Will Bitcoin developers jump ship with the sudden high demand for Blockchain dev

[Kakmakr]

A lot of them are doing it during their spare time and as a hobby, without being paid. Not all are working for a blockchain company and they will surely continue if they're hired.
Bitcoin is something and the blockchain is something else. It's like asking will you continue to play football with the high demand for Mac Donald

Yea, sure.... but I have had some very bad experiences before when I hired a building contractor and these guys worked on 5 or 6 different projects at a time. When you have to split your time into several different projects, you might neglect the projects that does not pay you for your time.

Some employers also hire people with specific clauses in their contract that stipulate that they are not allowed to work on other projects that might be direct competition to the work that you do for them.    <Conflict of interest>

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Most of the bitcoin developers were early adopter of the tech and bitcoin. So they should probably be rich or should be more or less addicted to the technology behind it. This doesn't force the devs to move to a moneybag corporation aiming to destroy the bitcoin with less experienced developers. I was reading through a post of achow in the tech discussion highlighting the current situation of the bitcoin development. The current state of developers are people having  10 years of hands on experience in bitcoin. So any developer who helps the community for around 5-7 years would surely get on track with the development and would contribute more positively.

The major drawback with the development is that, there are lesser people who have a strong knowledge on technical aspects of the cryptocurrency and bitcoin technology. Still there are a handful of countries which doesn't even know about bitcoin but might have good developers with them. Once the technology reaches limelight and people start looking into the code (neglecting the get rich quick scheme idea), bitcoin doesn't want to just rely on only a handful of developers.

See this : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5164699.msg51804992#msg51804992

[jakelyson]

There is nothing wrong if they jump ship. If they feel that going into centralized blockchain is more beneficial to them then we cannot force them to stay. There is no lacking in developers anyway. I think those who are dedicated to bitcoin blockchain will stay and those who leave can be replaced with new developers.

[libert19]

Most of them are getting paid to do that work, so not really 'working for us'.

[yazher]

Most of these guys are there from the start, my advice for them is when you on the verge of giving up just remember why you start. the problem is we have something we want to do all the time so if Bitcoin is your passion even a thousand mimickers will appear you never gonna leave bitcoin even for a second.

as I say we have something we want but not all the time we can have what we want, so if some opportunity will come like hiring you to develop a company that supports to dethrone bitcoin. You will need to choose between your dream or to support someone we love. we all know that not all the time we have funds to spend, sometimes we need to earn something to support our financial need.

If some opportunity like that will come we cannot blame those guys if they want to switch to other companies because they caught between the 2 lines, and sometimes financial needs are most important.

[sheenshane]

There are too many developers out there and it will replace if there's someone left behind. The fact is we can't blame developers who accept another project from another blockchain company to develop I'm sure they do that just for money. And the developers of bitcoin are volunteer only they don't bring benefits because it is open source technology which technically they are working for free. Unless, if they also have part of a whale.

So, there's nothing to worry if some of them are jumping into another ship just for seeking more incentives in dollars which is we also need it. Remember that bitcoin core is open-source code and we had a bunch of developers out there who passionate to develop blockchain technology.

[Kyraishi]

Blockchain based technologies are suddenly a trend and every Tom, Dick and Harry wants it's company to develop their own Blockchain based technology. We also saw huge corporations like Facebook getting in on the action with Libra and this will spark copy cats from trying the same.

The question is, will our skilled Bitcoin developers abandon Bitcoin when these large companies approach them to work on their projects or would they stand firm against these money bags?

What will Bitcoin be without these people working hard behind the scenes to constantly improve and secure the technology for us all? 

Well, that's really more of a question that needs to be directed to each developer personally, then them as a whole. I am sure some developers will definitely be enticed by the big bucks companies like Facebook are able to offer, while some will definitely not do that.

I do reckon with all of this happening, we will see a lot more people getting into bitcoin development. Possible uni/school courses that are specific for Bitcoin and Blockchain based technology.