Innovation

The blockchain developer

Blockchain is the buzzword of yesterday, today and into the future, making it a must-have career opportunity.

13 June 2019

Once upon a time, there was a thing called a Bitcoin that was built upon the foundations of a technology known as blockchain. Blockchain took the industry and shook it like a dog after the rain, or took it by storm, whichever damp cliché works.

Here was this technology that was transparent, decentralised and time-stamped, a technology that could be used across any industry, myriad applications, and capable of disrupting all sorts of companies and ideas. Today, blockchain is so popular that, according to US firm Hired, a blockchain developer can now command an average of $127 000 while the more experienced individual is looking at upwards of $172 000 per year. Lucrative doesn’t even begin to cover the shiny apple that is the future of anyone who enters into blockchain development. But what is it, what value does it offer and what kind of person should ideally be drawn into this role?

ITWeb Premium

Get 3 months of unlimited access
No credit card. No obligation.

Already a subscriber Log in