Building With Ethereum: Products, Protocols, and Platforms

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J. RumbelowBuilding With Ethereum https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9045-3_1

1. Introduction

Jamie Rumbelow¹  

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London, UK

 

Lots of attention in the Ethereum ecosystem is paid to smart contracts: how to write them well, how to design their mechanisms, and how to deploy and manage them safely. These are important tasks, but they only express the responsibilities of one role: the protocol engineer. There are other roles that are equally important, and, in this chapter, we’ll look at these roles and how their relative status may change. Understanding the role of the product engineer, especially, will help frame the rest of the book. We’ll also look at an important ...