Training Developers To Help Grow Bitcoin

Training Developers To Help Grow Bitcoin

The open source protocol loved by many enthusiasts, Bitcoin is something that anyone can interact with. It is getting some serious attention and bringing in participation in many different ways. For example, speculation is something that everyone can get on board as well as the investing and sending money side of things. The whole of Bitcoin’s repository is on BitHub which is inviting for many developers to see the leading cryptocurrency’s code and maybe even put forward suggestions to fix the current issues it has.

As reported by Nasdaq, talented developers are hard to come by though, so there isn’t a lot of choice for Bitcoin. The author of Programming Bitcoin and instructor at Programming Blockchain, Jimmy Song spoke to Bitcoin Magazine saying, "it's not an easy field to get into. Interestingly enough, the thing that makes Bitcoin hard to get started on is the cryptography, and that's hard because the math is not familiar to developers. Specifically, finite fields and elliptic curves."

On the other hand, there are some enthusiasts out there though that would argue that the small number of developers in Bitcoin today isn’t actually that small and that it is instead, the right size considering the industry is so new.

A core developer on Bitcoin and a Bitcoin engineer at Chaincode Labs, John Newbery spoke on the subject saying, "Bitcoin has only been around for 10 years, and it only started getting a lot of mainstream attention in 2017, so it hasn't been a long time to build up an ecosystem of developers. It's something that we hear a lot, that it is difficult to find experienced Bitcoin engineers … [Bitcoin] really only started getting mainstream attention two or three years ago, so it's as expected. We're doing everything we can at Chaincode to widen and deepen that pool."

One thing that is worth noting is that being realistic in this industry is important and that a complete understanding of cryptocurrency will never be truly reached. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t dream and hope for bigger things in the future.

Newbery goes onto say, "I don't think it's possible to understand all aspects of Bitcoin. The frontiers are continually being pushed forward so having 'proper education' that covers the entire Bitcoin space is a constantly moving target."

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