https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber

In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California. She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, Washington, where she soldered bitcoin mining equipment. In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.

So lately I have been trying to figure out why people are calling BlueSky decentralized and I noticed that fun fact. It made me realize how cryptocurrencies are something else that was often technically “decentralized” but in reality controlled by a single person or group.

In case it’s also not known, Jack Dorsey who helped found BlueSky is a big cryptocurrency booster.

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    2 days ago

    So? She was a junior engineer, probably just needed the money to scrape by. You’ve never worked low level roles at morally questionable companies?

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      21 hours ago

      started my career as a developer working for an adult entertainment industry company (porn) so yeah. Everything I know today is from titties and the bang bus.

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        We all have bills at the end of the day, and I’m a firm believer that there are no moral companies. I’d love to drop everything and work for a non profit who only does good, but turns out my bank still expects me to pay the mortgage.

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      2 days ago

      As I brought up in the title of my post, she’s currently the highest level role at a morally questionable company. She has a pattern of behavior of working at morally questionable companies.

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        2 days ago

        You weren’t talking about that, you only brought up the crypto role, you made it the title of the post. You want to talk about blue sky alone? Make a separate post about that. Her junior engineer experience in crypto is an irrelevant footnote in her career.