I’m Daniel. I’m living in Japan and currently working on a SaaS as a CTO of a startup. I have a blockchain background as well. Specifically, I used to develop smart contracts on Ethereum. Which kind of let me to this community. I found this community through the podcast show Rationally Speaking, which I found when Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum) was on it.
I’m a self-taught programmer so I don’t have experience in academia but I would like to be involved in this community and academia in general.
I’m interested in a lot of topics that are talked about in this community, but I would especially like to learn more about how academia works, and what the dynamics are like in the context of the relation to startups, scientific/technological evolution, and evolution of society in general. I was born in Canada and moved to Japan when I was one year old, so I’m looking forward to being involved with the LW community in Japan as well!
The last time I worked on smart contracts is almost 2 years ago so I’m definitely not qualified to give you advice now, but I hope this would be useful in some way.
I think Solidity has the most mature ecosystem of libraries/development tools, but other new languages like Vyper have that additional security/modern features which were adapted by learning from (the mistakes of) other older languages. (I might be wrong)
Solidity shouldn’t be a hard language to learn, so just giving it a try and see how you feel about it could be a good option!
I do have a similar experience in turning down a job. I got a job offer in the DeFi space, but I turned it down since it wasn’t much aligned with what I want to do long term.
Hi!
I’m Daniel. I’m living in Japan and currently working on a SaaS as a CTO of a startup. I have a blockchain background as well. Specifically, I used to develop smart contracts on Ethereum. Which kind of let me to this community. I found this community through the podcast show Rationally Speaking, which I found when Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum) was on it.
I’m a self-taught programmer so I don’t have experience in academia but I would like to be involved in this community and academia in general.
I’m interested in a lot of topics that are talked about in this community, but I would especially like to learn more about how academia works, and what the dynamics are like in the context of the relation to startups, scientific/technological evolution, and evolution of society in general.
I was born in Canada and moved to Japan when I was one year old, so I’m looking forward to being involved with the LW community in Japan as well!
Welcome!
Do you have thoughts on Solidity as opposed to Vyper? I’ve been learning Chialisp, and after which I want to focus on Solidity.
Hi!
The last time I worked on smart contracts is almost 2 years ago so I’m definitely not qualified to give you advice now, but I hope this would be useful in some way.
I think Solidity has the most mature ecosystem of libraries/development tools, but other new languages like Vyper have that additional security/modern features which were adapted by learning from (the mistakes of) other older languages. (I might be wrong)
Solidity shouldn’t be a hard language to learn, so just giving it a try and see how you feel about it could be a good option!
Hi Samuel! Nice to meet you too!
Yes, it would be nice if we can connect.
I do have a similar experience in turning down a job. I got a job offer in the DeFi space, but I turned it down since it wasn’t much aligned with what I want to do long term.
You can DM me anytime!