[LatteLazy]

It used to be a field dominated by tech (yay!). But increasingly a mix of idiots who just act like they have some inside knowledge and management types have taken over.

About 5 years ago I worked at London Stock Exchange. Our division did transaction reporting and I followed crypto out of interest. I was called to an urgent meeting and told our division was launching a crypto unit to make products on blockchain. What products? I asked. "We don't know, just find something, the division upstairs have one and we don't want to be seen as behind" was the answer after about 60minutes of careful questioning. Queue 101 meetings on crypto, often with expensive external "experts" who didn't understand mining or thought blockchain was bitcoin etc.

The fastest way to turn techies against a techis for it to become "fashionable" and therefore be shoehorned into things it isn't good for used as an excuse to waste money on non-sense by people who know no better but somehow control the decisions and the cash.

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