Friday, August 21st, 2020
You need to hire a CTO.
One guy has proven himself by leading a small but solid team over the past 3 years. He was integral in the launch of Bitcoin Cash and succeeded where other teams have failed. Prior to that, he has years of experience working at one of the biggest technology companies in the world. He has a tight roadmap for Bitcoin Cash and a plan to achieve it. He has given countless talks, and presentations, and interviews. His insights and experiences appear to be highly valued. You can be confident of being able to track him down if there's a problem because you know his actual name. But the problem is he doesn't play well with others, especially those he finds incompetent, which seems to happen quite often. He's stubborn, though some might argue he just has high standards. And he also comes with a cost. He wants to get paid, and he's asking for 8% of the coinbase reward to help build his team in order to finish the roadmap and turn BCH into world money. The bottom line is he's devoted the last several years of his life to a project that has seen him be underpaid and under appreciated. He's stayed despite this because he doesn't want to let people down, but now he's fed up. He knows he can't do it alone, and if you're not willing to pay, then he's willing to walk away.
On the other hand, you have this other guy. He actually helped the first guy create BCH but it's hard to say how much he contributed. You've never met or spoken to him. You don't know his real name. For all you know it's not a guy at all. He's never really demonstrated the extent of his knowledge of Bitcoin in the same way the first guy has. There are no presentations, or interviews to judge him on. If anything goes wrong, you have no idea if one day he just never responds. You don't know his background, or education, or if he's ever successfully led a team. But unlike the first guy, he's not trying to get paid. He plays nice with the other developers in the so called BCH "community". Never mind that many of those people who support him are the same developers who failed to launch big block Bitcoin before the French guy came around. Apparently the community thinks this guy exemplifies the ideals of Bitcoin because he's willing to work for donations. Sure he doesn't have a roadmap, or a proven track record, or a real life identity, but people really seem to like him.
Who would you hire?
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