3-2-1 - Friday July 9, 2021

3 - Inspiring crypto/blockchain quotes

“Bitcoin, and the ideas behind it, will be a disrupter to the traditional notions of currency. In the end, currency will be better for it.”
- Edmund Moy, Former Director of the United States Mint

“[Bitcoin] is a remarkable cryptographic achievement… The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value…Lot’s of people will build businesses on top of that.”
- Eric Schmidt, Former CEO, Google

“Blockchain is the tech. Bitcoin is merely the first mainstream manifestation of its potential.”
- Marc Kenigsberg, Founder of Bitcoin Chaser

2 - Reflections from this week’s blog posts

If you are interested in becoming a blockchain developer, the career and personal opportunities for you are immense. Not only is there currently a talent shortage, and not only is blockchain being adapted more and more each day by corporations and governments, but there are so many free ways to learn blockchain and coding online, making it easier than ever for someone to change careers and become a blockchain developer! To learn more, check out my blog post titled Five reasons why you should consider a career as a blockchain developer.

This past week has been one of ups-and-downs for cryptocurrency investors. Despite the market volatility and red days, this hasn’t discouraged crypto and blockchain developers from pushing forward with their amazing work. That’s one of the beautiful things about the crypto and blockchain community. Even when things aren’t looking good in the market, there is still so much good going on in the space, often behind the scenes, including amazing projects that continue to push forward and innovate.

1 - Quality educational resource

Unchained Podcast with Lara Shin

Unchained covers a wide array of topics related to crypto and blockchain, and features high quality guests who are prominent leaders in the crypto space.  Recent notable guests include Michael Saylor, Mayor of Miami Francis Suarez, Mark Cuban, and Gavin Wood. This podcast is released a couple of times a week and does a deeper dive into diverse and complex topics in the crypto and blockchain space.