edilmedeiros on Nostr: Next week I'm attending Satsconf to talk about the gap between Bitcoin and the ...
Next week I'm attending Satsconf (npub1ze9…3pxq) to talk about the gap between Bitcoin and the Academia.
They say that to change academia is like moving a graveyard: you can't count with their inhabitants. This is true in so many aspects. Yet, I believe both communities could benefit from more interaction.
For academia, Bitcoin is a huge source of problems in the frontier of knowledge that require strong science. Also, it's an opportunity for working on real-world projects that will impact the lives of millions for good. Contributing to open source is an obvious way of returning the humongous investment all countries make in higher education in a meaningful way.
On the Bitcoin side, having some of the smartest brains around has the potential to accelerate the pace of innovation and security in many protocols.
This is not to say that Bitcoin needs the academic community, quite the contrary. If we, scholars, don't get out of the ivory tower and embrace the self-organizingethos of Bitcoin and related technologies, we will be obliterated by reality.
They say that to change academia is like moving a graveyard: you can't count with their inhabitants. This is true in so many aspects. Yet, I believe both communities could benefit from more interaction.
For academia, Bitcoin is a huge source of problems in the frontier of knowledge that require strong science. Also, it's an opportunity for working on real-world projects that will impact the lives of millions for good. Contributing to open source is an obvious way of returning the humongous investment all countries make in higher education in a meaningful way.
On the Bitcoin side, having some of the smartest brains around has the potential to accelerate the pace of innovation and security in many protocols.
This is not to say that Bitcoin needs the academic community, quite the contrary. If we, scholars, don't get out of the ivory tower and embrace the self-organizingethos of Bitcoin and related technologies, we will be obliterated by reality.
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Edil Medeiros é professor de engenharia e computação, instrutor do Bitcoin Dev Launchpad da Vinteum e co-host dos Bitdevs Brasília e Porto Alegre. Além disso, é autor da primeira disciplina universitária específica sobre o protocolo Bitcoin.
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