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strangely enough there are a million people who know about this project and 1-2 actually participate. it's a wiki and opensource project, so everyone in the wor
by bachback 13y ago
strangely enough there are a million people who know about this project and 1-2 actually participate. it's a wiki and opensource project, so everyone in the world is free to contribute. same with bitcoin. roughly 5 active developers at the moment, working mostly in their spare time.
- wcoenen 13y agoLook at the list of contributors at the end of the release notes of the upcoming 0.9.0 release of the bitcoin reference client[1]. Or look at the activity of other projects, e.g. the bitcoinj google group[2]. There's a lot more than 5 people working on bitcoin. [1] https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/test/README.txt https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/test/README.txt [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/bitcoinj https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/bitcoinj
- bachback 13y agothe number of people contributing is extremely small compared to the people who know about it/make money of it/are enthusiastic about it/could contribute. There is not a deep bench of developers. Many open issues which don't get solved because the 3-4 main devs (laanjw, sipa, gavin) are to busy. look at coinbase: they get rich of it, take 1% fees and add nothing back whatsoever.