The daily life of a person working in Blockchain, Crypto and DLT

8 am — Wake up — Check CoinMarketCap — Everything in red — “I should buy today”

9 am — Start writing technical document for a client’s groundbreaking, earth-shattering, never-before, highly centralized crypto-exchange

9:15 am — Complete one paragraph — People around start talking about Ripple and XRP — Join conversation — Argue until victory is achieved.

10:30 am — Get back to writing — EOS price starts crashing — Time to buy — Open Binance app — Everything in red — “Not yet” — Close Binance app — Start writing again.

11:00 am — Finished writing one page — Boss calls in for a meeting — Requirement changed! — Client wants decentralized fish token marketplace — Throws away all the work.

11:15 am — Need to research about fish tokens — Search on Google — Open CoinDesk article about “Supply chain tracking of tuna on IBM Hyperledger.” — Start researching IBM Hyperledger — Too complicated — Start watching tutorial videos — Give up — Get back to writing

12 pm — LUNCH! Tuna sandwich with crypto colleagues. Discuss prices, dwindling portfolio valuations, hail crypto, and bash traditional financial systems in a noisy restaurant full of bankers and government officials

1:30 pm — Continue writing — EOS at all time low — Time to buy — Open Binance app — Not enough Bitcoin to buy — Close Binance app — Continue writing

2 pm — Finished writing one-page — Requirements changed! — Client wants Fish ICO — Throw away everything — Start figuring out token economics — Write first line of whitepaper

3 pm — Go to youtube for guidance — Get distracted — Start watching videos about Ouroboros proof of stake in Cardano — Fall asleep watching video

3:15 pm — Wake up to 15 LinkedIn message invitations to the mega Blockchain event — BLOCK(‘insert random noun’) (‘insert present year’) (‘insert expensive slogan’) where ticket prices start from $5000 for (‘insert cheap metal name’) sponsorship and an 80% discount with promo code SLIGHTLYSKETCHY123

5 pm — Pointlessly float through LinkedIn — Then Medium — Then Hackernoon — Then Reddit — “Blockchain is the future!” — “ICO Moons!” — “Airdrops!” — “When LAMBO?!” — “Decentralized Uber for laundry!” — “250,000 transactions per second!” — “SCAM” — “CRASH” — “HACK” — “SCALING” — “JP MORGAN” — “BUBBLE” — “Blockchain is a lie!”

7 pm — Close laptop — Topup Bitcoin in Binance — Go home

9 pm — More Youtube — More news — More fancy infographics — More LinkedIn bashing — More whitepapers, yellow papers, orange papers — Suddenly recall EOS crashing

10 pm — Open Binance — EOS goes to the MOON — 90% in last 2 hours — Go to sleep in sadness

P.S: Well this article does not completely reflect my daily life. However, just in case you’re in the market for a decentralized fish token solution, feel free to reach out to me here, and maybe I can tell you why you probably don’t need one.