10 sats \ 3 replies \ @tomlaies 2 May 2023 \ parent \ on: What's your level of expertise regarding Bitcoin? bitcoin
100% agreed with the first. Too many people just want to argue on Twitter. Too few people actually want to learn basics of cryptography (and math here).
Having opinions and soft skills is easy. Lack of a minimum of hard skills is a good indicator for disregarding irrelevant normies.
We use all these complicated made-up terms to easily tell if somebody actually knows what we are talking about
-- physics professor in a undergraduate course I took (not verbatim)
That quote really stuck with me
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I don't think this is true for cryptography. At least nothing comes to mind thinking about it rn.
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I think this quote was not meant super serious.
However, I think it has some truth to it which can be applied everywhere:
For example, just by asking simple questions (what is the block size of bitcoin? how is the 21M limit enforced?) you can easily dismiss people who want to argue about bitcoin but don't know the answers to these questions.
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