Does bitcoin need more developers?

[God bless u]

Bitcoin developers are ones which with the aid of proper education, training, research and practical work have helped in improving their skills and knowledge about bitcoin resulting to quality contribution to the bitcoin ecosystem, making it fast and efficient.
It is true, bitcoin developers have being increasing over the years but with recent happenings, don't you think bitcoin need more developers?

With the rapid adoption of bitcoin around the world where by some countries now uses bitcoin as a legal tender, companies and some other stores or shop now also uses bitcoin as a means of payment and concerning creating awareness or educating new users, I think the need for more developers should be considered.

Everyday more people are coming in, more hands are needed on security and privacy of bitcoin transactions, assurance of  the primary nature of bitcoin as a decentralized asset, wallet development and educating now users.
I think they should be sent in badges to areas where bitcoin haven't been heard or where their is no knowledge about digital gadgets or have access to the internet.
Am always open to learn and to take corrections.
what are your opinions?

Why not nothing in this world is perfect, BTC also has loop wholes that needs to be identified and filled. If the current team would be capable enough of doing so they would have done it, but its not done till now.

So new developer's can step in and advise some good strategies that can help to control the volatility of the BTC and to increase the return on investments. It's always advised to hire more skilled and we'll polished developers

[Apocollapse]

Anyone who interested with Bitcoin can know what are the problem that happens in Bitcoin, so if there's a developer can give an idea or insight to solve the problem, they can just post into forum or github.

While you're asking to hire more developers when there's nothing need to do, why need to add more unnecessary thing?

If the problem is really important and affect a lot people, I'm sure there will be many developers join to fix it.

[thecodebear]

Bitcoin development is very complicated and technical. I would think it takes a long time for someone to gain the requisite skills, even after they are already a software developer, to be able to contribute to Bitcoin in any meaningful way. You need to have a strong knowledge of security, cryptography, networks, and other stuff, as well of course as of course learning the huge Bitcoin codebase. It is a big undertaking and since its open source development its not like there are a bunch of companies hiring people for high paying jobs to work directly on Bitcoin.


But yeah Bitcoin could definitely use more developers I think, and especially in the L2 solutions area. Not only do we need LN improved in the years to come, but we need other L2 protocols developed that have different pros and cons than LN.

So yeah Bitcoin could use more highly experienced developers. I've sometimes thought of getting into Bitcoin dev but it just seems like a huge amount of work to get to the point where I could even start understanding the code...and I'm lazy haha

[Casdinyard]

More developers does not equate more progress. I've seen AAA gaming companies stagnate and lose the public's favors and good graces all because of their key opinion leaders not doing anything about the situation and the current state of their particular market. The same could be said for cryptocurrencies, bitcoin included.

If you're most concerned about bitcoin's high transaction fees, and the tendency for the coin to have late transactions you have Satoshi's oversight of not adding enough zeroes in it lol. Cause block size has been a massive debate in this industry for years now and no one's relenting, thinking they are both correct, and that's true.

On one hand we have the purists who think block sizes shouldn't be any higher than 1 mb, thinking increasing this would stop bitcoin from being secure and decentralized as a whole, effectively killing the main selling point of bitcoin in the first place, on the other hand, we have people who want to increase it, because the transaction fees are unbearable, and so are the wait times.

The developers aren't doing anything about it because they are at a stalemate, no amount of new devs is going to solve this.

[Dzwaafu11]

Bitcoin developers are ones which with the aid of proper education, training, research and practical work have helped in improving their skills and knowledge about bitcoin resulting to quality contribution to the bitcoin ecosystem, making it fast and efficient.
It is true, bitcoin developers have being increasing over the years but with recent happenings, don't you think bitcoin need more developers?

Though. In this world, nobody is perfect, and for things to be done perfectly, we need to implement the method of teamwork, so to me, I believe that since with the current adoption of bitcoin, there are still some faults and some things that need improvement in the bitcoin ecosystem, I think if there are more developers, perhaps they will be resolved. But one of the reasons why some developers will not want to work in the Bitcoin ecosystem is that bitcoin is technically large and only cyber knowledge can make them work perfectly in this profession. They need to learn cryptography and some other skills here before they can be able to solve issues in the Bitcoin ecosystem. 

With the rapid adoption of bitcoin around the world where by some countries now uses bitcoin as a legal tender, companies and some other stores or shop now also uses bitcoin as a means of payment and concerning creating awareness or educating new users, I think the need for more developers should be considered.

I think this is why the community is open place where everyone can bring up their own idea or create something new that they feel it will make more sense give more freedom financially as the way the currency was created from the first place. So developer can come in and develop something, and showcase their talent, their people that will use it and see if such thing will provide positive results and benefits to the people. But if it will not, they will go against it and warn people to avoid such thing.

[royalfestus]

If there are more people willing to join the team of developers, then they are free to join, after all, the code is open source.
 

