Why Rajarshi Maitra quit his job to become Bitcoin’s newest full-time developer

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Quick Take

  • On May 19, Rajarshi Maitra announced that he was quitting his job to work on bitcoin full time.
  • In this interview, he explains what drew him in and what it felt like to have his first bit of code merged into bitcoin’s codebase.
This month, Rajarshi Maitra quit his structural engineering job to become a full-time bitcoin developer. We speak to him to find out more.
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