John Newbery on Building a Bitcoin Developer Community

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Location: New York
Date: Friday, 26th July
Project: Chaincode Labs
Role: Bitcoin Engineer

As an open source initiative, Bitcoin does not have a central fund to pay developers. Instead, it relies on a community of committed devs and a core group of companies and Bitcoin philanthropists to fund them. One of the companies leading the way in providing a platform for these developers is Chaincode Labs.

Every year, Chaincode Labs runs a Hackers Residency which allows people from all around the world to come to New York, connect with developers and work on Bitcoin.

In 2016, John Newbury quit his job in telecoms and took a spot on Chaincode Labs first residency. Following a successful four weeks, he was hired to work full time as a Bitcoin Developer at Chaincode. Since then John has dedicated his time to working on the Bitcoin Protocol, Lightning and building a community for Bitcoin developers by running the residency program for Chaincode.

In this interview, John explains what it is like working on the Bitcoin protocol and with other core devs, the risks of a reducing block subsidy for miners, privacy and development on the Lightning network.

Bonus: I also hear from 3 of the current residents on the Chaincode program. They tell me about their diverse backgrounds, how they ended up in New York, and what they will be working on once the residency is over.

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Connect with John:
- On Twitter @jfnewbury
- On Medium
- On Github
- On LinkedIn

Connect with Chaincode Labs:
- On Twitter @ChaincodeLabs
- Their Website

Mentioned in the interview:
- Bitcoin PR Review Club
- Bitcoin Optech
- Bitcoin Core Github
- Lightning Network Github
- Lightning Labs
- Chaincode Residency Program
- Schnorr Signatures
- Taproot
- Square Crypto
- Bitrefill
- satoshis.place
- Don’t Make Me Think (Book)

Other relevant WBD podcasts:
- WBD132: Pieter Wuille on Building Bitcoin
- WBD123: Tadge Dryja on Scaling Bitcoin With Utreexo
- WBD110: Andrew Poelstra on Schnorr, Taproot & Graft Root Coming to Bitcoin
- WBD109: Luke Dashjr on 300k Blocks and Full Nodes
- WBD107: Daniel Buchner on Why Microsoft is Building Decentralised IDs on Bitcoin
- WBD106: Bitcoin Block Reorgs Explained with Adam Back and Bryan Bishop
- WBD087: Erik Voorhees on Maximalism, KYC & Shoddy Reporting
- WBD085: Andrew Poelstra on Bitcoin Math & Research
- WBD074: How Bitcoin Works with Matt Corallo
- WBD057: Core Developer Bryan Bishop on Building Bitcoin
- WBD047: Adam Back on a Decade of Bitcoin

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