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May 19, 2024, 06:31:38 PM
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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.
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There is no need for that.

The developers have been doing what they can as they're not paid with it but, the contribution that they've been doing is incomparable to our suggestions.

You can start doing what you are suggesting about going to remote areas and try to introduce it with those people.

We need more contributors.
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May 19, 2024, 06:24:04 PM
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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.

Why even stress yourself responding to such a person who uses ChatGPT to generate texts and responses?
By just looking at the sentence he made, I can tell he just used ChatGPT but then decided to copy and paste one sentence thinking that it will go unnoticed

I don't think he will even read the replies and get back to respond with any thoughts out of his independent mind
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May 19, 2024, 05:42:58 PM
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What's wrong if we get in more new Bitcoin developers? Since Bitcoin is expanding more and more, we may need more Bitcoin developers. Since Bitcoin is open source, anyone can contribute to the network. Anyone can learn and become a bitcoin developer. They can contribute to improving the Bitcoin experience. Though they can't add anything to the code or rewrite the code, they might solve some issues. For example, the Bitcoin lightning network helps reduce fees and facilitate fast transactions. That's how we may find a new solution every time.

I don't know if there's an active fund that incentivizes new developers to contribute directly to Bitcoin aside from core Bitcoin developers? I don't mean Bitcoin L2s, Runes or any of those ordinals stuff. Except hard core devs, most new developers will prefer to develop smaller projects instead that can benefit from short term hype to rake them some money.

Another reason is that, most developers won't contribute because most changes will have to go through rigorous concensus processes.

This site is https://brink.dev/donate - is supporting bitcoin developers thru their grants. I don't know about new developers. But I believe, there are other sites trying to help these existing developers. After all, they are maintaining the btc network and other related aspects of it. They need to focus on their works, hence, they need funding as getting out from their pockets is quite hard for them.

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May 19, 2024, 05:34:30 PM
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What's wrong if we get in more new Bitcoin developers? Since Bitcoin is expanding more and more, we may need more Bitcoin developers. Since Bitcoin is open source, anyone can contribute to the network. Anyone can learn and become a bitcoin developer. They can contribute to improving the Bitcoin experience. Though they can't add anything to the code or rewrite the code, they might solve some issues. For example, the Bitcoin lightning network helps reduce fees and facilitate fast transactions. That's how we may find a new solution every time. 

I don't know if there's an active fund that incentivizes new developers to contribute directly to Bitcoin aside from core Bitcoin developers? I don't mean Bitcoin L2s, Runes or any of those ordinals stuff. Except hard core devs, most new developers will prefer to develop smaller projects instead that can benefit from short term hype to rake them some money.

Another reason is that, most developers won't contribute because most changes will have to go through rigorous concensus processes.

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May 19, 2024, 05:13:25 PM
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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?
You sound like they are paid with salary and employed by "Bitcoin company" they are just volunteers, asking them to this and that requires shameful behaviour unless you actually pay them.

It is true, bitcoin developers have being increasing over the years but with recent happenings, don't you think bitcoin need more developers?
Numbers doesn't matter as long there is a developer remains to maintain the code, bitcoin developers are just comes in and out for their own reasons as they are just volunteers, and not paid, until someone sponsor them for their contributions or some company just hired them to continue their contribution in bitcoin development.

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.
This is not the developers problem anymore. They don't just go out then teach anyone else who is interested. They are the pillars of the development, while sharing the information is for the communities backed by different business, volunteers, etc.
Again don't be confused, developers are for bitcoin development and the rrst are for communities. Well, sometimes there are developers who have huge influence do this, either can be seen in conferences, YT videos snd other platforms, but don't expect too much for them because most of them are introverts — only good in communicating by chats, while have different personality in persons or video chats.
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May 19, 2024, 03:55:02 PM
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What's wrong if we get in more new Bitcoin developers? Since Bitcoin is expanding more and more, we may need more Bitcoin developers. Since Bitcoin is open source, anyone can contribute to the network. Anyone can learn and become a bitcoin developer. They can contribute to improving the Bitcoin experience. Though they can't add anything to the code or rewrite the code, they might solve some issues. For example, the Bitcoin lightning network helps reduce fees and facilitate fast transactions. That's how we may find a new solution every time. 
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May 19, 2024, 03:37:08 PM
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This is quite a nice question Op. Now my reason for saying so is quite simple. If you come to think of it, Bitcoin is a decentralized crypto currency and for decentralization to be effective , there should be no sort of primary center of control rather the control or rules should be made by a majority idea not a single unit. In the case of Bitcoin the users, developers,and miners are in full control over the entire Blockchain system except core protocols like the base code of Bitcoin.
Therefore in my opinion I believe more developers would be nice for the Blockchain since that would mean more people sharing the total collective power of decision making on the block chain.

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.

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.

This is one of the more reasons having more developers would be nice. Just like the 51% rule, it would be easier for developers to protect and monitor the block chain properly with a larger magnitude of collective efforts.
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May 19, 2024, 03:34:48 PM
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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.
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May 19, 2024, 01:18:56 PM
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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?
If you want spread a word about Bitcoin in areas where they have not heard about it, you don't need a developer to spread it. You only need a educated person, who might not even know the technicalities of the blockchain. Speaking of adoption rate, security, and privacy, and keeping these requirements in mind, I don't think we need more developers, we only need some good and loyal developers to the BTC. Who really cares about the true nature of the BTC and don't want to change it.

They might be playing with privacy issues, and as we know due to the approval of ETFs governments are taking more interest in the crypto sphere, and trying hard to provide proper anonymity to the BTC users. So I think if government is against privacy in BTC finance then we can't do anything but adopt proper methods in place
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May 19, 2024, 01:00:58 PM
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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.
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May 19, 2024, 12:13:02 PM
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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.
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May 19, 2024, 12:05:45 PM
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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?
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