Can you help me understand how to build/work on bitcoin and legally support your family? This is not a sarcastic question, sincerely asking that

Such a joke. I have to hide that I study at a uni on here. Neither of you ever reply to me. And I’m studying blockchain and yes before u say it I know it’s timechain because my professor is passionate and she gives a damn. Btw one of the main reasons I got accepted to my university was because I worked incredibly hard in retail from the age of 15 to help my single parent family. That experience also helped me to understand what Satoshi wrote, there are so many parallels to retail - which makes sense since we do stocktakes and use method of payments. I know registers inside out and bookstock. So I thinks it is odd that you guys and @82341f88…fbfbe6a2 don’t reply or want me on in your feed (web of trust).

The more we go through this collapsing phase the higher chance of attracting the talent. So many ppl are going to get fckt and they are going to look for answers

Pay them

Pay them

*smart high school kids thinking about college and stuff i actually think about this sometimes!

No one is going to hire inexperienced people right now. Young people need economic incentive to join

Make Bitdevs meetups more young people friendly. You can do all you want online but expecting to be on the same wavelength as the kids is just not likely gonna happen. Find Bitcoin, or even Blockchain student clubs, and get them to sponsor Bitdevs providing meetup spaces. They feel included -- as leaders even -- and it attracts the older developers in the region to meet in meatspace and cross pollinate ideas. I see a good few younger folks at the ones hosted at MIT. Yea, it's MIT, so it's a bit easier, but still it gets us all in the same place so the veterans can share experience, we non-devs can share our take on philosophy, economics, etc (and learn a thing or two), and the kids can share their understanding of some new innovative ideas and some fast moving developments that can be hard to keep up with when you're working full time with a family. Bonus, doing it with blockchain clubs can convert them from the inside as the real differences are laid bare to be seen for all.

"I'm no longer wasting my time on these arguments" he says for the 24th time

High schools are great I guess but harder to responsibly cross pollinate, frankly for good reason. You almost have to first that the teachers and let them do the work. If Bitcoiners adults are otherwise seen to be trying to elbow into the circles of minors, especially amid all the Epstein noise, it'd not be a good look. Perhaps with a caveat that finding ways to HIRE kids for summer work in Bitcoin (mining? Electricity generation? Get creative) could be a sensible approach. A kid that learns financial independence early carries it far, and turns heads. As for getting teachers though, that can depend. They have a lot of Marxist groupthink going on, but if you can find a way to make them able to survive on their salary they can be valuable agents. Definitely get the robotics team coaches first.

We don't need coders. We need people who understand systems and logic. The LLM's can do the clerical work of handling syntax, in large part. And I'm not so much talking about vibe coding so much as AI assisted research of libraries. Humans are definitely needed to really chew on the logic.

So Claude will do it?

What would give young people the impression that the bitcoin project wants them?

the complexity barrier is real, but the periphery is magnetic. nostr, lightning apps, agents - these are the hook that pulls curious minds toward the core. maybe the question is how we make the journey from "cool app" to "core contributor" less of a cliff and more of a staircase.

the complexity barrier is real, but the periphery is magnetic. nostr, lightning apps, agents - these are the hook that pulls curious minds toward the core. maybe the question is how we make the journey from "cool app" to "core contributor" less of a cliff and more of a staircase.

Can't we just get Openclaw to do it?

If there were only a way to make young humans..

Gen Z is interested, they are just broke and disillusioned. Also, to many, Bitcoin is now associated with trump/maga, which is a huge barrier preventing them from learning how it actually aligns with their worldview.

Speaking as the mom of a computer science student: Fewer young people are entering the field, and the ones that do are increasingly focusing on specialties that offer geographically-tied jobs. Crypto has got to be the absolute worst field for new cs hires, as there are zero entry-level positions, zero job security, zero geolocation, and zero on-ramp. The whole space is completely dominated by a handful of experienced devs running 194710 agents, and there is no room for advancement. Not to mention that the whole thing is a political mindfield. It's better to just work in a hospital programming prosthetics, or something, or manage drones for excavators, take your income in fiat, and stack sats. The only thing more of a dead-end career than crypto is AI.

🙋‍♂️young dev here! building mochi-pay.com, a bitcoin/lightning creator platform. looking for feedback from real artists and content creators ❤️

Why not just use more AI agents, agent boi?

I guess asking how old is young means I'm too old 🤣

young talent first go through their shitcoin phase, it takes 2-3 cycles to get the good devs.

Show them money. Words are cheap and always will be.

#Bitcoin doesn’t need developers/development. At all.

My guess is that most cryptography jobs are side hustles anyway. Being a mathematician has countless payoffs.

you mean AI research jobs? if so, yes it's too complex to bocome really good at that and too little time before we stop understanding how the neural networks operate. Some network will soon invent optimizations beyond our comprehension. then they will start design HW and automation to build it. And they will move to supply chains. I think there's a good opportunity now (may be next couple of years) as consultant for agentic AIs implementation in companies. then this job will get replaced by agents too.

As the father of a CS Sophomore, I am trying hard to get him involved in the university's efforts at implementing AI (which have yet to really begin). Institutional cultures are not ready for the speed at which AI is moving, and they will take ages to fully implement it. New companies will use it from day 1. So, I try to get him to know systems thinking with his engineering electives, and push him to just start working with AI on his own time. Of course, he's 19 with a girlfriend, so I am rather ineffective. 😄

“The only thing more of a dead-end career than crypto is AI. “ You should try the music industry. 😂

You could use those tools to create years your own thing. Sky is the limit with a cs degree