>>12952955Let's stop beating around the bush OP, your hiring a distributed systems or cryptography related role. Yes, its a complex, arcane space. Quite frankly a comp sci graduate could pretend to work for alot more at nearby firms where you work, a nice front line ticket to a react job at a silicon valley dev salary. No, to do this work, you need raw passion, the type found in the bowels of the cypherpunk movemnt.
Your candidate probably like many others, felt something in his core that something was amiss in the world, and in his hunt to apply himself to solutions, found your space.
He fought the jargon alone in his basement, reflected on some of societies longest standing questions, pondered the fundemental nature of information, If he was teleported back in time to Claude Shannon, he'd mistake him a wizard.
Hire him, he's going to stick out in ways you dont expect, but he's going to excell in ways you cant predict either
