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@ mike
2025-05-09 16:19:25
So, you’re a long term Core dev.
You’ve been in Bitcoin long enough that your stash is going to support you and your family at any level you wish for the rest of your life. Your new girlfriend has driven your Lambo to the hardware store to pick up some nice furnishings for your home office and you’re sitting there looking at Core’s code.
Some people may turn off the monitor, go and buy a beach front property, a set of golf clubs and spend the rest of their lives drinking piña colada’s by the pool.
Others seek meaning and purpose within their lives. For these, Core coding is all they know and they are good at it, so they continue contributing to the one thing in their lives, outside of family, with meaning.
A few years go by and they get an email. It’s from a billion dollar global corp. They’ve seen your work and like it. They’d like to offer you a job as CTO in their company. They want you to come and tell them stuff they don’t know so the company can be even more successful and grow.
Suddenly, guys in suits want to talk to you, they are interested in you and respect the things you say. This is a new feeling, you’ve never had it before. Suddenly, you feel important, you feel vindicated and needed in the real world. You like it, you accept the 6 figure pay cheque, but that’s not the important bit. It’s the job title and kudos and the team of people that now follow your instructions. You have power and respect.
Money doesn’t buy that.
This is better than money.
Hey CTO, we were thinking, that setting in Bitcoin Core, it’s stopping us doing this thing we’d like to do. Do you think you could get that changed. It won’t affect the way Bitcoin works.
Sure you say, logging onto Github now boss.