Bitcoin Core Devs Reach Out to Coders With Month-Long Coding Classes

Chaincode Labs developers Alex Morcos and Suhas Daftuar, and Blockstream developer Matt Corallo – three regular Bitcoin Core contributors – will organize a month-long Bitcoin coding class at the Chaincode Labs offices in New York starting September 12. During this ‘Bitcoin Hacker Residency,’ they will assist and mentor about half a dozen developers, with the goal of enabling them to contribute to Bitcoin on a protocol-level or to related projects such as FIBRE or the Lightning Network.
Bitcoin’s development community, and in particular the part of it that focuses on low-level protocol improvement, consists of a relatively small group of developers. Most of them work on Bitcoin Core, and they joined the project roughly between 2011 and 2013. Since then, not many newcomers have started contributing – with Morcos and Daftuar as some notable exceptions. Along with Corallo, they believe this is likely in part because the learning curve to contribute meaningfully has become quite steep.
Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine, Corallo explained:
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This post was published at Bitcoin Magazine on Aug 08, 2016.

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