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by quuxplusone 226 days ago
Most crypto projects these days (and even Bitcoin, actually) are based on some kind of virtual machine. For example here's the first Google hit for "ethereum bytecode":

https://ethervm.io/

But writing smart contracts and whatnot directly in bytecode sucks; so, you make a compiler so you can write them in an (invented) higher-level language. For which you might as well hire a "compiler engineer" as any other kind. :)