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Quote from: Kakmakr on July 03, 2019, 04:15:32 AM

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.

lets not confuse money grabbers and ICO scammers with everyone and actual trends that are going on in the real world. last time i checked the "real world" nobody was using the blockchain technology and majority of the experienced developers were considering it useless in anything but a decentralized currency like bitcoin.
here is a good case: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#blockchain-in-the-real-world

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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? Sad

the real question is "should it matter?".
if we believe bitcoin to be decentralized, it should never depend on a handful of developers. and it is not. there are many good developers familiar with Bitcoin protocol and have been contributing to advancement of it. if something happens to current developers (natural disasters, moving on to other things,...) they will simply be replaced.

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Quote from: Kakmakr on July 03, 2019, 04:37:10 AM

Quote from: jseverson on July 03, 2019, 04:24:58 AM

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Yes it is Opensource, but you get very talented developers and then you get crappy developers and the people participating now are excellent.

I'm not too worried. If the success of Bitcoin hinged on just a handful of people, then it's not nearly as decentralized as advertised. I'm very grateful to our developers and I acknowledge their hard work and talent, but they're meant to be replaceable. Heck, even Satoshi ghosted everyone and Bitcoin still thrived.

This model has worked about as well as it could for as long as it has existed, and I have no reason to believe Bitcoin would be any different.

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Quote from: hatshepsut93 on July 03, 2019, 07:06:36 AM

It's very possible that many of those contributors can be working or will work in the future in some blockchain-related projects.

Developers are people too, and they have their side projects they work on. It's perfectly fine considering that it doesn't lead to any problems at all, and it may be a great thing too because it makes you focus on other things.

I haven't seen many developers constantly working on one single thing. Just imagine yourself doing the same thing over at your job all the time, it would piss you off and you will go to your job unhappy.

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on July 03, 2019, 07:06:36 AM

If you mean that the most active developers will abandon Bitcoin for a blockchain job, I don't think it's likely to happen now, they seem to be very passionate about Bitcoin.

Exactly that. Some developers don't gain a single penny for their contributions-- the passion and the goal alone is already enough to keep developers dedicated to Bitcoin. Where else do you find that in crypto?

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"Bitcoin developers" is in fact a blanket term, Bitcoin is an open source project with hundreds of contributors. It's very possible that many of those contributors can be working or will work in the future in some blockchain-related projects. Blockstream is the biggest example that comes to mind. There's nothing wrong with that, people can still do both easily. If you mean that the most active developers will abandon Bitcoin for a blockchain job, I don't think it's likely to happen now, they seem to be very passionate about Bitcoin.

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Quote from: Kakmakr on July 03, 2019, 04:37:10 AM

Quote from: jseverson on July 03, 2019, 04:24:58 AM

Aren't a lot of them volunteers? I don't think they're in it for the money. Either way, it's still an open source project, meaning we shouldn't get a shortage of talent for as long as there are people who care for the well being of Bitcoin.

Yes it is Opensource, but you get very talented developers and then you get crappy developers and the people participating now are excellent. A lot of these people are doing this for the bigger cause and not the money, but we saw people like Mike Hearn leaving for the money and this can happen to the people we have now, if the offer is high enough.

We need people who are passionate about the cause and not people who would sabotage the project. Tongue

Examples like Mike will always be there in any industry whether it is related to finance or not. The sabotage attempt was a different story though!

But if a talented developer wants to leave his responsibility towards bitcoin code development for a fat package, we can't blame them either because money is needed in every segment of life! I would not wonder if more developers receive fat package offers from IT conglomerates. Retaining talents was always a challenge for open source projects where majority of the talents are working voluntarily.

But the way Bitcoin has retained its position as a top order open source project, it should never face any challenges to retain top talents! Reputation matters a lot of this market! Not everyone will want to loose that reputation of being involved in bitcoin core development team! So we will see a steady flow of developers to take on any vacant position that may occur!

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Quote from: jseverson on July 03, 2019, 04:24:58 AM

Aren't a lot of them volunteers? I don't think they're in it for the money. Either way, it's still an open source project, meaning we shouldn't get a shortage of talent for as long as there are people who care for the well being of Bitcoin.

Yes it is Opensource, but you get very talented developers and then you get crappy developers and the people participating now are excellent. A lot of these people are doing this for the bigger cause and not the money, but we saw people like Mike Hearn leaving for the money and this can happen to the people we have now, if the offer is high enough.

We need people who are passionate about the cause and not people who would sabotage the project. Tongue

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Aren't a lot of them volunteers? I don't think they're in it for the money. Either way, it's still an open source project, meaning we shouldn't get a shortage of talent for as long as there are people who care for the well being of Bitcoin.

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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? Sad

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