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I was directed to this tweet, and specifically this photo, yesterday. I replied that it’s easy for many of us #Bitcoin-ers to forget this is even a thing. Clearly, it is—to the point they can pack a room full of developers.

There are successful, nationwide BitDevs at places like #[1] and Bitcoin Commons. This is great. But I’ve never seen a room this full of Bitcoin builders.

Genuine question: why, and assuming we want it, what’s missing?

https://twitter.com/wuehler/status/1647096620733943808

nobody 2y ago

Other chains are way easier to interact with - for example a FE dev like myself can develop so much faster on other chains.

Saying that - that also adds a lot more vulnerability and attack surfaces where things can go wrong imo.

So oddly to interact with Bitcoin well you need a lot built around it to interact with the protocol which in a way safeguards the protocol itself.

The simplicity pulls in a lot more devs to want to start hacking on stuff. I don’t think they think about the core sound money offering of bitcoin but see these blockchains, ETH in this case, as a set of APIs to interact with.

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Shawn 2y ago

This is what I want to better understand: what about other chains makes it easier for, say, a frontend dev to dive in? Which bits do you see as missing from the Bitcoin stack?

nobody 2y ago

I will get back to you on this one.

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