Level 0: Novice4.8%
Level 1: Advanced Beginner11.9%
Level 3: Competent42.9%
Level 4: Proficient33.3%
Level 5: Expert7.1%
42 votes \ poll ended
324 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 2 May 2023
I would say I am barely competent on the technical aspects of Bitcoin but I am proficient on understanding the monetary side of things. Only 6.5 years to get to this point. Haha.
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252 sats \ 5 replies \ @kilianbuhn 2 May 2023
Anyone who has never calculated/proven the axioms of elliptic curves to be a group with pen&paper shouldn't vote 3 or above 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Anyone who didn't know about repo & reverse repo before the gfc (2007 or before) shouldn't vote 3 or above 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @tomlaies 2 May 2023
100% agreed with the first. Too many people just want to argue on Twitter. Too few people actually want to learn basics of cryptography (and math here).
Having opinions and soft skills is easy. Lack of a minimum of hard skills is a good indicator for disregarding irrelevant normies.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek OP 2 May 2023
-- physics professor in a undergraduate course I took (not verbatim)
That quote really stuck with me
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 2 May 2023
I don't think this is true for cryptography. At least nothing comes to mind thinking about it rn.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 2 May 2023
I think this quote was not meant super serious.
However, I think it has some truth to it which can be applied everywhere:
For example, just by asking simple questions (what is the block size of bitcoin? how is the 21M limit enforced?) you can easily dismiss people who want to argue about bitcoin but don't know the answers to these questions.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joda 3 May 2023
There are people with those qualifications who are 100% shitcoin.
doesn't disprove your point; just sayin'
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37 sats \ 0 replies \ @kenn_b 2 May 2023
I am level 2 ;)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 2 May 2023
I would consider myself to be Level 3: Competent
edit: Oh I forgot level 2 and can't change now. Can only edit descriptions. Oh well, haha
Btw, I got these levels from https://icombine.net/knowledge-base/skill-levels
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @faradayfedora 2 May 2023
-1 ignorant user
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Murch 2 May 2023
I voted “Level 4: proficient”. Pretty solid understanding of the technical underpinnings, perhaps an expert in some subareas, advanced beginner or competent in some other areas. I know a bunch about some things, know where to look up some other things or who to ask, and yet still feel like there is always another thing I’m ignorant about in another aspect of the space.
Bitcoin is a bit too broad to have “deep tacit understanding” across all of it in only a bit over a decade. ;)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 2 May 2023
PLEB
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 2 May 2023
Bitcoin is too broad and touches too many topics. I think your poll should be more specific. Level of expertise in what topic regarding bitcoin? Tools and products in the space? How to use it? Core development? On chain? Lightning? Economics? Social aspects? Philosophy? Etc etc. You probably get what I mean.
That said, I voted advance beginner for myself. Bitcoin is so broad and each topic can go so deep that the more I learn about it, the more ignorant I feel…
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JonnyRico 2 May 2023
I’m somewhere between 1 and 3. Definitely not a two tho…
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