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lightning dev50.0%
bitcoin dev50.0%
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This is a hypothetical that doesn’t need to be. Neither of these are unattainable
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With webln and all the api lately, it's really hard not being a LN dev. 😅
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Why not both?
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Lightning Dev.
Lightning is built on top of Bitcoin. So if you can actually develop the lightning protocol you have to pretty much fully understand the Bitcoin protocol. I'd rather I fully understood both.
(not the @anon who posted this)
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Bitcoin's value prop is non-changes; it works at scale today and has product-market fit.
Lightning is scaffolding for the bulk of Bitcoin "shell" development.
The answer is really neither, as shell development is the biggest need.
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I think you have to be both. If you don't know about developing Bitcoin, how can you be a Lightning dev, I think. But you can specialize in one.
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Why not both.
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Bitcoin is still Alpha so I will stick with it
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Lightning developer. Because I use the Lightning Network every day, so it will be nice to contribute towards something so intimately connected with my everyday life
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I would build better experience
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Lightning have more real world utility so I will be its dev
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That's like a chicken and egg situation. The best way is both.
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Bitcoin Dev would be wild
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