Re:Ask HN: Will my Bitcoin open source contributions count a...
by srdev on Monday January 05, 2015 @05:36PM
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It probably won't be a problem. Don't be an evangelist, and be even-keeled about how you talk about your projects. Discuss what made them interesting and the technical challenges you had with them. There's not a lot of hate for Bitcoin the technology, just the die-hard advocates that it attracts (i.e. the kind that throws penny shavings at people via changetip and talks about how the blockchain will bring about a utopian anarcho-capitalist society, end-the-fed-ron-paul-2016)
As long as you keep it technical and keep the non-technical stuff to yourself, it will be beneficial (and you should really do that for any topic in a technical interview). As an ancedote, I certainly wouldn't have any problems hiring someone with Bitcoin work, and my post history shows that I'm pretty skeptical of Bitcoin.
As long as you keep it technical and keep the non-technical stuff to yourself, it will be beneficial (and you should really do that for any topic in a technical interview). As an ancedote, I certainly wouldn't have any problems hiring someone with Bitcoin work, and my post history shows that I'm pretty skeptical of Bitcoin.