My current job by talking to a friend/pre work college now college again.
But my search strategy changed over time.
1. My network was much smaller 10 years ago and I knew a lot less local companies.
Now I also Google around for companies I would like to work for. Like Google, GitHub, Netflix etc.
I also research what company is doing what I think is good for society like agriculture and automatiosation.
Currently I'm slightly stuck as my company allows remote work a d I want to buy a farm. So I'm not sure if I can jump continents (like USA) to work on bigger agriculture projects or if the farm and remote work will be more of my thing.
I also focus much more on the people I would work with and ask about the team etc.
But I also looked through ALL job postings in my city to get a better feeling what is out there. Probably I read 1000 job postings last time I was searching.
My Tipp: start with one two super unrealistic dream job companies than move to your top choice more realistic companies.
You don't want to get an offer from your 5th choice while still stuck in the hiring process for your dream job.
I would still quit a new job if the Dre job suddenly comes up.
Independent of this: "We should be trying to figure out the right path out of this mess. "
For me I'm fine on thinking about how to solve the climate crisis before I will spend energy on solving crypto issues but that's something every one has to decide for themselves.
Fixing climate change will be more beneficial for everyone who has kids and/or likes his/her family members kids or kids from friends.
Which I do.
I think overall people would prefer less energy costs, more food and more water and less extreme weather before crypto but that's just my guess.
But at least on hn I'm reading more about crypto than that.
In the current situation with this amount of information it could be a lot of different things.
Also from a statistical standpoint it's totally valid that this event happened now as it could just mean that a similar event is not happening for the next 50 years.
My point I'm trying to make: the original comment indicates to me that we need to worry. For me it conveys much more speculation than I think is reasonable right now.
For example they were also not expecting to have such a great optical resolution.
I'm not sure if your first point is a necessity for other perhaps good ideas.
They will either not make those notes or only do one batch due to it just being a novelty in it's current state.
For me it feels like 'blind entrepreneur + we want to ship + we need to ship for more funding'.
I would even like to support weird ideas if it wouldn't promote Bitcoin usage :-(
I think your second point is more interesting: why do you think this digital to analog transition will be a thing?
Even in Zimbabwe they already have 50% smartphones and those are only getting cheaper and cheaper and will continue to flood the market.
My future imagines a smartphone only world for everything. From money, to house and car key. Germany now allows your passport or driver license on your phone.
I think it will be much more interesting how we can make smartphone theft obsolete and phone recovery easy. Like how do I regain my phone's state when I loose it while traveling.
You can see it as an idiotic PoW for all those people working in those banks.
It's easy to make it renewable with benefits to us. The solar panel on a bank building is giving energy to people.
And I'm not saying that the current banking system is perfect (it actually optimizes itself quite well) but it has much more features while Bitcoin/crypto doesn't have real solutions for huge issues.
Fraud, scams, money laundry, investment tools, sepa, bank account recovery, global market regulations, sanctions Support etc.
And it does all of that with billions and billions of assets.
While Bitcoin consumes energy.
In an utopian society we don't need banks and no PoW crypto but that's not what is critical now.
Besides aluminum smelter, due to high energy costs there are other critical industry affected as well: paper making and glass making. Bottles for example.
While this is still the wrong approach, better than nothing.
Why is it wrong? Because BTC still produces co2 with renewable. It competes with much more critical energy consumers like heating and day to day life.
It still produces tons of hardware garbage.
What we need is a Bitcoin mining co2 tax.
Bitcoins deconnected market needs to be connected to the normal energy market. Currently Bitcoin is competing with aluminium makers and all others but with total randomes
And before someone tells me that everyone can do with there energy whatever they want: climate change affects us all. We already have big issues but at least Bitcoin doesn't solve any with it's huge co2 footprint.
And yes you! Also need cheap aluminum heating gas for your car. Don't think you are not affected negatively by Bitcoin!
My strategy is to work as long as I can and have to.
Have to means having no debt,.my own land and low living costs. Basically being independent. Then using my career to work 50% with a good salary remote.
If I would not do that, I would do the same as you and look for something good to work on.
For me I would go and find a company which does things for agriculture or other things which helps us all.
Either you can use the internet than you don't need that note.
You need internet to actually verify and take ownership of the value of it.
It only helps if the giver doesn't have internet.
And sure it's easier to smuggle this one note over a border than a suitcase bout you could smuggle actually anything with an offline wallet in it like USB stick, CD etc.
But my search strategy changed over time.
1. My network was much smaller 10 years ago and I knew a lot less local companies.
Now I also Google around for companies I would like to work for. Like Google, GitHub, Netflix etc.
I also research what company is doing what I think is good for society like agriculture and automatiosation.
Currently I'm slightly stuck as my company allows remote work a d I want to buy a farm. So I'm not sure if I can jump continents (like USA) to work on bigger agriculture projects or if the farm and remote work will be more of my thing.
I also focus much more on the people I would work with and ask about the team etc.
But I also looked through ALL job postings in my city to get a better feeling what is out there. Probably I read 1000 job postings last time I was searching.
My Tipp: start with one two super unrealistic dream job companies than move to your top choice more realistic companies.
You don't want to get an offer from your 5th choice while still stuck in the hiring process for your dream job.
I would still quit a new job if the Dre job suddenly comes up.