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>>52734201
probably the hackathon and developer workshops where it basically reinforced my decision to become a Smart contract developer. I got a contact to apply to a company... but I still haven't applied due to not feeling ready yet.

In terms of the conference itself, while we got some sweet announcements, like the BUILD program, and the FSS and DECO demos, the more interesting parts are the conversations you get to have with other folks in the industry. I did get a chance to talk to both Sergey and Steve. Holy cow it was something.

Sergey in particular caught me off guard as I went up to him to tell him I've been following the company since 2018 and ask him if he could write an article on how found out about Smart contracts, to which he replied he had been working on the problem a long time, that when you work on a problem for so long, you end up seeing the solution. He asked me to confirm if I understood what he was talking about but I was mulling over for a second on what he said because I didn't know if he was dodging my question or not. Then he asked me, which completely caught me off guard if I found my passion yet. I've been trying to figure out what to do with my life for decades so I kinda was shocked and questioned in my head if Sergey was just that extraordinarily perceptive or he got lucky.

With Steve, it was way more straightforward. Told him an anonymous was tracking his company's every movements for years (he gave a positive not so creeped out response to that), and I formulated my question properly to being "What were you guys' first encounter with smart contracts" to which he told me they were working initially on the Bitcoin blockchain and that's when it hit me that people like Sergey, Steve, Vitalik, and the like, they were all originally disgruntled bitcoin maximalists. A really stupid realization I should have had already. Unfortunately our conversation got cut short since security was ushering everyone off the premises.