| Hi, this is the story: September 2020 a friend called me, he told me that 3 guys are working on cryptocurrency. I knew one of the names, was a guy that stole a users database from an open source project, "but that was when he was a teenager". The project owner was a bank something (can't remember what). The other guys are devs. My friend was doing devops with another guy for them (a really nice guy, and smart as hell) I'm sysadmin, I don't like doing ops, and I'm a really good manager, they were calling me for that. Anyway, they start talking about the project, and my brother was doing an economics PhD talking about cryptocurrency. He started on that because me.. -_-, I loved the technology at the start, and how they improved the double-enrey bookkiping from Luca Pacioli and before. I called my brother to join us. He was glad and started to work with the owner. After some weeks were I was trying to organize them and see what the project was about I learned few things: They were doing a wallet to connect banks and cryptocurrency exchange
The project was delayed as hell.
The owner talks too much saying nothing.
They wanted to "become and exchange"
They were looking for funds. I wanted at least 2 more devs and wanted to see the code (nobody saw the code, just some presentations and demos, it was nice, but for me was basic) After another weeks without answers, and the owner talking to me about the shares I will get, I was seeing how less work i will be doing in few weeks (we had our git working, I was pushing the devs to push the code there, i was seeing old code all time, we had the infra and metrics running, etc) Anyway, they found a capital angel and they hired 3 marketing girls. They started to sell smoke. They meeting started to be more about marketing and getting money than tech. I was.., angry as hell I quit. My brother keeps working with them ("go out from there as soon as you can"), they are doing some cryptocurrency courses. The head dev disappear one day without push almost any code. I felt dirty, really disgusted with that people, not to much with the devs, not with the devops, but the owner, the marketing team (that was bigger than the dev+devops team) and with myself for months. They showed to me something I really don't like about economy and markets. It is really hard to me to think about working on that area again, they looks like scammers, and I saw them thinking about that. Have a good day. |