The jack of all trades are making 7 figures building “DeFi” infrastructure
You just deploy a smart contract that helps people simplify a more complex task and your code takes a few percentage points
No overhead costs, incorporation, lawyers, banks etc necessary
Never been easier to make money
Basically the key concept that appeared this year is called “composability” where the outputs of one operation can be used as inputs of the next operation, so this is analogous to the interchangeable parts era of the industrial revolution
Smart contracts are extremely limited in the kinds of operations they can do, with most data structures algorithms being too expensive so you never have to employ the bullshit technical questions or any academic knowledge
But you probably should read a book like O’Reilly’s “Mastering Ethereum”. Ethereum introduces a concept called an “EVM” (like JVM) which is used on several more platforms that arent called Ethereum, so you should be familiar with that.
Oh! You also dont need to be distracted by:
“Consensus model ideology”
“I could use a database for this”
or any other self limiting thing.
because “you could also make money”
Lets be honest you were probably going to work for some ad tech startup anyway, all crypto projects have just as little utility for the world while possibly having the argument for much more utility, and you dont have to pretend like you are an investor that wont get zeroed out by VC liquidity preferences