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Re: Show HN: JobInChain – Find a Job as a Blockchain Developer

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Post by scardine »

eksemplar wrote: post #7
option_greek wrote: post #5

Interesting to see that most decentralized developer positions require centralized location (no remote) as a requirement :)

Most Blockchain projects heading for actual production aren’t decentralized though. Maersk may be heading toward running container ownership claims on Blockchain tech, but they will be in full control of the network and the deciding nodes.

Honest question for someone more knowledgeable about the subject than myself: if you are not decentralized (in the authority sense), why would you pick a blockchain-based solution instead of a more traditional distributed database?

Sometimes it looks like people throw blockchain in a project not on technical merits but because they think the buzzword is a VC magnet.

Re: Show HN: JobInChain – Find a Job as a Blockchain Developer

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Post by slv20n »

decorator wrote: post #8

Was there a reason you decided to focus on a subset of consensus protocols? I.e, only blockchains v. blockchains, DAGs, hashgraphs, and any new protocols that may appear.

No there's no reason. It's just that there are more offers currently for blockchain like Ethereum.

Maybe you are right and i should be more open to other consensus protocols.

I will keep that in mind, thank you for you feedback !

Re: Show HN: JobInChain – Find a Job as a Blockchain Developer

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Post by slv20n »

cgopalan wrote: post #10
slv20n wrote: post #3

Hi HN, I have been working on this job board for blockchain related tech jobs. I keep it as simple as possible but i will improve it with some feature (like filters) from feedback that i can gather. I hope some of you will find this project usefull, and, of course, i'm staying available if you have any suggestions.

Nice work. What is the source for these jobs? And do you scrape the sites or use APIs provided by the sources (if they do). Just curious. Thanks!

Thank you for your feedback!

For now it's a mix of me posting offer i cand find and business owner publishing for their company.

I have to work more to make the recruiter more aware of my plateform right now.

Re: Show HN: JobInChain – Find a Job as a Blockchain Developer

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Post by vomitcuddle »

scardine wrote: post #11
eksemplar wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most Blockchain projects heading for actual production aren’t decentralized though. Maersk may be heading toward running container ownership claims on Blockchain tech, but they will be in full control of the network and the deciding nodes.

Honest question for someone more knowledgeable about the subject than myself: if you are not decentralized (in the authority sense), why would you pick a blockchain-based solution instead of a more traditional distributed database? Sometimes it looks like people throw blockchain in a project not on technical merits but because they think the buzzword is a VC magnet.

>Sometimes it looks like people throw blockchain in a project not on technical merits but because they think the buzzword is a VC magnet.

That's because they do. A Blockchain without decentralization (and therefore no need for proof-of-work consensus) is functionally just an immutable, append-only object database - the same sort of data structure that any modern, distributed source code version control system (like Git) has always used, before "Blockchain" was even a thing.

Re: Show HN: JobInChain – Find a Job as a Blockchain Developer

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Post by codetrotter »

Ninn wrote: post #9
eksemplar wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most Blockchain projects heading for actual production aren’t decentralized though. Maersk may be heading toward running container ownership claims on Blockchain tech, but they will be in full control of the network and the deciding nodes.

So.. you mean developing and using a really shitty, slow and expensive database cluster?

Does it need to be slow and shitty? Couldn’t “blockchain technology” in the context just refer to it being an immutable log? If the nodes are controlled by one entity there is no point in doing proof-of-work for consensus for example.

IMO there is a difference between “blockchain” and “blockchain technology”. The latter means taking parts of or inspiration from how blockchains are built.

Even if the technology is not be specific to the blockchain originally, blockchain still helped bring these ideas into the minds of the masses and so I think it is fair to characterize some of these things as “blockchain technology” when that is how some people came to know of them.

Re: Show HN: JobInChain – Find a Job as a Blockchain Developer

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Post by vomitcuddle »

codetrotter wrote: post #17
Ninn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So.. you mean developing and using a really shitty, slow and expensive database cluster?

Does it need to be slow and shitty? Couldn’t “blockchain technology” in the context just refer to it being an immutable log? If the nodes are controlled by one entity there is no point in doing proof-of-work for consensus for example. IMO there is a difference between “blockchain” and “blockchain technology”. The latter means taking parts of or inspiration from how blockchains are built. Even if the technology is not…

>IMO there is a difference between “blockchain” and “blockchain technology”. The latter means taking parts of or inspiration from how blockchains are built.

>Even if the technology is not be specific to the blockchain originally, blockchain still helped bring these ideas into the minds of the masses and so I think it is fair to characterize some of these things as “blockchain technology” when that is how some people came to know of them.

What you just described here, when done to obtain money or publicity - is often referred to as "charlatanism".

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