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Keep in mind, eth was marketed as any Javascript dev can be a bloc dev. It is meant to be super easy to get going whereas bitcoin has a much steeper learning curve. Bitcoin also isn't meant to do everything under the sun (for good reason) and that excludes some people who want to do X and don't care where they do it.

I think bitcoin and lightning are definitely getting closer tho. The guys at #[3] have their own course that makes it really easy to get started and we're getting more devs all the time. Tools like LN Bits have made it a lot easier and new tools like it are coming out all the time ( #[4] 😉). Hopefully one day we will be there but it is definitely an uphill battle.

buck 2y ago

Maybe a good parallel is that a JavaScript conference is probably going to be more full than a Linux one. It probably shouldn’t even be a goal for bitcoin to aim to be like the former. Events like btc++ and TABConf imo are generally the right size to also maintain quality for this reason. Scaling Bitcoin had this vibe too. Much smaller but every talk just had my head hurting from the density of info.

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Shawn 2y ago

Thanks, Buck. Good points. Would you say the same applies to new devs, say who might otherwise drift toward eth, solana, etc? Could we ever have too many?

buck 2y ago

I wouldn’t say you can have too many but you don’t want to aim for the lowest common denominator either. That said, I think there are things we can do to attract quality devs/engineers too.

Jeremy Rubin had a good post on this a couple years ago: https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/14/advent-17/

Shawn 2y ago

Queued up to read. Thanks again.