Imagine being 19 years old. You are still in high school, your future lies in front of you with all the confusion and noise of your teenage years. Google comes knocking at your door: they want to hire you for an internship, your first paycheck would say something like 7000€/month. What would you say? Would you accept?
Well, Daniela Brozzoni said no. Of course she did, otherwise we would not be here telling her Bitcoin story, right?
She was contacted directly by the recruiting department of Big G. It was April, and she hadn’t finished her last year of high school yet.At the time I was very involved in computer science and algorithm competitions, and a lot of the people around me were following a pretty standard path where Google was basically the dream. You leave your small town in Italy, move to some exciting big city, work in one of those beautiful offices you see online, and you've made it....read more at opensats.org
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She was in the same Chaincode group as me. Cool person.
Daniela Brozzoni welcomed me so hard to bitcoin FOSS on a party in Brazil; I’ll never forget it!!
Btw @Daniela is not her
fake SN account?
Yes
How can you be so sure?
I asked her. Anyone can put a link to someone’s blog in their bio.
Isn't this why open-source Bitcoin development matters?
Daniela’s story isn’t really about turning down a €7,000/month Google internship. It’s about choosing to spend her time understanding, reviewing, testing, and improving the software that people can independently verify and run themselves. OpenSats funding gave her the runway to keep learning and contributing to Bitcoin Core instead of having to leave the work.
And I especially like the part about contribution being more than writing code. Reviewing someone’s PR, finding a subtle bug, helping another developer get unstuck, teaching, documenting, and making the project a better place to contribute are all part of building Bitcoin.
The P2P privacy work is particularly interesting. Making it harder to correlate private and clearnet connections is exactly the kind of quiet, unglamorous work that can matter enormously over time.
Thanks for sharing :)