Topic: Redecentralization: building a robust cryptocurrency developer network - page 2. (Read 1600 times)
January 24, 2014, 12:31:59 AM
Maybe let's make it a more concrete proposal: fundraising and headhunting for the development of a client with a entirely new codebase.
January 23, 2014, 07:18:34 PM
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January 23, 2014, 07:08:26 PM
https://blog.conformal.com/redecentralization-robust-developer-network/
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As it was originally proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin was conceived of as a peer-to-peer system that was fundamentally decentralized. Many past and current discussions about the future of Bitcoin acknowledge that too much centralization is a threat to the Bitcoin network. To some extent this process of avoiding centralization has been successful, but in several key areas it has not been very successful and it is in need of redecentralization. The most pressing case for redecentralization in Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies more generally) is the current development community:
the number of developers who have experience developing cryptocurrencies is very low, I would estimate there are less than 100 such developers
the majority of the developers are located in the US and other “Western” nations
the developer incentive structure with successful cryptocurrencies creates conflicts of interest
In what follows, I propose solutions to these issues cited above. Since we develop our own full-node Bitcoin implementation, btcd, the criticism of the developer community status quo that follows applies not only to other developers, but also our developers who work on btcd.
the number of developers who have experience developing cryptocurrencies is very low, I would estimate there are less than 100 such developers
the majority of the developers are located in the US and other “Western” nations
the developer incentive structure with successful cryptocurrencies creates conflicts of interest
In what follows, I propose solutions to these issues cited above. Since we develop our own full-node Bitcoin implementation, btcd, the criticism of the developer community status quo that follows applies not only to other developers, but also our developers who work on btcd.
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