Sister, are you staying up late to check the currency price again? “My roommate Xiaoting pushed open my door with milk in her hand.
As a backend engineer at a fintech company, I should have kept a distance from cryptocurrencies. But since I met Ali, my life trajectory has undergone an unexpected change.
He is the new blockchain architect in our company, nicknamed ‘Miner Manager’. The first time we met was at a code review meeting, and he hurried over with his hair a bit messy, like a programmer with a chicken coop. But when he started explaining the new architecture plan, his gaze was unusually firm.
The consensus mechanism of Bitcoin tells us that trust does not need to be built on a third-party basis… “He talked incessantly, but I noticed a sticky note on his keyboard:” Bugs trap me, I trap bugs.
What an interesting person.
In the later days, we often worked overtime together. His workstation is right across from mine, and every time I get stuck in the code, I can look up and see his focused profile. Sometimes we argue fiercely over technical solutions, but at the end of each argument, he always manages to convince me with data and logic.
Until late that Friday night. My code has a serious problem, and the entire server almost crashed. Just as I was about to collapse, he suddenly appeared behind me and asked, ‘Do you need any help?’
That was the first time we stayed up all night together. At four o’clock in the morning, when all the problems were finally solved, he suddenly said, “You know, in the first block of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote ‘The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on bridge of second bailout for banks’
“So what? “I yawned from exhaustion.
So, “he looked at me seriously,” sometimes even the most stable system can have problems, but there will always be people trying to create new possibilities. Just like you, who clearly don’t understand blockchain but are willing to understand and try
At that moment, my heart suddenly beat faster.
In the following days, I began to study blockchain seriously. Unconsciously, I found myself increasingly looking forward to the morning meetings every day, looking forward to discussing technical issues with him, and looking forward to every code pairing.
The transfer occurred during a system upgrade. Our plan had a disagreement, and during the argument, he suddenly said, “Would you be willing to convince me with experimental data
I spent a weekend writing a small testing framework and proved my point with data. On Monday morning, there was a new sticky note on his monitor: “You’re right, I’ll treat you to dinner
At dinner, he showed me his Bitcoin wallet and said, “This is the first Bitcoin I mined in college. I kept it all the time to remind myself that what I believe in must be persisted in
Well, “I said with a smile,” it’s like writing code. Seemingly impossible bugs can be solved by tuning them
“But, “he suddenly turned serious,” there’s” “something harder than fixing bugs”
“What”
“Tell you I like you”
Nowadays, our workstations are still facing each other, but there is an extra sticky note on my monitor: ‘Bugs and objects should be caught.’. And his sticky note reads: ‘I’ve caught it.’. “
