On a side note, in my experience engineers are a different breed from most. Because the profession requires that at the end of the day, a working product must be delivered or a problem solved, engineers are forced to embrace physical laws and reality quickly and much more often compared to most others. This tends to, but not always, bleed into their lives outside of work, making them less likely to swallow blue pills and more likely to call a spade a spade. This makes us somewhat of a black sheep in the flock, because we dont fall for the same bullshit as the others, and the others resent us for it.

Engineers on the other hand have been a very welcoming bunch. You can ask them any question you like, as long as you dont disrespect them by asking them the same question ever again. They also tend to despise incompetence. For my sins, many moons ago we were working shifts around the clock, and we were collecting ferromagnetic data under an array of different conditions. Before the next shift came on, in my mental haze I wrote on the white board for them to collect data that in most other cases was routine but in this case fucking impossible.

While sipping my coffee before my shift, I realized the idiocy of what I wrote down, and the first thing I did when arriving on site was to rush to the board and erase it. But it was too late. When I turned around, everyone was looking at me with a shit eating grin and they called me out. I still get ribbed about it to this day, and the only thing that saved my ass was realizing the error before anyone had to tell me. We all had a story like that.

Every morning now I´m almost expecting to see my insect legs waving in the air.

Unless somebody figures out how to hack the blockchain, it´s pretty much the first ever devised currency whose creation is mathematically protected from tampering. Like the criminal “money printing” the FED, ECB and other central banks currently engage in.
And the most important part is that it´s decentralized.
Sure it´s not perfect and there´s fraud and theft. But every time there´s a fuckup people learn from it and harden the whole system against it.

Pretty much the exact opposite from the “real money” world.
When was the last time a bank robbery lead to several banks initiating a concerted effort to improve security?
How often has online banking been proven as immensely hackable and the evidence so throughly ignored?
How often have “respectable banks” been caught money laundering for the big drug-cartels now?