Who would you choose?

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4 years ago

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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If ABC removed the IFP, miners and users would flock back to it. That’s the part so smelly that nobody wants it and willing to run a version without...

Just sayin..

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4 years ago

If amaury did ask, I would maybe consider hiring him. He is not asking. He does not care if the shareholders want him. He threatens them.

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4 years ago

Then you were not listening, which would make perfect sense.

ABC clearly for years "asked" for money and even "acted" on "feedback and suggestions", such as increasing PR and giving people a business plan. Nothing happened. Don't even try to claim he would have gotten anything, as it was clear and DIRECTLY spilled out for everyone for a long ass time, that ABC is underfunded and needs money and is willing to try the "donation based model" for years even though they knew it was bullshit to begin with.

I think it is shameful and disgusting, that you are actually saying you "would have considered". YOU DIDN'T. It's a fact. Stop making up stuff.

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4 years ago

im sorry, probably my fault that you didn't get what im talking about. i try once more. Yes he was asking for money. He was never asking about what the shareholders want him to do. And that is precisely the difference between a CTO and a tyrant. He never asked us to hire him as our CTO, he asked us to hire him as our tyrant. https://read.cash/@tula_s/briefly-on-governance-ff06770f

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4 years ago

I choose a large number of collaborating enthusiastic developers and researchers, not the single feet dragging king.

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4 years ago

Relevant article as usual, but it is sad to see that people prefer to choose the unknown person than the well-known despite he is, as all human, not perfect. Thanks for trying to inform people on the mistake they are doing

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4 years ago

I choose freetrader.

(but he's not alone: I also follow Mark Lunderberg, John Nieri and others)

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4 years ago

Here I have responded to your article: https://read.cash/@Telesfor/who-would-i-choose-0ddb1625

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4 years ago

You would think that this is self-explanatory and that you don't need Cain to prechew this for you. This is not complicated.

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4 years ago

WHOM would you choose

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4 years ago

Nice one.. I already subscribed to you. Keep posting. Hope you will do same for me

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4 years ago

I choose to hire the person with skills and contributed most, with great visions on road mapping Bitcoin Cash as world money and who would not based on donations. Even he don't talk a lot, his skills talked for him. 😄

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4 years ago

Who would you hire?

No one. This is not a 1950s corporation but a 2020s distributed enterprise.

Wrong paradigm!

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4 years ago

The old adage "actions speak louder than words" applies here. You're suggesting he's fed up and willing to leave, but he's clearly not, or he could have simply said "as of (x date) ABC will be out of funding and (x people) will lose their jobs." That's what someone willing to walk away would have done. Maybe funds would have come afterwards, maybe they wouldn't have, but you're ignoring the fact that he's now trying to force his will. How often do you hire people who blackmail you to hire them? It's generally not advisable, you know.

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