The recent developments in Bitcoin highlight the need for more developers. However, the space must ensure adequate security while welcoming new participants. The most critical challenge remains protecting the team from hackers.

Is it the work of the team to protect other teams from being hacked, or do they focus on the main development of the Bitcoin network, detect and fix bugs, and also improve the protocol where necessary? If there is anything that needs to be protected from hacking, it's the Bitcoin network itself and not the team involved.

Maybe I didn't phrase it clearly in my previous post, but I meant that the current team should be cautious about who they allow in. Many cryptocurrency projects have been hacked by insiders who were carelessly brought in. Once they saw the opportunity and the funds they could access, their greed took over.

[bSpend]

Like I believe some other users must have mentioned, bitcoin as a network is completely decentralized, which translate to the fact that no one runs or controls the network, and as a result, developers who want or wish to contribute in securing the bitcoin network have to do voluntarily on their own, which means, there is no one available to hire or them, they get paid from fees collected from bitcoin transactions on the network, and also for mining blocks (for bitcoin miners), and also, it's important to know that to become a contributor in the bitcoin network, one need to own some high end machines, which actually is very expensive for most people to afford.

I for example would have loved to atleast, run my own bitcoin node, but right now, I can't afford the type of machine required to do it successfully.

[Wexnident]

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That's the thing I'd say with Bitcoin, it doesn't cater itself to others instead others have to cater to it themselves. I wouldn't say there's any disadvantage to it, but it naturally uphelds its own advantage and the key aspect that it has held on its own since it started, decentralization.

As for actually letting other people learn about Bitcoin, there's no need for devs to know about it nor for regular people to know the dev-ish stuff about it. If they want to they can learn, but if not and if you wanted to spread knowledge about it, anyone with above surface level knowledge could do it.

[goldkingcoiner]

It is not something that is "owned" by the current devs. Nor is Bitcoin something that devs can control. It is 100% open source and community driven.

Bitcoin developers are just regular people. Anyone can become a Bitcoin dev, if you prove that you can improve Bitcoin and impress the Bitcoin community by doing so... Then you get to be part of Bitcoin history! Yay!

Being a dev is not a job position at some company, though. (although devs get hired by big names - they are basically just hired influencers with actual skills)

[btc78]

Bitcoin developers are ones which with the aid of proper education, training, research and practical work have helped in improving their skills and knowledge about bitcoin resulting to quality contribution to the bitcoin ecosystem, making it fast and efficient.
It is true, bitcoin developers have being increasing over the years but with recent happenings, don't you think bitcoin need more developers?

If you mean by recent happenings being more adoption and more complicated issues then yes I think more developers are necessary. Not only in quantity but also in quality. Bitcoin is growing more and more each year and we need to constantly develop bitcoin to keep up with the number of investors and users.

I have no doubt many would emerge as developers of bitcoin as kids nowadays are much more interested in bitcoin and tries to pursue careers in development.

I think they should be sent in badges to areas where bitcoin haven't been heard or where their is no knowledge about digital gadgets or have access to the internet.

Sure but this will prove to be a challenge. Logistically speaking and not to mention the financing part. This will be complicated but with a lot of planning and organizing then it can be arranged.

[khalidkhan82118]

Since Bitcoin is complete decentralized, Bitcoin needs a lot of developers to contribute for solving issues and improving the current feature to meet the increasing demand. This why Bitcoin is an open source to become open for collaboration with other developers since Satoshi is already out of the picture.

But right now, Most of the development notably Ordinals and Runes makes Bitcoin like the other Blockchain flooded by shitcoins that spam the mempool due to the hype. This kind of upgrade? creates chaos to Bitcoin.

We need more developers with Satoshi vision and not those shitcoin visionaries that want to apply shitcoin feature on Bitcoin.

How do you think the Bitcoin community can ensure that future developments stay true to Satoshi's vision while addressing scalability and usability challenges? And what specific features or improvements do you believe are essential for Bitcoin's long-term success?

[peter0425]

Since Bitcoin is complete decentralized, Bitcoin needs a lot of developers to contribute for solving issues and improving the current feature to meet the increasing demand. This why Bitcoin is an open source to become open for collaboration with other developers since Satoshi is already out of the picture.

But right now, Most of the development notably Ordinals and Runes makes Bitcoin like the other Blockchain flooded by shitcoins that spam the mempool due to the hype. This kind of upgrade? creates chaos to Bitcoin.

We need more developers with Satoshi vision and not those shitcoin visionaries that want to apply shitcoin feature on Bitcoin.

How do you think the Bitcoin community can ensure that future developments stay true to Satoshi's vision while addressing scalability and usability challenges? And what specific features or improvements do you believe are essential for Bitcoin's long-term success?

There can be no confirmation that Satoshi’s vision is being implemented in recent developments of bitcoin unless he says it himself. Personally I think we might already be too far from what Satoshi has envisioned but then again I do not know Satoshi personally nor do I know any of his ideas.

Maybe the fact the he left is his way of saying that now doesn’t care what we make of his creation.