I'm from Europe but I'm looking for remote work (not willing to relocate).

Hey there,

I'm a software eng. with 7+ years of experience in production systems (lately I'm in the DevOps and SRE sections). My main experience is with Go & Ruby but I'm willing to learn and use any language. Recently I've been thinking to switch to a Bitcoin-related job. I've never done any Bitcoin development - until now I'm merely someone who's fascinated by the technology challenges and the social and political impact Bitcoin has.

Are there any known solid companies looking to hire solid engineers but without prior experience with Bitcoin development? Any advice in general?

Thanks in advance!

Excellent advice, thanks! So you suggest parsing the files that bitcoind generates in the data directory?

How else can you be sure that no coins outside of the schedule were introduced (e.g. due to a bug)? How else can you be sure that there wasn't any double spend throughout history? Most importantly, how else you can keep an account of how much coins each address has (without depending on a trusted 3rd-party)?

Excuse me. I guess I'm looking for advice related specific to Bitcoin development (the protocol, the cryptography, the network), as opposed to generic programming advice. An example would be "don't try to roll your own crypto library, use library X" vs. "don't use OOP".

As for the language, I'm going to go with Go.

Thanks!

Thanks for the advice anyone! It's encouraging.

To clarify: I'm not looking for implementation details (e.g. programing paradigms or which programming language to choose) but "meta" advice like "careful of endianess when writing/reading messages from the wire".

Hello,

I'm a software engineer that wants to get started with Bitcoin development. Until now I've read the whitepaper and the recent Schnorr & Taproot proposals. That said, I've never actually used a full node, besides of one bitcoind instance that I've set up on a Raspberry (but never used it as a wallet). Generally, I'd say I'm familiar with the basics (how it all comes together).

I thought of implementing a (non-mining) full node from scratch as a way to learn the ins and outs of the protocol, the network and the Script language.

I've gathered some resources that I think could be useful:

- https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
- https://github.com/jonatack/bitcoin-development/
- btcd codebase (because I'm experienced with Go)

So I'd like to ask: what you generally think about this idea? Do you have any tips you could share? Or do you know any other good resources that could help?

Thanks in advance