It's been over a year since I've joined the blockchain space. Tbh the work doesn't feel niche and the experience/skills that I've earned can easily be carried forward to my next SWE job. I really like working in blockchain. Lots of new protocols/algorithms that need to be modified for our network, working on distributed and scalable systems, systems level programming, working with different languages and frameworks. The only shortcoming is that the jobs available in blockchain are scarce, less paid for newcomers and most of the available ones just revolve around building upon existing blockchains ( dapp dev, defi products, NFTs etc). Now is there another role or field that entails the interesting parts that I've mentioned which I like about blockchain. I'd like to prepare myself for that. I seriously dont think I'll continue in blockchain unless someone can help me see a future. My goal is to move to a big tech company, not necessarily faang. Afaik IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are the only mainstream web 2.0 companies that are actually focusing on building distributed ledger technologies and not just building applications/services upon existing ones. Thanks for reading so far. I'm willing to provide more context. #engineering #blockchain #web3 #swe #distributedsystems
blockchain has no future because the only value it brings is trustlessness and trustlessness is a waste of energy. whatever applications anyone finds that "blockchain can do" can be better done and is probably already better done without blockchain. probably what you're looking for are things like doordash or uber, basically products that are actively used by millions of customers a day and therefore have to think about availability, scalability, dogfooding, etc
Yeah I think the last paragraph is what I was looking for. Now that I think of it, it does seem kinda boring at the thought that once I join a big company, I'll have to work on a single product for a couple of months/years. Unlike here where every few months, I can work on different components of the system.
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Not really man. Sure, the hype will go down and the blindly funded companies will take a hit, but companies that are actually solving the problem instead of finding problems to their solutions, these ones will survive.
no sadly they wont. its a ponzi scheme and now everyone figured it out. no one uses bitcoin for anything really except for trying to build that utopia that is really just making the early birds richer