Where do companies get their "Bitcoin experts" from?

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Quote from: Mt. Gox on June 16, 2019, 01:29:45 AM

That's what I suspected. Being a blockchain developer today is like being an aerospace engineer in 1910 or a web developer in 1992.

I am not telling that this is not happening, people who have a computer degree and have knowledge about blockchain are considered as an expert Cheesy

, what i know personally from my former colleagues last year is that major IT companies like Infosys and TCS started picking people from their ranks and started educating them about the new technology and formed a team to explore about the possibilities about blockchain and to come up with new projects.

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Depends on the business and what they're offering. Their in house expert may not fit our definition of an expert but if it works for them that's what really matters and I think that's the only they really care about. Judging from the limited criteria that they need to get the job done I would doubt whether that term is actually meant more than anything than to impress their customers and investors alike.

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Quote from: Ucy on June 16, 2019, 02:37:17 PM

I guess they pick those who are experts in computer science, software engineering/programming and give them short training in blockchain technology. Or maybe they are secretly training this people lol.

The numbers scare me a little bit considering that they are coming from the big companies while the decentralized community who believe in this technology has few experts

Yeah i am sure they pick those people who are expert in computer or in IT field..

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Quote from: Kakmakr on June 25, 2019, 02:21:00 AM

Considering that there are 1000s of Alt coins out there and that each of these Alt coins have a small team of software developers looking after these coins, then you will understand where some of these so-called experts are coming from.

if this is actually the case here, then they shouldn't call them "experts" because 90% of them are simply copying code from each other and have little to no understanding of programming. in fact most of the altcoins, specially the tokens, are created by people who read some step by step walk through explaining how they could copy code!!!

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Considering that there are 1000s of Alt coins out there and that each of these Alt coins have a small team of software developers looking after these coins, then you will understand where some of these so-called experts are coming from.

A lot of these people also work on a part-time basis for these companies and move from one company to the next after they completed their projects.

Many Computer science students like yourself is working on their own Alt coins as a side hobby and these students later move on to specialize in Blockchain based projects like this. Wink

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Or do these companies just treat anyone with a computer science degree to be an expert? (Heck, I'm a computer science student. Can I be a Bitcoin expert too?)

a degree is necesary to become an bitcoin expert but you also need to know about the ins and outs of bitcoin like what is bitcoin and how does it works . i know a few bitcoin experts but those people are famous . i guess being popular also plays a vital role of becoming an expert because people will easily recognize and believe on what you are saying .

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Quote from: akeegan on June 17, 2019, 01:16:14 PM

Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly qualified Dave Jevans of CEO of Ciphertrace as a testifying expert on Bitcoin in a Canadian court in a 2015 court case. Jevans has also been called upon to solve some of the world's largest crypto crimes and dark web markets.

This is even more interesting for me. Companies can find anyone online and pay them a few bucks to represent them (or in the case of John McAfee a few hundred thousand dollars). I open those ICObench experts and I feel like throwing up. But courts, I wonder where they find them and how do they identify them as experts? Very interesting I bet!

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In fact, there are not so many blockchain experts.Nevertheless, their number is growing (as is the market).Specifically, in the case of the company that hired 400 blockchain experts,I think there are many disagreements.This company simply hired 400 people who will be associated with a cryptocurrency. And for public relations, the managers of this company equated everyone to the blockchain experts.

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PricewaterCooper is a financial auditing firm. Well being an expert is a big word which has to do with relevant education background, Skills and long years of working experience. Recently, I have come across many Universities especially in Europe offering courses in blockchain technology at Msc level. However, I still do not think we have some group of individual that we can be termed 'bitcoin expert' except the person is the original developers but rather blockchain programmers. Probably PWC has recruited some BTT users from the ANN thread Grin

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I think being an expert in this field goes beyond developing crypto currencies as blockchain is very wide and diverse. There are quite a number of experts here in their own right

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2 Months of willingfull learning and you can be a Expert in Blockchain.. that is if you know coding beforehand

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Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly qualified Dave Jevans of CEO of Ciphertrace as a testifying expert on Bitcoin in a Canadian court in a 2015 court case. Jevans has also been called upon to solve some of the world's largest crypto crimes and dark web markets.

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Quote from: Mt. Gox on June 16, 2019, 01:29:45 AM

They're a big accounting firm based in the UK. They tend to be more involved with consulting/advising/auditing the financial matters of a business rather than market speculation. Their clients are usually large businesses and corporations.

They are accounting firms, so their definition of blockchain expert may be a little different from what we know. It could be that to them, "blockchain experts" are those who have knowledge on how blockchain works, its intricacies but do not necessarily need to be a coder or developer. Though I agree that "Expert" here is an oversell.

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Just saying on my own. Blockchain experts are the term used for developers who focus on blockchain technology. They automatically considered as experts since they are only a few that developed and mastered blockchain technology. But it is correct, blockchain does not always mean bitcoin or cryptocurrency. It's about the frameworks and the algorithm the blockchain had.

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There are blockchain courses from reputable universities now, so maybe completing a few of those is a requirement? "Expert" might be an oversell, but considering how new and small the field is, there really isn't much to learn about it. Even the earliest contributors only really looked at the code and built from it, so it's not exactly rocket science.

You could probably market yourself as an expert once you get working knowledge of the code.

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I think they already have an expert and that determines the range of the knowledge of their new hirees. There will be a training but as long as they have knowledge about the technology I think they are considering it as an expert and it's a plus factor that they have programming skills in different PLs.

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Expert is just an experienced specialist. It is not necessary to have a scientific degree or worldwide recognition to be considered an expert in cryptocurrencies/blockchains.

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It's more of picking experts in general computer science, blockchain and technology experts. That amount looks too vague for only crypto experts. I believe it's more diversified than what was stated. I know more people are coming into the crypto space.

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Maybe that's too strong a word. The real experts on bitcoin are its creators. And the rest are just people who have been working with crypto for a long time and know some of its subtleties. That is, they are called experts because of their experience.

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I guess they pick those who are experts in computer science, software engineering/programming and give them short training in blockchain technology. Or maybe they are secretly training this people lol.

The numbers scare me a little bit considering that they are coming from the big companies while the decentralized community who believe in this technology has few experts

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