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'Blockchain Developer' is the Fastest-Growing US Job (venturebeat.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the market-demands dept.

"Blockchain developer" is the top emerging job in the U.S. -- according to data published in LinkedIn's 2018 U.S. Emerging Jobs report. From a report: [...] Using data gleaned from the LinkedIn Economic Graph, which serves as a "digital representation of the global economy" by analyzing the skills and job openings from across 590 million members and 30 million companies, LinkedIn found that "blockchain developers" has grown 33-fold in the past four years. In this case, "emerging jobs" refers to the growth of specific job titles on LinkedIn profiles in the period between 2014 and 2018. It's worth noting here that "blockchain" didn't appear anywhere in the top 20 emerging jobs in 2017, while "machine learning engineer" topped the list last year -- it's in second place this year.

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  1. And in another year.. by pak9rabid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And in another year, will be the fastest dying US job.

    1. Re:And in another year.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Blockchains are useful for certain things, but not the majority of the hyped products in development. There are simpler, cheaper, more reliable ways to do most things people are trying to shoehorn into blockchain. A block chain is just a signature verifiable log database with all of the issues a log database has plus limitations imposed by the verification requirements.

  2. "Fastest-growing" is the lamest marketing language by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I start something, and convert one other person to it, that's 100% growth in a day! Fastest-growing foo!
    And going from zero to one, that's an infinite growth rate!