[2018-10-19] How the Electric Vehicle Industry Could Drive Cryptocurrency Forwar

[Jgilpulg]

Right now, the talent shortage of programmers capable of working with COBOL is acutely affecting the banking, fintech, and most emerging industries.

https://bitcoinist.com/crypto-electric-vehicle-experience-talent/

[d5000]

We don't know if the programmers' shortage is only caused by the hype of 2017 and early 2018, or if it's a problem that will persist. Most of the new jobs the article mentions  were probably related to the ICO/altcoin industry, which lost ground dramatically this year. I think in a few months the demand for programmers in the altcoin sector will normalize.

On the other hand, Bitcoin itself does seem to have a certain programming talent shortage - for example, the severe bug we witnessed only weeks ago (CVE-2018–17144) could have exploited during more than a year, and should have been spotted and fixed much earlier. The problem is that ICO projects may have paid programmers better than what's possible to earn within the Bitcoin project (and Bitcoin itself doesn't pay the developers at all, companies like Blockstream fill that gap).

By the way, the article does not explain the question raised in its title at all - it's not describing what the electric vehicle industry did to solve the programmer shortage problem.