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This is all the information requested from your proposal form on Upwork. Please let me know if there's anything else I can get you.

Response to Opportunity at Veritaseum

COVER LETTER:

When I first read your job posting, I was surprised at the rigor of your submittal process. Nevertheless, it stuck out at me. The next day, I realized how much I appreciated it. So I began reading about your technology and Mr. Middleton's goal in its inception: to liberate mankind from banks and lawyers... wow. This is truly a goal worthy of knowledge, skill, passion, grit. Thus, I offer what I possess of these virtues to this goal.

Links

  1. Gist Response to _Opportunity

  2. Personal Github Project I Recently Started

  3. The above github project is running live here

  4. A blog where I post code occasionally

  5. LinkedIn

##Compensation

$35USD/hr

##Timezone: ###Eastern US (UTC -5:00)

Questions from Upwork Proposal Form

What questions do you have about the project?

  1. Ultra-coin, as a concept and a cause, seems truly world-changing with a multitude of positive aspects that even seem utopia-inducing. In fact, I'm not sure if I see much of a downside. However, I don't know as much as you all about the subject. Thus, I would like to know what challenges you see, if any, in the theory and application of Ultra-coin?
  2. From some light research, I am under the impression that the SHA-2 alogrithm was developed by the NSA. Do you know if this is true? If so, what, if any, positive/negative impacts do you see this having on bitcoin?
  3. Bitcoin, as tender, remains exotic (from my point-of-view). For Ultra-coin to truly challenge the existing legal, currency, banking structure, I believe nearly all consumers would have to adopt it. If you agree, how do you see this coming in to being? If not, how do you see the challenge to these structures materializing?

If we agree that we could work together in principle, then I'll have more nuts-and-bolts questions.

What challenging part of this job are you most experienced in?

The most challenging part of any job is understanding how to do that particular job well in each particular moment you are responsbile for that job.

I'm not partial to any language, structure, standards, etc and am highly driven to do the absolute best I can in everything I do. Moreover, I've held positions where I made lots of autonomous decisions and others where every line of code I wrote was specified and checked.

I explain these things to let you know that I expect change always and meet the challenge of each moment on its own terms.

#Thanks so much for your time!

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