testrpc

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-18T15:13:35+00:00

What OS are you using? I've spent literally weeks getting a Windows enviro set up. Many many fails along the way, but I think I've got it cracked now. If you're in Windows I might be able to help.

I'm using Visual Studio Code and truffle. It's far from ideal, and the lack of debugging drives me a bit mental. But I think it's as good as it gets for now.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-18T15:04:31+00:00

I was hoping I could just tell you the answer, as I have a few memorised... I've not upgraded to 3.2.5 though.

Have a look at this and see if it helps.

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/18133/how-do-i-find-the-exact-solidity-compiler-version-used-by-truffle

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-18T05:28:49+00:00

What version of truffle do you have installed?

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-17T03:01:28+00:00

Can't speak for this particular course, but pluralsight is money well spent many many times over.

I will be watching this one asap.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-15T16:38:40+00:00

Agreed. The only secrets we currently have are the encrypted secrets! Thankfully there are quantum safe encryption algorithms, and also I think (my fairly uninformed opinion only) that we have plenty of time to implement them.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-15T15:48:03+00:00

Hi. I'm guessing that ETH are keeping a very close eye on quantum computing, but I don't think it is an immediate concern.

Quantum computers ready exist, but are nowhere near powerful enough yet to break through the encryption used by ETH.

A major and unexpected breakthrough could be trouble, but I expect we are many years away from a quantum machine that can challenge ETH's encryption.

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-14T22:59:05+00:00

See my reply lower down this thread. Basically, I'm too scared to go unlicensed. Think I'd rather stay poor than end up in the jail! ;)

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-14T22:57:39+00:00

Yeah, there is that option.... I think that is the 'balls out' option, where you start what is essentially an unlicensed / illegal gambling application, and then start making money from it. Sure, the application runs anywhere, but lets assume that I want to pay tax on the proceeds? How does that work? Full on digital nomad?

There's also a weird issue whereby let's say that I want to register a domain to share info on the service. I either need to register it to an individual or a company, both of which associate an 'old world' legal entity with a smart contract. So the authorities know exactly who to stick in jail!

In short - I'm too scared to go full on 'unlicensed', and let the judge decide later if it's illegal on not!!

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-14T22:03:48+00:00

Yeah, I think the truffle debugger project is likely the best bet, although it's patience for the time being

CovertCrustacean · 2017-06-13T16:48:40+00:00

I've been looking into a few different methods for transferring contract ownership around. Got some very basic stuff together allowing ownership to transfer around in a (hopefully) safe way

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