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Ask HN: Is it worth learning Solidity in 2021?

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Re: Ask HN: Is it worth learning Solidity in 2021?

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Smart contract Audits and creation is pretty lucrative, with payment for work generally in a currency that's not in a period of 'Transitory Inflation'. I've been learning rust/ substrate tho, ETH is a bit dated by now.

Any advice for someone looking to get into the field?

Re: Ask HN: Is it worth learning Solidity in 2021?

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I think smart contracts are here to stay.

However, I'd instead check out Cardano's (ADA) Plutus platform [0]. It's a subset of Haskell as I understand it. They have a online playground to simulate contracts [1].

Cardano also has a ERC-20 converter [2], so expect a lot of projects to also move to Cardano (given the much lower fees and higher throughput) when smart contracts are released in August/September.

0. https://docs.cardano.org/projects/plutus/en/latest/plutus/ex...

1. https://playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/

2. https://cointelegraph.com/news/cardano-erc-20-converter-near...

Re: Ask HN: Is it worth learning Solidity in 2021?

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I think smart contracts are here to stay. However, I'd instead check out Cardano's (ADA) Plutus platform [0]. It's a subset of Haskell as I understand it. They have a online playground to simulate contracts [1]. Cardano also has a ERC-20 converter [2], so expect a lot of projects to also move to Cardano (given the much lower fees and higher throughput) when smart contracts are released in August/September. 0. https:/…

Cardano contracts won’t be released until August.. optimistically.

Re: Ask HN: Is it worth learning Solidity in 2021?

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post #3

Smart contract Audits and creation is pretty lucrative, with payment for work generally in a currency that's not in a period of 'Transitory Inflation'. I've been learning rust/ substrate tho, ETH is a bit dated by now.

> payment for work generally in a currency that's not in a period of 'Transitory Inflation' And instead in a currency that's in a period of 'Transitory Panic Selloff'.

haha, touche.

"Dad, how come we are poor" "Well you see son, when i was younger I traded all my real money for fake online tokens because i thought it'd make me a millionaire"

In all fairness, if you didn't take some profit over the last 6 months the fault lies within.

Re: Ask HN: Is it worth learning Solidity in 2021?

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Smart contract Audits and creation is pretty lucrative, with payment for work generally in a currency that's not in a period of 'Transitory Inflation'. I've been learning rust/ substrate tho, ETH is a bit dated by now.

You can do any kind of work and once paid convert it to ETH so getting paid in it is no difference (I’d say it is more inconvenient as you need to convert some to fiat and then deal with taxes)

Well, most blockchains pay in their native token. Most of these companies are have $B's next to their market cap but are very cash poor.

Re: Ask HN: Is it worth learning Solidity in 2021?

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post #3

Smart contract Audits and creation is pretty lucrative, with payment for work generally in a currency that's not in a period of 'Transitory Inflation'. I've been learning rust/ substrate tho, ETH is a bit dated by now.

Any advice for someone looking to get into the field?

Read the rust book, learn substrate and ink.
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