Originally posted on Yours.org on July 6, 2018.

95 of #100DaysofSatoshiDoodles

Short version:This doodle features: a guy with a wheelbarrow full of degrees, Dr. Adam Back (CEO of Blockstream), and a couple of very smart “Ph.D. dropouts” that I happen to follow for their Bitcoin-themed blogging and YouTube channels:

  • Lokad TV, featuring Joannes Vermorel and an interviewer who never introduces himself by name? (Full disclosure: I don’t understand everything that is discussed but what the heck, I need something to listen to while I draw, and am trying to learn new things!)
  • Ryan X. Charles

Much longer version:So this tweet caught my eye this morning:

While it is obvious that no Ph.D. is required to participate in Bitcoin, the rest of the tweet from @mir_btc clearly supports the constantly propagated narrative that Bitcoin Core developers are “the smartest guys in the room”:

The other piece of the tweet is that users are the ones who control Bitcoin. But first they must trust the “expert” Core developers (some of whom may have Ph.D.s) and run so-called full nodes in order to verify, not trust. Raspberry pi(e)s for all!Continuing down the rabbit hole, we get to here:

You can find some sound thinking on Derek Magill’s twitter around the importance (or non-importance) of credentials such as degrees. He is the founder of the Nakamoto Studies Institute (a hard fork of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute), a college dropout, and Director of Marketing at Praxis. Actions and self-study can speak louder than degrees. Just ask Roger Ver who is another accomplished college dropout, as I discovered just today in this recent gem, and Austrian economics expert.If there’s anyone who deserves an honorary doctorate in Bitcoin, it’s Roger.I’m still not quite sure how the little girl ended up on her own soapbox. Somehow, she did it without going to art school. 😉