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Interesting to see that most decentralized developer positions require centralized location (no remote) as a requirement :)
As a sidenote, I see a lot of "normie" devs (as in formerly working for "big data", "cloud" etc. projects) joining blockchain startups suddenly.
Dear developers, stop defining yourself with the technology you work with. Instead define yourself based on what you believe in and stand for.
Interesting to see that most decentralized developer positions require centralized location (no remote) as a requirement :)
I agree and it's not just for developers, also non technical roles. But I've found that these crypto startups do actually seem to offer more remote opportunities than your conventional startup. This job board is pretty good in terms of remote crypto jobs https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co/remote/engineering/
This is useful, but the naming is quite unappealing :) As a sidenote, I see a lot of "normie" devs (as in formerly working for "big data", "cloud" etc. projects) joining blockchain startups suddenly.
You didn't like the name ?
And yes there are a lot of devs that seem to have interest in blockchain.
Dear developers, stop defining yourself with the technology you work with. Instead define yourself based on what you believe in and stand for.
what if you stand for blockchain or you believe in big data.
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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.
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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.
Instead of "proof of stake" as the consensus model, you could build a "consortium blockchain" where other parties (ie your big customers) get to validate the blocks themselves in addition to your servers. "Proof of authority" or "delegated proof of stake" are consensus models for this approach. This would be helpful if you want the data to be private but you want to increase trust within your platform.
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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 G…